An index containing the names and other details of the history of some 27,000 prisoners at the Mauthausen and associated concentration camps have been made available to the International Tracing Service at Arolsen, Germany, by the General Sikorsky Historical Institute of London. The ITS’ attention was drawn to these files by the World Jewish Congress. An estimated 12 percent of the listings in these files were previously unknown to the ITS.
It was reported from Warsaw that the Soviet War Veterans Committee had turned over to the Union of Fighters for Freedom and Democracy, a group representing former Polish underground fighters and inmates of Nazi prison camps, documents concerning the Auschwitz concentration camp. The documents tell the story of the building of crematoria at the camp by German firms and list some 2,000 persons murdered by the Nazis at the camp shortly before its liberation.
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