The Dark Room

“I have the photo. I can say: that’s Askan, he was my Opa.

And all the while a murderer, too. How do I know that?

Where is my proof? I have no reason not to believe it.

There are no pictures of him holding a gun to someone’s head, but I am sure he did that, and pulled the trigger, too. The camera was pointing elsewhere, shutter opening and closing on another murder, of another Jew, done by another man. But my Opa was no more than a few paces away.”