Germany to Allow Opening of Huge Holocaust Archive – dw.com
Germany agreed Tuesday to support opening a massive trove of World War II records on 17.5 million victims of the Nazi regime, after six decades of highly restricted access.
Butuh Berapa Lama Indonesia Ungkap Kebenaran? – dw.com
Butuh waktu 60 tahun bagi Jerman untuk setuju membuka arsip milik Nazi. Butuh berapa lama Indonesia ungkap kebenaran kasus-kasus HAM, termasuk tragedi 1965? | Opini Monique Rijkers*.
Paul Saphiro menyatakan, ‘Informasi terkait ITS harus berada di tangan penyintas dan keluarga korban, ini adalah kewajiban moral dari kita yang hidup.” Selain itu data ITS merupakan tambang emas untuk riset mengenai Holocaust karena banyak pula penyintas yang masih anak-anak saat berada di kamp konsentrasi.
Namun, satu hal yang terpenting Paul Saphiro menegaskan, ITS membantah penolakan banyak orang terhadap Holocaust. Berkat ITS maka kebenaran sejarah bisa dibuktikan. ITS menyimpan seluruh data terkait persekusi, pemindahan paksa, kerja paksa dan Holocaust oleh Nazi dengan jumlah mencapai lebih dari 50 juta halaman dokumen yang berkaitan dengan nasib lebih dari 17,5 juta orang.
Testimony of Paul A. Shapiro Director of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies United States
Who would believe that six decades after the end of World War II an archival repository of 35 to 50 million pages of documentation relating to the fates of 17.5 million people victimized by the Nazis would remain virtually inaccessible to survivors and their families and absolutely closed to scholarly and other research? Who would believe that 11 democratic governments, including our own, have exercised supervisory control over the repository and thus, whether knowingly or not, or placing a higher value on diplomatic consensus than on human compassion, bore responsibility for keeping the documentation hidden? And who would believe that those governments and the International Committee of the Red Cross—all with admirable records of humanitarian good deeds, and many with very positive records of confronting Holocaust-related issues—appeared ready to see the last remnant of the Holocaust survivor generation disappear from our midst without providing them with the reassurance that the records of what happened to them and to the loved ones they lost would not be conveniently kept under wraps? No one would believe it, and yet this has been the situation.
Paul A. Shapiro Opening the Archives of the International Tracing Service (ITS) How did it happen? What does it mean?
The archives of the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany, contains over 50 million World War II era documents relating to the fates of over 17.5 million people. Using samples and case studies, Paul Shapiro, who led the campaign to open the archives, will provide an insider’s view of the years-long effort to open the collections for research and discuss the importance of this recent event for Holocaust survivors, other victims of National Socialism, and scholars. Paul Shapiro is Director of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Before joining the Museum, he served in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the United States Information Agency and Department of State, where he was responsible for the Fulbright Fellowship Program and other major international exchange programs. Earlier, he was an Editor of the journal Problems of Communism and Editor in Chief of the Journal of International Affairs. Mr. Shapiro also served as a consultant to the Board for International Broadcasting, Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty, and the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI).
Upaya Pencarian dan ‘Database’ Nama Enam Juta Korban (Meninggal) Holocaust. *telah menanti ‘Pekerjaan Rumah’ Besar Advokasi Kasus dan Korban Genosida 1965-1966
‘Paper Cadavers” : Terbongkarnya Arsip Kediktatoran Dan Kejahatan Kemanusiaan Guatemala (1960-1996)
Menelisik Arsip-arsip Peristiwa ‘1965 dan Ke-(tidak?)-terbukaan Akses Publik Atas Koleksi Arsip Nasional Republik Indonesia (ANRI)
Genocide Files / Berkas Genosida Indonesia : Arsip Militer Malang, Banyuwangi, Aceh Terkait Genosida 1965-1966 – Kajian Grace Leksana, Ahmad Nashih Luthfi, Jess Melvin
(gerilya kalangan akademis mendapatka arsip militer)
