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Dropping the photograph, Abby sed and opened the slip of paper accoers

Dear Gloria,

We pulled soentleh they confirraphs of Officer Irma Mentz, they do have several in which the officer is in question This photograph is believed to be hih they have no official confirmation of the identity of the officer Victims typically identify and confirm a Nazi soldier When researchers discovered this photo, they began the process of reaching out and possibly finding answers For now, this is e have

I hope this helps

Ezra Eeckhart

Board of Trustee, Simon Wiesenthal Center

With a sigh, she set the letter aside, her eyes snagging on the white envelopeher eyes as she held on to the gift She had thought she had received the last one when Klein’s office had been broken into Why her grandfather saved this final letter was beyond her, but she didn’t care She hugged the envelope to her chest and stood, leaving everything else behind

She was done with secrets and clues

Checking her watch, she noted the tiht, a welco away

Abby exited the way she ca around her She was ready to say goodbye

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE

Abby pulled up to the curb of her house and got out of her car

She shuffled down the sidewalk and plopped herself down on the stone steps leading to the house, not yet ready to go inside and explain how her visit with her grandfather went

Her gaze traveled over their perfectly rass, to the “For Sale” sign at the edge of the yard

A fresh start, her mother had called it Her parents had decided a home in the country was just what they needed While Abby ay at college, working on her o beginning, they’d be tending a vegetable garden and harvesting eggs froh part of her was sad to see her childhood hoo, she understood her mother’s need for distance from a house full of h the thought of Abby’s future was exciting, soh she tried to ignore it, she couldn’t ignore the hole in her heart