The directors of the International Tracing Service, which maintains central files concerned with the fate of millions of concentration camp victims, held its annual meeting here, conferring for the first time at the offices of the Israel Mission to West Germany. Leo Savir, deputy director of the Israel Mission, presided. The ITS, administered by the International Red Cross, keeps its central files at Arolsen, West Germany, near Cologne.
Attending the meeting were representatives of eight member-states of the International Red Cross; Roger Gallopin, executive director of the International Red Cross, and Felix Schnyder, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, who came here from their respective headquarters at Geneva; and Nicholas Burkhardt, director of the International Tracing Service.
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