MUNICH, April 15 — If it wasn’t for the Arolsen Archives, half-sisters Sula Miller and Helen Schaller would never have met. American Miller and German Schaller only recently...
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Mendel Mueller, a Jew born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was incarcerated in two Nazi concentration camps: Buchenwald in northern Germany and Auschwitz in what was then occupied Poland. Shortly after the war, Mueller had married a German woman—the mother of his daughter Helen, born in 1947. The archive was originally set up by the Allies in early 1946 as the International Tracing Service to help people find relatives who had disappeared during the war.
But from the 1950s onwards, as many of the survivors left the country, German staff numbers increased.And it is still handling around 20,000 enquiries per year, according to Azoulay, often from children or grandchildren of victims or survivors who want to know what happened to them.Now almost 80, Ben is still hoping to shed light on the fate of his father’s family, who were left behind when he escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto.Ben’s father “never talked about ... and we never asked him about it.
The archives at Bad Arolsen include documents issued by the Nazi party, such as Gestapo arrest warrants, lists of people to be transported to the camps and camp registers.
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