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Israeli, Polish high school students cooperate in project with survivors

By Yuval Azoulay

Dozens of Polish high school students are slated to become virtual pen pals with their Israeli peers as part of a project called Relationet, which involves Polish students in Israeli efforts to locate the living relatives and friends of Holocaust survivors.

The expansion of the project was set in motion by the person who developed it: Zvi Schwartzman, who is in charge of Internet enterprises for the Afeka College of Engineering in Tel Aviv. Schwartzman returned from Poland a few days ago - in time to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day today in Israel - after arranging to have the project include 16-year-olds from schools in Warsaw and Lodz.

Hundreds of 11th-grade students in central Israel have been taking part in Relationet for the past two years; they have interviewed Holocaust survivors, and put up their stories - as well as photos of family members killed in the Holocaust - on blogs.



As a result of the information put on the Internet, said Schwartzman, dozens of Holocaust survivors have located relatives, friends and acquaintances.

The next few years constitute history's "last window of opportunity" for the dwindling number of living Holocaust survivors, said Schwartzman, whose mother is numbered in that group. He said the Internet era has given the approximately 300,000 survivors - 80,000 of whom are living in Israel - a newfound hope of locating long-lost family and friends


http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/848736.html

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