Researchers in Germany's Federal Archive have compiled a list of around 600,000 German Jews persecuted under the Nazi regime. The list has now been given to the Israeli Holocaust memorial institution Yad Vashem. It contains the names of Jews who lived in Germany from 1933 to 1945 and gives information such as addresses and deportation dates. The index is also to be distributed to other leading archives to help descendants research the fate of their families.
Privacy laws prevent the full release of the list to the public for the moment. The list is not definitive and will require more work to make it more accurate, officials from Germany's Remembrance, Responsibility and Future Foundation, which compiled it, pointed out. The list was drawn up over a period of four years.
