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NY woman helps reunite families with lost memorabilia. Her latest mission involved a handwritten letter from the Holocaust kaok.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kaok.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Courtesy Chelsey Brown(NEW YORK) Thrift stores, antique fairs and flea markets in New York City are prime spots for finding valuable, hidden family heirlooms. When Chelsey Brown, an avid thrifter, was shown a letter written more than 75 years ago at the end of the Holocaust by a survivor, she knew where it belonged. "The second that I had it transcribed, I just knew it had to go back to the right family," Brown said. She found the note in late 2021. The letter was written by Ilse Loewenberg, a woman who jumped out of a moving train that was headed to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943. She was part of an underground Nazi resistance group called Gemeinschaft für Frieden und Aufbau, or the Association for Peace and Development. According to later documentation from her sister, Loewenberg walked a three-day-long journey back to Berlin after escaping. In 1944, she was recaptured and put in solitary confinement in Berlin until she was liberated by Russian troops in July 1 ....
Chelsey Brown, 28, discovered the 75-year-old handwritten note, which was written by Ilse Loewenberg, and using MyHeritage.com, she was able to reunite it with the author s family. ....
Courtesy Chelsey Brown(NEW YORK) Thrift stores, antique fairs and flea markets in New York City are prime spots for finding valuable, hidden family heirlooms ....