[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 104 (Tuesday, July 7, 2015)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1006-E1007]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                HONORING THE RAVENSBRUCK ARCHIVE PROJECT

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                             HON. TED LIEU

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 7, 2015

  Mr. TED LIEU of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the 
Ravensbruck Archive Project.
  The Ravensbruck Concentration camp was the Nazi's largest and central 
internment camp for women and children during the Holocaust. Between 
1939 and 1945, over 130,000 prisoners passed through Ravensbruck and 
its satellite camps.
  The Ravensbruck Archive is an international archive that provides a 
critical link to the history of the Holocaust. Many of the documents in 
the Archive have been hidden for the past 70 years, but now because of 
the Ravensbruck Archive Project, the material will be translated, 
digitized, and shared with the world via the web and a world traveling 
exhibit. The Ravensbruck Archive Project will preserve and make 
accessible this important piece of history for generations to come.
  The Ravensbruck Archive is housed at Lund University in Sweden. The 
Archive includes more than 500 handwritten interviews with Ravensbruck 
survivors, taken at the time of their liberation in 1946. The Archive 
contains prisoners' notebooks, diaries, letters, poems, recipes, 
photographs, drawings, and official Nazi documents from the 
concentration camp such as lists of prisoners, block books, and 
transcripts of protocols and original documents

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from the Ravensbruck trial in Hamburg in 1946-1947.
  Our community owes the Ravensbruck Archive Project and all those 
involved a debt of gratitude for their tireless hard work and 
dedication. I would especially like to commend my constituent, Robert 
Resnick, for his leadership in this Project. Mr. Resnick is the Chair 
of this important restoration endeavor.
  I ask my colleagues to join me in recognizing the Ravensbruck Archive 
Project.

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