Growing up, Tony Bernard knew that his father, Henry, had been in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. He was familiar with the tattoo bearing his Auschwitz number - B1224. As a young man, on a trip to Poland with his father, did he begin to uncover the secrets that filled Henry with regret, anguish, and guilt. In 1940, Henry was recruited into the Jewish Order Service in his Polish hometown - an organization set up by the Nazis to help maintain order among Jews. Faced daily with impossible choices, desperate to keep his loved ones alive, Henry was both victim and unwilling participant.
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