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T

he chance discovery of
Jewish family photographs
at a death camp in Poland
gave a suburban
Philadelphia woman her life's calling
and made true again the adage that
one person can make a difference.
Writer and documentary filmmaker
Ann Weiss spoke movingly to a Jewish
Book Fair audience of more than 60
about her mission to save the precious
images. Her presentation, co-spon-
sored by CHAIM (Children of
Holocaust-survivors Association in
Michigan) and Michigan Jewish War
Veterans and Ladies Auxiliary, took
place on Nov. 12 (Veterans' Day) at
the JCC's Jimmy Prentis Morris
Building in Oak Park.
In her book and film, both titled

The Last Album: Eyes From the Ashes of
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Weiss explains her
discovery and its effect on her life.

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While on a group tour of Eastern
Europe in. October 1986, Weiss chose
to distance herself from the others vis-
iting Auschwitz. As she_searched for
them later, someone mistakenly
opened a door that showed her a hid-
den archive of Jewish photographs.
She learned they had belonged to a
transport of Jews brought to
Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943.
"These were their most cherished
photographs, the ones they could not be
parted from," she said. The images of
Jews enjoying normal lives — filled
with loving families, sweethearts and
friends — were glued into ledger books.
Weiss went home but could not for-
get what she had seen. She contacted
the Polish government and was given
permission to photograph the pictures.
After copying a few hundred, Weiss
presented them at Yad Vashem, the
Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. She
thought her work was done, "but then
an old man saw one photo and said, `I
danced at that wedding.' Then I knew

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