Nazi records detail a lucky twist of fate

Despite hate mail and increasing agitation among some over his tenacity, Shapiro talked publicly about the re-victimization of Holocaust survivors by those who continued to throw roadblocks in the way of public access to the records.

This week, he has spent time explaining to hundreds of Jewish genealogists how the ITS archive will allow them get information from never-before-accessible documents that may solve the mysteries some have been seeking to uncover for more than half a century.

For more information on ITS records coming to the Holocaust Museum, see www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/its/faq/ or call the Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors at 202-488-6130.

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