(AP/Indianapolis Star) James Hannah - When Malka Shaham began taking care of her ailing father at her home in Israel during the final years of his life - when he no longer had full control of his words and thoughts - for the first time he began speaking of the Holocaust, which he had survived. Sometimes the revelations came during nightmares. "In his sleep he was shouting that the Nazis were beating and degrading him," she said. Shaham decided to find out everything she could about what her parents had endured in Poland during World War II, finding clues in an online database of survivors and victims of the genocide that killed some 6 million Jews, compiled by a Wittenberg University music professor in Springfield, Ohio. In 2003, Dan Kazez founded the Czestochowa-Radomsko Area Research Group, which locates, types, and indexes records of survivors and victims, using survivor lists, slave labor lists, ghetto registrations, real-estate indexes, and census data.
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