Mystery of Holocaust Book Unfolds

Meticulous pen-and-ink representations of the horrors of Dachau, drawn by a Polish Catholic artist who spent most of the war in concentration camps, form the backbone of a unique album that's drawing praise and curiosity from Holocaust scholars. The AP traces the history of the handmade book and the tortured souls who created and preserved it.

The book contains an artistic narrative of concentration camp life that scholars say is unprecedented; it's bound with leather that probably came from an SS officer's uniform. "I have a sense of being quite horrified, of feeling my stomach in my throat," says the book's owner, remembering looking through it as a child. (More Holocaust stories.)