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The Buried Photo and the Child Who Vanished: Who Was Pawel?

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The Buried Photo and the Child Who Vanished: Who Was Pawel?

A buried photograph and a decades-old immigration file together reveal a name Denton Falls never spoke: Pawel. A three-year-old listed in Elsa Kaminski’s 1972 arrival records contradicted the family story of only two children - and two weeks later a damp, soil-stained photo surfaced under an oak; who was Pawel and why did Elsa never say his name out loud?

In this episode, we follow how a college assignment, an immigration document, a long-kept envelope, and a photograph found by a dog converge to reopen a family secret. How did Elsa’s arrival records and the photograph buried for more than forty years change what the town believed about her family?

Person: Elsa Kaminski
Date: November 14, 1972
Location: Denton Falls, Ohio
Event: Photograph found under a red oak on December 9, 2023
Case: Immigration file listing three dependent minors including Pawel

- Larry Romano, age 22 in November 2023, ordered and printed a digital scan of his grandmother’s 1972 immigration file.
- Elsa’s 1972 immigration record lists three dependent minors: Henryk (age 9), Zofia (age 6), and Pawel (age 3).
- Elsa arrived at the port of New York on November 14, 1972, after traveling from Warsaw to Frankfurt then by ship.
- A photograph was uncovered by a dog named Copper on December 9, 2023, under a red oak in Blackwater River Nature Preserve.
- Marcia Brooks, age 67 in December 2023, had kept a paper in an envelope for 25 years containing a man’s name, a birth year, and a Warsaw district connected to Elsa’s past.

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