Amid A Drought, a Trove of WWII Relics Are Being Discovered Under Poland's Vistula River
On Tuesday, Jonny Daniels, the founder of From the Depths, a Jewish organization committed to preserving memories of the Holocaust, particularly in Eastern Europe, walked along the Vistula River in Warsaw, Poland, picking up pieces of stone with Hebrew lettering on it. “The Vistula River is hiding no end of secrets,” he told the AP. “They are everywhere… Jewish history is buried [here].”
A heat wave, combined with minimal rainfall, has caused a drought in Poland, forcing Vistula’s water levels (and those of its tributaries) to record lows not seen since the late 18th century. As a result, a number of relics from WWII, including the remains of Soviet fighter planes and their pilots, as well as Jewish tombstones.