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Last update - 18:04 15/04/2008 Claims Conference to compile database of Holocaust memories By Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: Elie Wiesel, Holocaust The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany is soliciting Holocaust survivors to write memoirs and donate their personal diaries to a new digital database, the group announced during a press conference in New York on Tuesday. The project was planned in part by Professor Shaul Friedlander, a renowned Israeli historian and researcher who won a Pulitzer this year for his book "The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939-1945." Friedlander said Tuesday that "the worldwide Shoah memories collection will rescue and preserve a first hand account of the genocide that claimed 6,000,000 Jews in World War Two. It will be vital to future generations' understanding of the Holocaust when there are no survivors left to tell of their experiences in concentration camps, ghettos and hiding from Nazis." Advertisement Elie Wiesel is the honorary chairman of the program. He has said of it that, "I repeat now what Dubnov said to his companions when they went to their deaths. Write, write, write. And I am saying it to you now, please write. This is the last chance. Thirty years from now, who will still be here?" Related articles: In search of Bruno Schulz Power plays delay recovery of Shoah restitution body Claims Conference won't handle Holocaust survivor payments Bookmark to del.icio.us   Peer pressure Facing widespread pressure, Nadine Gordimer may pull out of Israel writers meet. My struggle German Jewish leader backs the publication of an annotated version of Hitler's Mein Kampf.   1.   Survivors 17:07  |  Shana 15/04/08   2.   Survivors testimonies 18:39  |  Gilbert 15/04/08   3.   WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR THIS AND 19:24  |  Robert 15/04/08   4.   Don`t Forget the Cash Stupid! 21:06  |  El-Birawi 15/04/08   5.   GREAT!: How about the memories that you stole my loot! 22:43  |  Survivors Son 15/04/08   6.   to el barani 16:21  |  Harry 17/04/08   7.   Claims travesty 22:05  |  Jay 18/04/08   8.   El Birawi 10:07  |  Gary 21/04/08   9.   to el Birawi 15:39  |  TAZ 21/04/08   10.   Spielberg Foundation 21:09  |  sweis Melbourne 21/04/08   11.   Germans are good people 07:10  |  Her, 22/04/08   12.   her 20:46  |  sweis Melbourne 23/04/08   13.   Nonsense -- GO #5!! 01:42  |  KeepingItRealJew 26/04/08

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