Monday Dec 10, 2007
Posted by Schelly Talalay Dardashti
The Arolsen archives opened today (Wednesday, November 28) after 60 years of secrecy.
The last of 11 countries involved in the 2006 agreement, Greece filed papers with the German Foreign Ministry to permit the unsealing.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) _ A vast archive of German war records opened to the public Wednesday, giving historians and Holocaust survivors who have waited more than 60 years access to concentration camp papers detailing Nazi horrors.
The 11 countries that oversee the archive of the International Tracing Service have finished ratifying an accord unsealing some 50 million pages kept in the German town of Bad Arolsen, ITS director Reto Meister said Wednesday.
"The ratification process is complete," said Meister, whose organization is part of the International Committee of the Red Cross. "We are there. The doors are open."
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Marvin T. Cox, Sweetwater, Texas, USA: If DNA tests can determine Jewish ancestry does it identify whether you are of Judah, Levi, or Benjamin? Is there an individual gene identifying each tribe, or a common gene linking all three tribes together as being part of Israel and therefore termed as being Jewish? If so, then could that same concept be used to locate and identify members of the lost ten tribes? Is there a gene which identifies each tribe, or a gene common to all twelve? Should this possibility be researched and explored. Are the ten tribes right under our noses, but we simply do not recognize them?
Marvin T. Cox, Sweetwater, Texas, USA: This is wonderful and exciting news. But, might an ignorant man ask a question: when did Israel become composed solely of one tribe--the Jewish People? Was not, and is not, Israel comprised of twelve tribes of people who, as the Jewish people, were scattered over the face of the earth, and, as the Jewish people, were prophesied in scripture to be returned to the land one day? I say look for your Jewish brethren, bravo, I support your efforts, but do not forget those brethren who are your brethren though they departed from Torah and may not be keeping Torah to this day, but brethren still.
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Dinah, Family Tree DNA president Bennett Greenspan responds:: "BRCA1 and BRCA2 are patented by Myriad Genomics ... NO ONE can test for these unless you work out a patent royalty system with them. For example Myriad charges $450 for 3 variants of BRAC2 while DNATraits changes $450 for 26 other Jewish inherited diseases (and about 100 variants)... "We wish this wasnt patented in the US but it is - if it wasnt we would of course offer it. ...we will probably offer it in Europe where the US patent isnt applicable (because the European Union tossed out the patent in 2004 or 2005). "
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