How a house move revealed a family's heartbreaking Auschwitz secret
Sixteen years ago, Marta Seiler set about the mundane task of decluttering her house ahead of a move and came across a box of papers handed to her by her aunt that she had unthinkingly dumped in the attic.
What she found shook her to her core. “The very first piece of paper I picked up turned out to be the last message my paternal grandmother, Cecilia Lovi, ever sent before being transported to Auschwitz,” says Ms Seiler, 75, with tears in her eyes.
Her grandmother’s postcard was one piece of the family’s Holocaust history that had been kept secret all her life — and Marta’s initial reaction was to put it all away and try and not think about it. “I was overwhelmed and confused,” she says, “the historical had become personal.”
The discovery led to a series of heartbreaking revelations about her family’s past – but they would also help rekindle her Jewish faith.
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