The unique and unusual chess pieces have been discovered under the floor of one of the historical buildings of the former Auschwitz I camp.

The collection comprises 35 cardboard boxes of different sizes containing hand-drawn chess pieces.

Read more: auschwitz.org/en/museum/news/c

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Fantastic they have survived this long and discovery adds more to the story.

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