Paul Jablow

How Ann Weiss Restored Humanity to the Victims of Auschwitz

In October of 1986, as a delegation of Jews active in community affairs toured a closed Auschwitz-Birkenau, investigative journalist Ann Weiss fell behind the others. “A need for solitude compelled me to linger behind, Weiss said of confronting 30,000 shoes that once belonged to prisoners. “Alone, I studied their broken forms, and thought of their…