Polish POW's belongings returned

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Jewelry seized by Nazis from concentration camp prisoners returned to families in Poland

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Stanislawa Wasilewska was 42 when she was captured by Nazi troops in Warsaw in 1944 .

She was sent to Ravensbrück and Neuengamme forced labor camp, where she was given prisoner number 7257 .

Eighty years later , her jewelry was returned to her family at an emotional ceremony in Warsaw .

The Arolsen Archives , an international center on Nazi persecution, holds information on 17.5 million people.

It fell after 63 days of heroic struggle that cost the lives of some 200,000 fighters and civilians. In revenge, the Germans expelled the surviving residents and reduced Warsaw to ruins. During German occupation in 1939-45 , Poland lost some 6 million residents, half of them Jewish , and suffered huge material losses..