A new article in the AP series.
Jewish Leader Pushes on Nazi Archive
From the article:

Jewish leader who survived the Holocaust as a boy by hiding in basements and attics urged countries on Wednesday to speed the opening of millions of files on Nazi concentration camps and their victims.

Leo Rechter, president of the U.S.-based National Association of Jewish Child Holocaust Survivors, told Congress that Nazi war records stored in Bad Arolsen, Germany, should be opened urgently for a dying generation of survivors.

“Of all the public archives in the world, what possible justification can there be to prevent us from learning the truth about what happened to our families during the Holocaust?” he asked, according to testimony prepared for delivery to the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Europe subcommittee.

For More Articles and Material in the AP Series About the Opening of the Nazi War Records Archive in Bad Arolsen, See This RS Post.

Source: AP

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