A family said they have felt haunted for 80 years by a piece of a lampshade made from human skin seized from a concentration camp and brought home for evidence.
The macabre object was given to then-Caerphilly MP Ness Edwards, who went with a parliamentary delegation to the Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945 to gather evidence of the horrors of the Holocaust.
Buchenwald, near Weimar, Germany, had been chosen by the SS division of the Nazi regime as the place that produced objects made from human skin – preferably skin that had been tattooed.
Mr Edwards' daughter Baroness Liln Golding, 91, from Caerphilly, said it weighed heavily on her father for the rest of his life. The lamp has now been returned to the Buchenwald Memorial museum.
Recalling the moment she opened the door to him on his return, she said: "It was so traumatic just to see his face. I wanted to give him a hug. But I couldn’t.
"He said to me ‘don’t touch me, I'm covered in lice'. That moment was engraved in my heart, from my whole being."
