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From: <>
Subject: Re: Yale Library
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 23:56:11 EST

In a message dated 10/31/99 9:16:07 PM, writes:

<< It seems perfectly plausible to suppose that the librarians chose not to

make the names of individuals available in the index in question in order to

protect their privacy or that of their families. Your posts on the subject,

which so readily make very extreme appeals to emotion, inevitably provoke

skepticism. >>

Based on my work at the Holocaust Center of Northern California, only a
handful of the 1500 survivors who gave testimony in San Francisco put any
restrictions on the distribution of their testimony, which included birth
place and date, and other genealogically-important information. The Center,
of course, did not publish their addresses or phone numbers. But they can be
honored and remembered, and their relatives and friends can locate them
through the center. There are many ways to protect their privacy without
taking away their names.

It is not up to the librarians to make those decisions. The survivors should
be given the choice. From what I understand these survivors are not given
that choice. They are given a "contract" which volunteers their anonymity.

And what is worse, Yale has been given at least $500,000. from the Survivors
of the Shoah organization (Spielberg's organization) to delete the names of
the survivors who gave video testimony to Spielberg with no such privacy
restriction.

How come you are not as enraged as I am?

Robert Weiss

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