Holocaust and WW II Tracing Program

@AskAlly (3625)
Canada
April 4, 2007 11:59am CST
With 16 MILES of shelving stacked with records of those dead, missing or still living through the horror of the Death Camps, You may now be able to trace formerly lost loved ones. New records that have been kept from public viewing for 60 years are now available for the first time. My great aunt is the last of 12 children on my mothers side. She still mourns the loss of a brother during the second world war. Every previous enquiry was a dead end. He was picked up off the street and sent to a labour camp. I hope that I can find a record of him before she passes away. You can send your inquiry to the American Red Cross at http:/www.redcross.org/services/intl/holotrace/process.html I was blown away! 16 MILES of records. How many loved ones, families, children, mothers, fathers etc are hidded away on those shelves. I appalls me to think there are those that say the Holocaust never happened.
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• United States
5 Apr 07
Oh my!! That is a LOT of records! I can't believe they took so long to release those to the public. I think it's nuts too that there are people who seriously deny or just don't think the Holocaust happened! That's crazy!!Have you seen a documentary called "Paper Clips"? I guess now they're making or made a movie based on it too. Anyway it's about a school in TN who wanted to learn more about other cultures because it was mostly a white Christian community. They chose to study the Holocaust first. They ended up asking Holocaust victims to send in paper clips (because during the war the Polish I think wore paper clips on there shirts because the Jews were forced to where stars). They ended up with millions of paper clips after it was all said and done. They then built a memorial out of a old German train car used to transport the Jews to the camps. It's a really tear jerking documentary!!
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@AskAlly (3625)
• Canada
5 Apr 07
I have not seen this documentary. I would like to see it. I also did not know that the Polish wore paper clips. I know from my relatives that the Dutch wore yellow tulips as a sign of support for their Jewish countrymen.
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• United States
14 Apr 07
That is really cool! I didn't know that.
• United States
5 Apr 07
Paper Clips Class/Gang - The students who started the Paper Clips gathering.
Oh my!! That is a LOT of records! I can't believe they took so long to release those to the public. I think it's nuts too that there are people who seriously deny or just don't think the Holocaust happened! That's crazy!!Have you seen a documentary called "Paper Clips"? I guess now they're making or made a movie based on it too. Anyway it's about a school in TN who wanted to learn more about other cultures because it was mostly a white Christian community. They chose to study the Holocaust first. They ended up asking Holocaust victims to send in paper clips (because during the war the Polish I think wore paper clips on there shirts because the Jews were forced to where stars). They ended up with millions of paper clips after it was all said and done. They then built a memorial out of a old German train car used to transport the Jews to the camps. It's a really tear jerking documentary!!