A Holocaust mystery finds some answers by Delia Cruceru

In 2005 Shari Klages decided to uncover the significance and the background of a thick leather-bound album that was in the possession of her father, Arnold Unger a survivor of War World II from the Nazi camp of Dachau. The album contains 30 pictures drawn with ink or watercolors that expose the horrors of the Holocaust and 238 photographs. "I have a sense of being quite horrified, of feeling my stomach in my throat," Klages says remembering about the album. Now she wants to discover how the album reached in the possession of her father. The only clue is a signature at the bottom of several drawings: Porulski. She doesn't recall her father speaking about the war, the album, or the artist who painted it. Specialists think that Porulski painted the 30 pictures after Dachau camp was liberated in 1945, he "would never have dared" to draw the horrors while being still under oppression. Barbara Distel, the director of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site said about the album: "It's a unique artifact, and clearly drawn by someone with an intimate knowledge of the camp's reality." It seems that Porulski even after the war tried to return to Poland, but communist authorities wanted Porulski out of the country Malgorzata Stozek daughter of a relative recalls: "One day I came to see my mother and she was crying because he wrote to her that he had no money, he was hungry and was sleeping on park benches. He lived in terrible povert."

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by Delia Cruceru for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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