[Cz-L]Request for Your Assistance on Learning About Archive Access Problems For Holocaust & Holocaust Era Records

I will be talking in Europe in June on access to Holocaust and Holocaust era
records. I am asking you for your assistance on problems you may have
incurred when trying to access these Holocaust records. Not all records are
birth, marriage, death or census records. These records could be
institutional records, passport, transit visas, concentration camp records,
property records, art works and other similar documents. With respect to
access to archives, either in person or by written communication, had you
encountered problems or obstacles with respect to the availability of the
records. I do not mean if the records are not on the Internet and
therefore, they are not accessible from the comfort on our homes.

The scope of this covers not only vital records from 1860-1948-the time
frame people in the holocaust may have been alive to just after the
Holocaust and includes displaced persons camp records. We need to know who
was there in order to know who is no longer there- which is why I am also
asking about records that would tell us who was alive at the time-i.e.
starting in the 1860's the outside date of someone still alive in 1939-1945.
If you know the person died before the Holocaust please do not reply that
you can't get their records-this is for people ALIVE at the beginning of the
Holocaust. I am looking for information on access problems-whether a
government agency or private archive ignored your request, refused access
to the records, the records were not researchable when at the archives, the
cost of obtaining the records was prohibitive, in other words obstacles you
may have encountered from a government archive or private archive for
archival documents that cover the Holocaust or Holocaust era type
governments.

I would appreciate hearing back with the following: name of country, archive
and the type of access problem you incurred. We recognize that some
countries have specific time embargoes before records may be accessible-and
that is an access impediment that can be submitted. I would appreciate your
objective comments and not "complaints" as we need to know where and what
the problems are before we can try to get changes.

On the other hand, if you had a positive experience I would also like to
hear about that as positive examples to show others is helpful.

I would appreciate hearing from you before April 30.

Thank you in advance for your assistance - please email me directly at:

Jan Meisels Allen
janmallen_at_att.net
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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