The discovery of this service card spurred a ten-year search. At its conclusion, the grandchildren knew that their grandfather had been part of a police force that had murdered thousands of people in the greater Bialystok area and expelled the inhabitants from entire villages. They also learned that in 1967, a quarter century before their grandfather’s death, he had told a family friend about his past, which had plagued him with guilt and thoughts of suicide.
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