Germany updates official list of Jews murdered by Nazis in WWII

[Behind the Aegis]

BERLIN - Germany yesterday published a new register of names of all known German Jews killed in the Holocaust, issuing a second edition of a register that was first published 20 years ago and listed only victims from former West Germany.

The four-volume book, containing 150,000 names in alphabetical order, along with vital data and dates of detention, now includes Jews who had lived in eastern Germany and parts of modern-day Poland that were in German hands before World War II.

Historians say up to 600,000 Jews lived in Germany before the rise of the Nazis. The greater part managed to flee.

The new memorial register was compiled by Germany's Federal Archives and corrects the inevitable errors in the first, 1986 edition that was deposited in the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.

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