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caust. The funding has sim-
ply not kept up with Yad
Vashem's burgeoning, hal-
lowed mission.
"Thday large archives in
Eastern Europe are open to
Yad Vashem — in Poland,
Hungary and Rumania," says
Dr. Arad. "There are millions
of documents. We must send
people there. Every document
costs 15 or 20 cents to photo-
copy. So when you're talking
about documents, it's hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars
just for the material itself," he
says.
He adds that countries like
Germany destroy court docu-
ments after a certain period
elapses if they are no longer
germane to pending cases in
that country. Thousands of
documents could be lost for-
ever if action is not taken
quickly to retrieve them.
"In addition, Holocaust
survivors are dying every
year — we must find them
before they die, and take their
testimony. We must find out
what happened in their small
town or city. If we don't find
them, we lose a piece of his-
tory, because there are not
many of them left," the Yad
Vashem Chairman stresses.
Those who make use of the
archives echo Arad's con-
cerns. Ephraim Zuroff, Direc-
tor of the Israel Office of the
Wiesenthal Center, ascribes
"a lot of my success" in track-
ing down Nazi war criminals
around the world to the ma-
terial available at Yad
Vashem.
"Everyone in Holocaust
research should be very in-
debted to Yad Vashem," says
Zuroff, adding. "The Govern-
ment should make an effort
from a moral point of view" to
solve the crisis.
If the money is not forth-
coming, Nazi-hunters like
Zuroff and others who use
Yad Vashem's extensive docu-
ments may be cut off from
one of the most important set
of documents to become
available to Yad Vashem in re-
cent memory.
The UN War Crimes file —
40,000 files containing vital
information — is now within
Yad Vashem's reach. The in-
stitution's financial plight
has raised the question of
whether or not these vital
files will ever get to
Jerusalem.
"There are two possibilities:
Asking permission to photo-
copy all 40,000 files, then go
over it here, which requires
personnel, or requesting
specific files of criminals,
which might be several thou-
sand files. Either way, it
means sending people there,
so that they can go over the
files. Then you have to look
after them," says Arad.
Asked if a special fund
could be collected for this
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