re: If you could own any object in the world…

A photo album and journal depicting my ancestors that were all... exterminated... back in Poland during the holocaust.

My grandpa was the only one that made it to America and his brother became the top general and eventually the president of Poland in the 70s, but they were the only two out of dozens that survived. Before WWII my last name was very common in Poland, now it's a rare, uncommon name.

I'd love to know the rest of my family that existed and see what they looked like, and know their stories so they could live on through me.

Instead they got wiped off the face of the earth and forgotten like they never existed, and to me that is the saddest thing that can happen to any human