Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Maitland's Holocaust connection

From the Maitland Mercury report:
Maitland’s connection to Jewish victims of the Holocaust and non-Jews targeted for persecution by Nazi Germany and its collaborators may be revealed as part of a worldwide online project.
Ancestry.com.au has teamed up with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to launch the World Memory Project to build the world’s largest online resource for information on victims of the Holocaust.
Maitland historian and co-researcher of the Maitland Jewish Cemetery Project, Dr Janis Wilton said the World Memory Project was a fantastic concept that also hit close to home.

Full article by Emma Swain available at Maitland Mercury, 06 May, 2011.