The remembrance center would also like to see those archives public, because it gets many questions from descendants. “We get eighty to one hundred questions every week via e-mail,” Minco knows. “People desperately need that information because there are many questions. Questions that come up more and more often.” Minco would like to see people get started with their own research. “There is just an enormous need for it.”
Information can hardly be picked up now, says Minco. However, the remembrance center has found a detour to be able to share at least. “But on such a map there is only dry information, while there is actually much more. For example: he has been there and still wrote that and that letter … If you want to understand how your grandfather tried to save his life here, then you can read that on that card. That’s why it is very bad that you cannot offer people that now.”
According to Minco, the dozens of weekly questions are also the tip of the iceberg, because people have already passed a threshold to ask the question at all. “If you don’t know what’s there, you can’t look for it,” she explains. The Remembrance Center helps people as much as possible in their search.
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