Germany's Saxon Memorials in Memory of Political Terror Victims public union has passed to Ukraine an electronic database on 60,000 World War II Ukrainian prisoners.
The ceremony of passing the information was conducted in the hall of
declassified archives of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) with the
participation of SBU Head Valentyn Nalyvaichenko and German Ambassador
to Ukraine Hans-Jurgen Heimsoeth in Kyiv on September 29.
The electronic database contains personal record cards kept in
concentration camps on prisoners of war during World War II. The cards
include personal information on the prisoners, in particular, photos,
distinguishing marks, information on what camp they were kept in, if
they were treated in hospital and other details.
According to the SBU press center, the information received will be
passed to everybody requesting it to find data on relatives who were
former Soviet prisoners of war and who were imprisoned in concentration
camps in Germany.
