Auschwitz drawings by unknown artist to be shown for first time

WARSAW, Poland -- A series of 22 drawings by an unknown artist depicting life at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp is being shown at the museum for the first time.

The drawings were found near gas chambers and crematorium at the camp, where at least 1.1 million people, mainly Jews, were murdered by the Nazis.

"You can clearly see that the artist was hoping that someone might find his drawings and use them as a witness to the Holocaust," said Agnieszka Sieradzka, who oversees the art collection at the museum.

Some drawings depict the killing of ill prisoners, others show the license plates of trucks used by SS forces.

Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest Nazi extermination camp in occupied Poland.

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