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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Source:
The New York Times
Title: Property Lost in Holocaust Is Cataloged
Online
Byline: Isabel Kershner
Publication date: May 2,
2011
…Yet there were also moments of kindness and
heroism, one of which has recently come to light. The granddaughter of a Polish
woman who lived just outside the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War
II presented Mr. Brown with his first piece of recovered property this week.
She said her grandmother used to leave food for the forced laborers outside the
camp in pots hidden in the bushes. One night, when she came to collect the
empty pots, she found a jeweled necklace that had been placed in one of them.
The granddaughter, Magdalena Wojciechowska, 40, of Lodz,
Poland, returned the necklace to Mr. Brown, saying it was “Jewish property.”
After taking the necklace to New York for the news conference, Mr. Brown said
he would hand it over for safekeeping to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs’ and
Heroes’ Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem.
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