Reading the fading pencil words on a yellowing postcard, tears ran down Marta Seiler’s face.
She had finally plucked up the courage to open big box of letters written by her mother, father and grandmother during the war – only to discover harrowing first-hand accounts of her family enduring the horrors of Auschwitz, Soviet labour camps and the ghettos.
For Marta the revelations were heartbreaking – her father had died when she was a small child, and her mother Izabella had never spoken about being in Auschwitz.
