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Lost in the Holocaust: experts plumb newly opened archive (AP)

Valery Bazarov takes a look at files of victims of the nazi regime at the International Trading Service in Bad Arolsen, central Germany, Thursday, May 8, 2008. For decades after World War II, the files were only used to help find missing persons or document atrocities to support compensation claims. But in November, the last of the 11 countries that govern the archive under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross, cleared the way for public access to the more than 50 million documents. Next month, a conference of historians is to meet here to map out the archive's unexplored contents and help determine how to best use the information in the future. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)AP - A mother and child separated. A father's war wound. An uncle's name on a list.


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