A couple living in Budapest,Hungary, decided to renovate their apartment, and hired workers to collect the job done. One of them took a screwdriver to their walls and discovered papers with handwriting on it. “We thought we’d ruined the neighbor’s wallpaper,” Brigitte Berdefy, one of the owners of the apartment, and told the AFP. But it was so much more: 6300 documents “from a 1944 census that was a precursor to the intended liquidation of the Hungarian capital’s 200000 Jews in Nazi death camps.”The ink from these documents was still legible,too, since minimal air could collect in the walls and previous of the owner of the apartment smoked (apparently nicotine preserves), and they were handed over to the Budapest City Archives. “[These documents] hel[p] to fill a enormous gap in the history of the Holocaust in Budapest,” said Istvan Kenyeres, the head of the archives, and who received the historical trove in September.
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