Soviets Release Data on Nazi War Camp Victims to Red Cross
The Soviet Union has made available copies of documents captured at the end of World War II that contain the names of 400,000 people who died or were interned in Nazi concentration camps and forced labor camps.
The American Red Cross said today that it has opened a Holocaust and War Victims Tracing and Information Center in Baltimore to help people learn the fate of friends or relatives.
It said the International Red Cross had received from the Soviets copies of archival material recovered by the Soviet Army during the liberation of the camps at the end of the war.
The material includes 46 books containing nearly 70,000 death certificates from the Auschwitz concentration camp. Also included are the names of 130,000 prisoners used for forced labor in various German firms and 200,000 names of victims in other camps, including Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Gross Rosen and Buchenwald.
The documents are being housed at the International Committee of the Red Cross, in Arolsen, West Germany. There were already 13 million names on file at Arolsen.
Those wishing more information were urged to contact their local Red Cross chapters or call the Red Cross’ toll-free hotline at (800) 848-9277.
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