Lady Sees Letter Written Over 70yrs Ago, Traces Family Who Owns It, Makes Them Emotional After Returning It

• A letter a woman, Ilse Lowenberg, wrote more than 70 years ago has resurfaced and used to reconnect her families
• The letter was found in the flea market and bought by a 28-year-old writer who went on a mission to give it back to Lowenberg's family
• When the piece of paper found itself to her great-niece, Butler, it brought back a well of emotions for her

When Ilse Lowenberg wrote her sister, Carla, a letter on July 18, 1945, after surviving the Holocaust, she probably did not know how important it would be decades after.

A part of the letter written in German translates as:

“I am able to give you a sign of life from me after so many years. Dad, Mum, Grete, Lottchen and Hermann: no one is alive anymore.”

After over seventy years, the letter was found and returned to one of the family members of Lowenberg. Chelsey Brown, a writer, who purchased the letter at a flea market in America in 2021 had the intent of finding Lowenberg’s family.

The author who is also a part-time interior decorator said that she is always heartbroken when she sees family relics that should be with the rightful family up for sale at a flea or thrift shop, Daily Mail reports.

The market of reselling Holocaust memorabilia

Brown said that though Holocaust memorabilia could be resold for thousands of dollars, it is always right to return them to the original owners.

After she was able to find the woman’s great-niece, Jill Butler, she learnt that Lowenberg survived the Holocaust because she jumped from an Auschwitz-bound train. To survive, she had to hide in Berlin for months.

We thought it was a scam

While speaking with CNN, the great-niece said that her family was very surprised to get the letter. When they were contacted, they initially thought it was a scam.

Butler said:

"We all loved our great aunt Ilse and are thrilled beyond words to read her thoughts in her own handwriting after she emerged from the depths of the European inferno.”

Brown said that she is committed to getting documents connected with the Holocaust off the market and returning them to families as a way to reconnect them with their ancestors.

Kidnapped son reconnected with family

Meanwhile, Legit.ng earlier reported that a man, Li Jingwei, who was kidnapped and sold when he was four years old in 1989 has seen his family again more than 30 years later.

It was gathered that the Chinese man was sold to a family in Henan province. While speaking with the media, Jingwei said he could not remember anything, including the names of his parents and where he came from.

The man said that when he was abducted, he only remembered what his parents looked like and the landscape that leads to his home.

Source: Legit.ng