When John Carr learned that his father was not who he claimed to be, he had no idea that the painstaking detective work which followed would take him on a journey of discovery into the darkest recesses of modern history.
The documents produced between 1939 and 1944 by the occupying German authorities in Łódź, came to light when a man living in the Bielany district of Warsaw who says he bought them at a market offered the collection for sale demanding PLN 59,000.
WARNING! GRAPHIC IMAGES: This incomprehensible human tragedy was planned and executed by the Germans at a concentration camp set up on the edge of the Łódź Ghetto for the specific purpose of abusing, humiliating and tormenting Polish children.
WARNING! GRAPHIC IMAGES: Seventy-eight years ago this week, Germans carried out one of the most shocking, depraved and grotesque incidents of the Holocaust: they took away all the children aged under 10 in the Łódź Ghetto and murdered them.
The silver case which originally belonged to a Jewish prisoner was sitting in the Polish man’s house for a decade until he found it and handed it over to the Shem Olam Institute.
74 years ago to the day the last train transport of Jews left Łódź for Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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