April 14, 2007
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"Until recent years, I thought Leo, like so many Holocaust victims, had vanished without a trace. Then I started digging." Eric Muller's great-uncle Leopold, a German Jew who had fought for Germany in World War I, was deported from Bad Kissingen, Germany, to a relocation center in Izbica, Poland in April 1942 and never heard from again. [more inside]
posted by kirkaracha (4 comments total)

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A wealthy American attempted to sponsor Leopold's immigration to the United States in 1941, but the plan fell through. In July 2006 Eric Muller happened to find references to his great-uncle in a microfilm collection of Nazi documents. In March 2007 Muller travelled to Bad Kissingen and found his great-uncle's Gestapo file, which included an inventory of the silverware the Gestapo confiscated from Leopold before deporting him. The file contained something else, too. "I was not expecting what I received in the mail today."
posted by kirkaracha at 11:39 AM on April 14, 2007


Great story.
Dupe.
posted by waitingtoderail at 11:42 AM on April 14, 2007


previously.
posted by delmoi at 11:42 AM on April 14, 2007


Though, to be fair, this included more info and linkey goodness than I did.
posted by sotonohito at 11:54 AM on April 14, 2007


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