Mysterious Ways

Wonderful World

Oberdorf, Bopfingen, Germany

In 1990, a father and son found something unusual in the attic: a chest containing a Jewish Bible. In April 2017, the son sold it to Gerhard Roese, an art historian, who learned that the Bible belonged to a Jewish couple killed in the Holocaust.

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