This burden speaks volumes

After 70 years, Shanghai family unable to locate Jewish book owner

After storing 2,000 books for a Jewish school principal for 70 years, the Lin family from Shanghai asked for help from the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum on Wednesday to look for the books' owner as the family's current residential neighborhood will soon be demolished.

"My family has waited for Carl Anger to return to get back his precious books," said Pan Lu, 65, whose father-in-law Lin Daozhi promised to keep the books in 1943.