Small Victory

An email I just received from Yad Vashem:

Dear Ms. Grishman,

Thank you for your letters about the records commemorating Siegfried and Alice Peltesohn of Berlin, Germany.

We are, of course, always pleased to discover that Jews designated as “perished” by our documentation notes actually survived the Holocaust, and we deeply regret any distress caused by our listing your great-grandparents as the Holocaust victims.

Please note that according to the documents existing at Yad Vashem stating that Siegfried Peltesohn and Alice Peltesohn nee Maas are survivors, we will update our database to this effect.

As a result of this change, the records regarding Siegfried and Alice Peltesohn will no longer appear in our online database, which is defined as a database of those who perished.

Please note that as the Internet version of the Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names is only updated every few months, it may be some time until you can see the corrections we have made in the online database.

In order to update our records and to have all details of your great-grandparents' Shoah experiences documented at Yad Vashem, we would appreciate your filling out the Shoah Survivors' Registration Forms for them. Blank Form please find attached.

Please fill out a separate Form for each person, sign and date, attach the survivors' photos and mail them unfolded to:

Yad Vashem
Hall of Names
P.O.Box 3477
Attention: Rimma Lerman
Jerusalem 91034
Israel

The names of survivors are removed from the Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names and are entered into the Shoah Survivors Database, which is now being compiled, but is not yet online.

Thank you for your assistance in improving our database.

Sincerely,

Rimma Lerman
Hall of Names

After all the sorrow I felt while going through the Shoah Names Database over the last two days, it is so, so amazingly gratifying to be able to remove them from that horrible list.

I'll fill it out tomorrow.