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Registry of Holocaust Survivors Seeking Survivors Worldwide
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, is launching a major effort to expand its search for Holocaust survivors to include information on survivors living all around the world. In its International Holocaust Survivors Outreach Project, the Museum has established partnerships with organizations in Germany, Italy, Austria, Argentina and Uruguay. Ambassador Klaus Scharioth is lending his support to the project and has asked numerous German organizations active in the United States to support it as well. German Consulates across the United States and missions and consulates in Latin America will also promote the project. “The database so far contains information on over 195,000 survivors and their families worldwide,” Ambassador Scharioth said. “Each additional contact thus represents an important contribution to confronting the past. Expanding the database will create an unprecedented opportunity to rediscover those missing from the time of the Holocaust.” The Registry includes the names of all Holocaust survivors—whether or not they are currently living—and defines a survivor as a person who was displaced, persecuted and or/discriminated against by the racial, religious, ethnic and political policies of the Nazis and their allies between 1933 and 1945. In addition to former inmates of concentration camps and ghettos, this includes, among others, refugees and people in hiding. Since 1993 the Museum’s Registry of Holocaust Survivors has provided valuable information to thousands of survivors worldwide, and in some cases has succeeded in re-uniting friends and family members from the Holocaust era. To protect the privacy of survivors and their families, the Registry is not searchable online. The Museum’s Web site www.ushmm.org/registry contains further information on the Registry as well as downloadable registration forms in 17 languages. For additional information please contact the Registry by e-mail: registry@ushmm.org or by mail at Registry of Holocaust Survivors, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, DC 20024. photo from www.washington.org March 29, 2007 Links
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