From Slate.com a fascinating and revelatory story about the International Tracing Service, an internationally-managed archive of the Holocaust, heretofore closed to the public. The Jewish woman writing the story, Sarah Wildman, goes to Germany to gauge the importance of the recently opened archive for historians, victims and victim's families. She is also looking for a piece of her own past; the archive affords her the chance to learn the fate of the Jewish woman who wrote her grandfather loving, demanding letters from war-era Berlin. It's an interesting story from her individual perspective but I'm compelled by the existence of the archive, it's seeming profoundness and mystery, and why I never knew about it.
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