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worked on farms and in cities, they
assisted professionals, they worked
for the churches. They worked for
many, many German companies.
If they failed to behave, they could
find themselves shifted to the slave
system in a concentration camp. This
system was part of the huge upheaval
in European society during the war,
and it has been understudied to the
present.
ITS holdings also include the mate-
rials of some 350,000 displaced per-
sons who piled up in the DP camps
in the American, British, and French
zones after the war.
Some of these records are remark-
ably full, and can be the basis for
further study of the upheaval of
Europe. That upheaval and its conse-
quences had global implications, as
the Displaced Persons (DP) — former
concentration camp inhabitants,
forced laborers, and displaced people
of all backgrounds —migrated every-
where in the globe.
Imagine the possibilities, moreover,
of effectively linking records across
the ITS collection — camp, forced
labor, and DP records! None of this
has been done to date because the
focus has been researching names
(individuals), not doing history.
Finally, ITS holdings include the
administrative materials of all the
requests made by persons for infor-
mation since the 1950s, when the
service was established. Here there are
possibilities of studying elements of
global memory about the Holocaust,
like when requests picked up or died
away, from where they came, who sent
them, whether they were individuals
or institutions and agencies, and if
the requests were tied to compensa-
tion legislation or to the social cur-
rents of post-war memory. ITS still
protects the privacy of requests under
25 years old, but this collection too
is a treasure trove for research 1950s
to1980s.
We were impressed with the cur-
rent leadership, Director Reto Meister,
Irmtrud Wojak, the new historical
director, and Udo Jost, the longtime
archivist, who knows well what ITS
contains and has ideas about reorga-
nizing the collection.
New challenges remain in areas
of document preservation and care,
making finding aids and tapping the
knowledge of a large staff. We came
away believing that our hosts are
deeply committed to realizing the
archive's potential and will work cre-
atively to build something new.
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Lab Dedicated
At Technion
Haifa
0
n the heels of Israel's 60th
birthday, former Detroiter
Shirlee Jacobs, now of
Boca Raton, Fla., was honored at
the dedication of the Femtosecond
Laser Laboratory at the Faculty of
Chemistry of the Technion-Israel
Institute of Technology.
The laboratory, in memory of
Jacobs' daughter Debra Jo Jacobs
and granddaughter Miya Jo, was
dedicated on May 26 during the
annual American Technion Society
Mission to Israel.
A total of 102 ATS supporters
pledged more than $16 million
during the mission.
"I am honored to provide this
necessary support for the Faculty
of Chemistry. The Technion does
amazing things, and supporting
this institution gives me great joy:'
Jacobs said.
The laser laboratory produces
extremely short pulses of light
— one millionth of one millionth
of a second in duration, or 10 fem-
toseconds.
These pulses of light, shined
on tiny molecules, could help law
enforcement detect explosives or be
used to improve biomedical imag-
ing by targeting tissues that have
certain molecules that are receptive
to these pulses.
Shirlee Jacobs founded the Metro
Detroit-based Buddy's Restaurant
& Pizzeria chain.
She is a Technion Guardian, a
distinction reserved for those who
have reached the highest level of
support. ❑
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