German archives provide details about looted assets
by LOS ANGELES (JTA) -- Some 100,000 files documenting assets stolen by the Nazis have been added to a Web site aiding Holocaust vi, The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center and Risk International Services announced the newly gained access to the files dur
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The Living Heirs Project and Web site were established a year ago as a joint venture of the Wiesenthal Center; the Houston-based Risk International; Avotaynu, a Jewish genealogy service; and MyFamily.com, a family history publishing company.
Many of the German documents pertain to insured Jewish property destroyed during Kristallnacht, the night of Nov. 9 and 10, 1938, when Nazi thugs ransacked Jewish-owned shops and set synagogues ablaze across Germany and Austria.
Users of the site will be charged a $55 fee to locate, retrieve, review and deliver the documents.
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