German archives provide details about looted assets

Friday, July 21, 2000 | 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 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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