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"frances assa" wrote under <franassa@HOTMAIL.COM>:
> The Internation Tracing Service has recently opened its extensive records of
> persons killed in the holocaust to survivors, family members, estate
> representatives, and scholars. The website at
> http://www.its-arolsen.org/en/homepage/index.html
> <http://www.its-arolsen.org/en/homepage/index.html>
> allows such persons to make requests for information. This is the first time
> this material has been made available. The files were kept hidden away by the
> German government for 60 years. I do not know who the executor is for the
> Nabokov family, but perhaps they can be sent this information.
Just to put the facts straight (and to refute the frankly ludicrous idea
that the German government would "hide" Holocaust-related material):
The International Tracing Service has answered those requests for six and a
half decades. This has been the purpose of its archives from the very
beginning.
The ITS and its archives go back to a tracing service founded by the
International Red Cross in 1943. After the war, the Allied Forces
established the ITS in Germany as a permanent institution to answer
inquiries from Holocaust survivors and family members and to collect all
available records about killed or missing civilians. The ITS is funded by
the German government and has answered millions of tracing requests.
I don't know how the Nabokov family learned about Sergey's fate, but their
source of information was probably the Red Cross tracing service or the ITS
itself.
Jan
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> The Internation Tracing Service has recently opened its extensive records of
> persons killed in the holocaust to survivors, family members, estate
> representatives, and scholars. The website at
> http://www.its-arolsen.org/en/homepage/index.html
> <http://www.its-arolsen.org/en/homepage/index.html>
> allows such persons to make requests for information. This is the first time
> this material has been made available. The files were kept hidden away by the
> German government for 60 years. I do not know who the executor is for the
> Nabokov family, but perhaps they can be sent this information.
Just to put the facts straight (and to refute the frankly ludicrous idea
that the German government would "hide" Holocaust-related material):
The International Tracing Service has answered those requests for six and a
half decades. This has been the purpose of its archives from the very
beginning.
The ITS and its archives go back to a tracing service founded by the
International Red Cross in 1943. After the war, the Allied Forces
established the ITS in Germany as a permanent institution to answer
inquiries from Holocaust survivors and family members and to collect all
available records about killed or missing civilians. The ITS is funded by
the German government and has answered millions of tracing requests.
I don't know how the Nabokov family learned about Sergey's fate, but their
source of information was probably the Red Cross tracing service or the ITS
itself.
Jan
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