COUNTYWIDE : Archives May Yield Holocaust Material
Ventura County residents who lost relatives in the Holocaust may get information from recently opened Soviet archives through the local chapter of the American Red Cross.
The archives contain material recovered by the Soviet Army during the liberation of concentration camps at the close of World War II.
Included are 70,000 death certificates from Auschwitz in Poland and the names of 130,000 prisoners forced into labor in Germany. Also released were the names of 200,000 other victims from camps in Sachsenhausen, Gross Rosen and Buchenwald.
A search through the lists would be done by the Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center in Baltimore and could take one to two years, a Red Cross representative said.
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