The Cutting Edge

We received word that the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received recently from the International Tracing Service at Bad Arolsen copies of the names-records of Displaced Persons camps. Some 3.5 million names of Displaced Persons are in these so-called DP records. They had been scheduled to be delivered much later, but thanks to our – and the Museum’s urgings - they were transferred much earlier from Germany. Reportedly, they are not well organized and it will take the Museum some time to bring them in order, but these documents will make the search for Survivors much easier and more efficient. We urge in the strongest terms that the Museum’s leadership do their utmost--when these records are in reasonable order--to distribute them to other Jewish museums and libraries around the country. Survivors are still searching for missing relatives or friends and their days are passing.

Leo Rechter is the elected president of the grass-roots National Organization of Jewish Child Holocaust Survivors.