Kiev – Ukraine Gives Yad Vashem Access to Holocaust-Era Archives

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    Kiev – In a modest ceremony, with no media presence, a trailblazing agreement was signed last month between Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Authority and the archives of the Ukrainian KGB.

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    The agreement is expected to upgrade historical research on the fate of hundreds of thousands of Jews who were persecuted and murdered during the Holocaust in the Soviet Union.

    The Ukrainian security services will supply Yad Vashem with invaluable World War II documents, including lists of deported and murdered Jews, the minutes of meetings held by officials of the Ukrainian security forces following the liberation of the concentration and death camps, and information on the trials of those involved in killing Jews.

    “This is a real breakthrough; it is a major event of outstanding importance,” Avner Shalev, chairman of the Yad Vashem directorate, told Haaretz.

    In the next few months, the institution’s researchers will visit the archives in Kiev to begin photocopying documents.

    Read more at Haaretz


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    VeyIzMir
    VeyIzMir
    13 years ago

    Go give this to Anders Mathisen the Norwegian holocaust denier.