Critical meeting to decide on distribution of trove of historical Nazi papers
Meeting scheduled for Monday-Tuesday, May 14-15. From the article:
The International Tracing Service, an arm of the International Committee of the Red Cross, meets in Amsterdam Monday and Tuesday to decide when and how to make electronic copies of its files available to researchers.
So far the archive of 30 million to 50 million pages in Bad Arolsen, Germany, has been used only to help reunite families and verify restitution claims. The files were closed in 1955 because it was feared that unfettered access could violate the privacy of Holocaust victims, both living and dead.
Source: AP
See Also: The Associated Press Has Done A Number of Reports and Multimedia Pieces on the Opening of the Archives at Bad Arolsen. We’ve linked to many of them on RS with the help of Randy Herschaft. You can find links to all of these materials here.
See Also: Int’l Tracing Service
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