VAST NAZI ARCHIVES TO GET LIMITED RELEASE

Nazi archives to get limited release (JTA)
A vast Holocaust archive will be opened to historical researchers.

Member countries of the International Tracing Service decided Tuesday at their annual meeting in Amsterdam that the archives, held in Bad Arolsen, Germany, would be released to member countries as soon as their digitization is completed. Historical researchers, in addition to survivors and their next of kin, would be given access to the digital copies.

Opening the records to historical research requires adoption by all 11 member states of last year's protocol amending the 1955 Bonn Agreement, but not all the countries have approved it. Representatives of the states that have not yet ratified said this week that the process should be completed this fall.