By chance, Ingelene Rodewald discovered photographs between the cover and binding of an old photo album—images from the Warsaw Ghetto around 1941. The photos depicting daily life and suffering in the "Jewish residential district" were secretly taken by her aunt, Helmy Spethmann, who served as a nurse in the reserve military hospital in Warsaw, and she never showed them to anyone until her death. Her niece retraces her aunt's life journey, from her origins in a progressive Eckernförde family to her work as a nurse during World War I and her deployment in Warsaw, gently exploring her motivations for taking the "forbidden photos." She makes the documents from the life of a hospital nurse and the harrowing images from the Warsaw Ghetto comprehensively accessible for the first time.