My FIL is doing a project for the museum. I'm blanking on the exact details, but I believe it involves looking at primary source materials written in Hebrew (which he reads fluently) and *maybe* Yiddish and getting the information into a database.
IIRC, it has to do with tracking who survived from what small towns and where they went, but I could be wrong about that. I remember a whole explanation about the difficulty of figuring out Polish towns when they'd been transliterated into Hebrew. Whew.
As I said, the problem is that I don't want to argue that history isn't personal, because it *is* and I've been trying to tell people that for years :D But...as you say, just because you can't find it on the Internet doesn't mean the information isn't out there.
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Re: Siccing researchers on it
Date: 2008-05-07 11:27 pm (UTC)IIRC, it has to do with tracking who survived from what small towns and where they went, but I could be wrong about that. I remember a whole explanation about the difficulty of figuring out Polish towns when they'd been transliterated into Hebrew. Whew.
As I said, the problem is that I don't want to argue that history isn't personal, because it *is* and I've been trying to tell people that for years :D But...as you say, just because you can't find it on the Internet doesn't mean the information isn't out there.