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Soviets release documents from Holocaust archives
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By Howard Rosenberg WASHINGTON (JTA)AB part of a July 29 agreement with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, tho Soviet Union is allowing Westerners for the first time to duplicate its Holocaust archives. The council estimates that the Soviet archives could contain more then a third of all existing Holocaust-related materials, including documents on Nazi actions taken against the 2.5 million Jews in what are now the Soviet republics of Ukraine, Moldavia, Byelorussia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, as well as the rest of the Soviet Union. Neol Sher, who heads the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, which tracka down Nazi war criminals, called the accord a "very good development" because of the Sovli^' "voluminous and extremely insightful documantary evidotoe" on war crimea. "Thira'a no way of Imowlaad to addlttDnal proaooutiooa, Sbar aaid, "but I think it will be very uaeful to our office." The reciprocal agreement waa aigned in Moacow by Milea Larman, chairman of the Holocaust council's international relations committee, and Evgeny Kozhevnikov, firat deputy director of the Soviet Cmtral Archive Admtaiitratlon of the USSR Cowcil of Ministers.
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Lerman said the council had been seeking the agreement for years but that it took just two days to negotiate it once his six-member delegation arrived. He said that many of the documents are deteriorating, and are being photocopied on microfilm and microfiche to extend their shelflife to more than 300 years. After the agreement was signed, "we immediately got to work," Lerman said. The delegation spent two weeks visiting archives in Moscow as well as in some of the western republics. "We saw glunpaes of information on everything, about Latvian attitudes toward Jews, about Lithuanian secret police, statistics on the movement of Jews (and) correspondence of Nan officers," sak) Raul Hilberg, a preeminent Hdocauat scholar at the Univeraity of Vermont. The accord fdUowa the council's Fab. 16 exchanga agraemaDt with Yad Va-
AminlvaaiYadVadMn will have accaaa to the Soviet Holooauat celleetion through tha U.S. tranamiasion effort. Laat Auguat, the council signed its first accord with a foraign entity, Poland's Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimea in Poland/Institute of National Remembrance. The council is hoping to next reach agraamant with the Holocauat atcUvaa of
Hungary and Czechoslovakia, Lerman said. The new access, which Lerman attributed to the new policy of glasnoet under Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, is in stark contrast to the previous Soviet practice of releasing its records only for specific war crimes trials. The dociiments Include details not known to the West until now, including statistics on the annihilation of Galician Jewry during deportation in 1942; Latvian attitudes toward Jews in 1943; preparations for resistance in the Kovno ghetto in 1944; and maps and Jewish police records of the Vilna ghetto.
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