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| Thread ID: 76022 | 2007-01-18 01:39:00 | Worthy of time | leonidas5 (2306) | PC World Chat |
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| 517093 | 2007-01-18 01:39:00 | The following came in a newsletter today..... Late Last Year, the CBS' news magazine 60 Minutes gave viewers a never before seen look into the International Tracing Service [www.its-arolsen.org in Bad Arolsen, Germany. Created by the Red Cross shortly after World War II, the International Tracing Service is the largest Holocaust archive in the world. On its 16 miles of shelves are 50 million documents holding the stories of 17 million victims of the Holocaust, including * The paper trail for "Frank, Annaliese Marie" as she was sent from Amsterdam to her eventual death at Bergen-Beslen. Annaliese is known today as "Anne Frank." * A list of 700 men and 300 women needed to work in a munitions factory in Brnenec-Brunnlitz in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The factory was owned by Oskar Schindler. * An April 20 "Totenbuch" [or "death book"] recording the execution of one prisoner every two minutes. The most moving and fascinating part of 60 Minutes' piece is that the show invited Walter Feiden, Miki Schwartz, and Jack Rosenthal to visit Bad Arolsen. The three men are the first Holocaust survivors to enter the archive, and the Red Cross located documents for each. You can watch the 60 Minutes story, in its entirety, online at www.cbsnews.com This link will open a new browser window and resize it to the width of CBS' embedded video player, so be ready for that. The video is just under 13 minutes long. Leonidas |
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