US Holocaust Memorial Museum Launches Promising if Daunting Individualized Bad Arolsen Search Program
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum today launched an ambitious and daunting new program of “individualized research” program to help Holocaust survivors obtain precious documentation about their Nazi enslavement.
The new program “begins right now,” said Arthur Berger, USHMM director of external communications in a Museum corridor just moments after a closed-door briefing with survivors, details of which were provided first to The Cutting Edge News. The “individualized research” will probe a triad of major archival collections. These include some 46 million documents derived from several countries now in the existing USHMM collections, plus the first central names index and related documentation just transferred from the International Tracing Service at Bad Arolsen, and finally the bulk of 35 million Bad Arolsen files scheduled to be transferred between 2010 and 2011.
The important feature of individualized “give and take” with survivors will be a hallmark of the new program. About two dozen polyglot researchers have already been trained by the USHMM to undertake the sensitive searches. Each search is roughly guesstimated to take six to eights weeks, and will include providing the survivor with gratis physical copies of the discovered documents.
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The new program “begins right now,” said Arthur Berger, USHMM director of external communications in a Museum corridor just moments after a closed-door briefing with survivors, details of which were provided first to The Cutting Edge News. The “individualized research” will probe a triad of major archival collections. These include some 46 million documents derived from several countries now in the existing USHMM collections, plus the first central names index and related documentation just transferred from the International Tracing Service at Bad Arolsen, and finally the bulk of 35 million Bad Arolsen files scheduled to be transferred between 2010 and 2011.
The important feature of individualized “give and take” with survivors will be a hallmark of the new program. About two dozen polyglot researchers have already been trained by the USHMM to undertake the sensitive searches. Each search is roughly guesstimated to take six to eights weeks, and will include providing the survivor with gratis physical copies of the discovered documents.