A discovery of Holocaust-era photos helps a Jewish family connect with its past
A box of photos discovered more than 30 years ago includes pictures of an internment camp and many who died at Auschwitz. The photos were recently reunited with the Jewish family they belong to.
The U.S. Holocaust Museum has acquired photos of a French internment camp where 18,000 Jews were imprisoned before being sent to Auschwitz. The story of how rare photographs were rediscovered begins three decades ago on the streets of New York's Greenwich Village.
In 1989, Silvia Espinosa-Schrock was an undergraduate art student at Cooper Union when she stopped to browse through knickknacks someone was selling on the street. "I saw that box," she recalls. "Instinctively, I was drawn to
