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| ITS Holocaust Archive Now Open to Public By Mike Sherwin St. Louis Jewish Light Wednesday, December 19, 2007 The massive archive of Nazi-era documents contained at the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany, are now available to the public. For more than 60 years, the ITS Holocaust Archive was open only to Red Cross archivists, Holocaust survivors and their descendants. Now researchers, historians and the general public can access the Bad Arolsen archive, an expansive complex holding more than 50 million records, which is administered by the International Committee of the Red Cross. The archive was paid for by the German government as part of the country?s reparations for the Holocaust, and contains information about approximately 17.5 million people persecuted by the Nazis. The ITS announced that as of Nov. 28, the archive is available to the public. That comes after the 11 countries, the members of the International Commission for International Tracing Service, amended in 2006 the Bonn Accords of 1955, which set up the ITS archive. |
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