Israel – A FADING photograph showing a chubby two-year-old girl and a single-page Red Cross document are the only clues that Chana Meiri has about her past.
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“That is all I have, the only information about where I came from and who my parents might be,” said the 66-year-old grandmother, who is one of hundreds of thousands of orphans separated from their parents during the Holocaust and whose identity is still a mystery more than 60 years on from the Second World War.
Chana will be one of many keen to access material from some 12 million files that arrived at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. The files, from an international tracing centre set up after the Second World War in the German town of Bad Arolsen, are the first batch of about 50 million documents which are to be finally released after years of lobbying by governments and Jewish organisations.
They will be crucial as Yad Vashem archivists and researchers have only named about 3.3 million victims. The race is now on to identify each one. [scotlandsunday]
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