NOTE from DearMYRTLE: The following was just released from our
friends at Ancestry.com. Please address all inquiries to
email@example.com. UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM AND
ANCESTRY.COM LAUNCH WORLD MEMORY PROJECT TO CREATE LARGEST
ONLINE RESOURCE OF INFORMATION ON VICTIMS OF HOLOCAUST AND NAZI
PERSECUTION Millions of Pages of Museum Archives to Be Indexed
and Made Free to All WASHINGTON, D.C./PROVO, Utah – May 3, 2011
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry.com
today announced the launch of the World Memory Project,
www.WorldMemoryProject.org, which will recruit the public to
help to build the world’s largest online resource for
information on Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of
non-Jews who were targeted for persecution by Nazi Germany and
its collaborators. The project will dramatically expand the
number of Museum documents relating to individual victims that
can be searched online. The Museum’s archives contain
information on well over 17 million people targeted by