The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany is establishing Worldwide Shoah Memoirs Collection in electronic form. Its purpose is collection of previously unpublished or unavailable memoirs written by survivors of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel is serving as Honorary Chairman for this program. Joining in this effort are Yad Vashem, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Jewish Historical Institute and the Holocaust Survivors Memoirs Project.

At this time, we are concentrating on the urgent collection of unpublished manuscripts in electronic form. Our purpose is to find and save previously unpublished or unavailable memoirs. We will keep them for future generations who will not be able to meet survivors first-hand. Simply put, time is running out and this is our last chance to collect as many Holocaust survivor written testimonies as possible.

Documents in this electronic, collection will be made available to appropriate organizations and individuals to assist them in their critical work of research and documentation of the Shosh. In order to achieve a truly international appeal to authors, their families, and right-holders to submit manuscripts, we are asking for relevant organizations in all countries to joint us in this effort.

We are asking you to encourage all survivors and their families to submit their manuscripts. Your role would be to disseminate information about the program in any way you feel appropriate.

It is our hope that you will joint us in what we believe will be a truly worldwide last major effort in regard to memoirs dedicated to Holocaust knowledge and memory.

You may send information on e-mail: hesed_almaty@mail.ru or hesed_polina@mitsva.kz

We need your help. We are requesting that you join au in this historic initiative!

Greg Schneider