Need help! Human Skin Lampshade
Title probably caught your eye; Human Skin Lampshade… so here’s the story.
Old lady in my Grandma’s building passed away and her husband was getting rid of some stuff. My sister was checking out this cool looking old lamp and she said she would take it, but my Grandma gave her a nudge and quickly pointed out she wouldn’t want it because it was made of human skin and was made from Jewish people in the concentration camps. It was definitely old, and my sister could see that it was somewhat crudely stitched. The threading used, in fact, was made of the same leathery material stretched across the lamp shade, and according to the old man, the thread was fashioned from thin cuts of skin too.
Now, my Grandmother and this old guy really aren’t ones to kid around, and this old lady did have a lot of other stuff from the war, as well. My sister poked around on the internet trying to find information on this elusive lamp, and she’s getting all these odd results like "priceless lamps" that people are making out to be more myth than fact, when this old guy has it sitting in his living room.
Of course, this COULD be all a hoax, but it’s very similar to this lampshade, which is made of human skin:
http://www.forward.com/workspace/ass…amp-101310.jpg
I’d like to add that I am aware that the fact that it’s made of human skin definitely means that it should be given a proper burial for the sake of respect towards the person it came from. But I am interested to see if anyones seen or heard anything like it. I was surprised to hear that it’s THAT much of a rarity, as I’ve heard different cases of peoples skins being made into wallets (Antoine Le Blanc of NJ, etc), therefore it’s not that hard for me to believe that this would happen as gruesome as it is.
Input, anyone? And again, I apologize if this is, and probably is, in the wrong section.
