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Sunday Frl, 373-645- RETAIL The Daily Herald (ISSN 0891-277USPS 143-060- ) is published morn- SUBSCRIPTIONS Daily Thur, CLASSIFIED ; old, is living in Israel "Of course I'm disappointed because one likes searches like this to end with happy reunions," he said in an interview fied by all 11 nations, survivors in his heme m this Cleveland will be able to see their own files and researchers will be alsuburb. "There's a sense of actual re- lowed to examine them. lief too, because now some of The archive's historical the mystery has been solved," importance became clear in recent months when The Ashe said. sociated Press obtained exFactor, 60, was born Meier Pollak in Munich, Germany, in tensive access to the material 1946 to Romanian-borRosa revealing previously unknown details about the Holocaust. Pollak, also spelled Polak. He In early May, the Red Cross has found documents showoffice in Cleveland gave Factor ing that Rosa Pollak and her newborn son were discharged the message from Magen David Adorn, which investigated from a maternity hospital on his inquiry. The letter was July 9, 1946, and soon after d went to a United relayed through the Holocaust and War Victims Tracing and hospital for refugees in Information Center of the Munich, Within days they beAmerican Red Cross in Balticame separated. Factor was adopted in 1950 more, which has checked on more than 40,000 people missby an American couple in Belmont, Mass., and began looking since the Holocaust and ing for his biological mother in World War II and found more than 1,200 alive. earnest in 1990. The International Tracing Factor, a retired high school Service archive in Bad Arol-seteacher, said he was holding out hope that his mother might Germany, provided a n documents offering change her mind and agree to meet, or at least exchange tidbits about Factor and his NEWS TIPS: On nights and weekends, call 344-255At other times, contact an editor above. CORRECTIONS: The Herald corrects errors of fact appearing In Its news and opinion columns. If you have a correction, call 344-258- HOME DELIVERY The I ar fatxutrvt Editor 3 -t- letter brought a bitterswe end to Sol Factor's search for his mother, a H&-locaust survivor who disap peared in the aftermath of World WarH: "We regret to inform yof that we located the above mentioned person, but she would not like to be contacted by the inquirer," reads the messagf from Magen David Adorn, the Israeli counterpart of the American Red Cross. Factor, who had found clues to his past with the help of the Red Cross and a vast archive of Nazi records, knows only that his mother, now 83 years Street address: 1555 N. Freedom Blvd., Pf ova, UT Send meal to: P.O. Box 717, Provo, UT 846030717 mother, including a handwritten notation that she might have been headed to Palestine. That reference helped Factor direct his research to Israel and its refugee resettlement records. The ITS archive, operated by the International Committee of the Red Cross, holds an estimated 30 million to 50 million pages of Nazi concentration camp documents. Since 1955, it has handled more than 11 million requests for information, but under the international agreement that governs the collection it rarely has allowed anyone but Red Cross staff to see the material In AprU, an agreement to unseal the long closed archive J ASSOCIATED PRESS www.heraldextr&com 375-510- Sunday, May 11 2007 A L D mother 801-344-25- FAX Director H E Woman say s'she won't meet son 375-510- 3 ToH free Advertising L V Nazi archives help find long-lo- st Established in 1873 A Lee Newspaper Customer Service A I contents Copyright O 2007, Daily Herald. Any reproduction or other use is strictly prohibited n, without written permission. half-doze- TONY Press DEJAKAssociated about his search for his mother May 9 in search for his mother, Beachwood, Ohio. After a a Holocaust survivor who disappeared in the aftermath of World War II, Factor received the bittersweet news that she is living in Israel, but doesn't want to see him. Sol Factor talks 17-ye-ar notes. Speculating on a possible reason why his mother didn't want to meet him, he said: "Many survivors, they want to put the past behind and not have it brought back to them." He also wonders if perhaps she was an unwed mother. "It is very possible that this is a very, shall we say, embarrassing, traumatic chapter in her life," said Factor. Johanna Gottesfeld, director of the Jerusalem branch of Amcha, a group that assists Holocaust survivors, was not familiar with the Factor case, but she said the mother's reluctance to speak could be related to some trauma she experienced. "It's very threatening to open up emotionally to all the feelings it might bring up. It might bring out things that she might have a very difficult time dealing with afterward," she said. A reunion could ignite bad memories, Gottesfeld said. "It might bring back all sorts of things that in order to continue to live, and not to become too depressed, to build a life she had to put aside," she said. Factor has a friend in Israel making inquiries about his mother but said there were limits to his pursuit. "You don't show up on the doorstep pounding," he said. "There's no way I would do that. That's an invasion. Would I like to send her a letter? If she would be willing to receive a letter from me, sure, I'd like , to do that." I Associated Press reporter Aron Heller in Jerusalem and AP Investigative Researcher Randy Herschaft in New York also contributed to this report. the Net: I Red CrossMagen David Adorn: http:www.redcross. On orgmda I Red Cross Tracing Center: http:www.redcross.orgl servicesintlholotrace I Amcha: http:www. amcha. orgAndexEn.htm I Int'l Tracing Service: http: www. Don't you love it wm when a good thing gets even better? 4 if V Now your South Towne and University Mall Macy's has an even greater selection offashion, and more designer names than ever. 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