[Cz-L] Holocaust victims list at Yad-Vashem

Dear Marc and members of the list,

I would like to add to what Marc wrote;

Even if you submitted a page of testimony to Yad Va-Shem, YV occasionally
did not include it in their records. I submitted a testimony about my
paternal grandmother who died in Transnistria, but now cannot find any
mention of her among those listed in the records of Yad-VaShem.

Also, if you have books or articles mentioning the names of those killed in
the numerous massacres against Jews during the war, please check if all
those mentioned are contained in the lists of Yad Va-Shem.

Mimi

On 7/9/09 12:24 AM, "MARC M COHEN" <marc-cohen25_at_sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>
> Dear Mimi,
>
> Thanks for sending out this suggestion. I recommend it to everyone on this
> list.
>
> I have been checking Yad Vashem for years as they added people first on
> computer printouts sent by mail and then online. I have found a number of my
> relatives from Storozynetz, Bukovina and Tirgu Frumos, Romania. In a few
> cases, I added my own page of testimony because the ones that had been
> submitted previously (usually in the 1950s, but some as late as the '70s) had
> incomplete information in terms of maiden names, names of parents or siblings,
> place of birth or residence, occupation, etc.
>
> It was also fascinating to discover WHO submitted the pages of testimony --
> other relatives, friends, or government archives. In one case, I discovered
> that the submitter of the pages for his parents in the '50s was a
> Storozynetzer who I did not know had survived exile by the Russians to
> Siberia.
>
> Unfortunately, we still have some relatives of whom we do not know their fate.
> I keep checking YV to see if anything surfaces. Less than a year ago, three
> cousins from Tirgu Frumos appeared in the database from the addition of
> Romanian government archives. We knew they died in the Shoah, but this was
> the first documentation. In the same way, the Romanian archives documented
> that a great aunt Clara Kantorji Schaeffler had died at a camp in Czernowitz.
> We knew that her husband, Shimon Schaeffler, the leader of the Jewish
> Kultesgemeinde of Storozynetz was shot by the Nazis the day they arrived, but
> we had not known what happened to her.
>
> It can sometimes be very upsetting to make these discoveries, but I believe
> that it is always better to know.
>
> Keep up the good work,
>
> Marc
>
>
> Marc M. Cohen, Arch.D, Architect
> Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA
> TEL +1 650 218-8119 Mobile
>
> -snip-
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