Email from Hershel Shapiro to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, April 16, 2010

I'm the son of Survivors.

When the Museum opened in 1993, my family and I attended the Opening. At that time, I'm pretty certain that my father, Irving Shapiro of Gering. Nebraska, went through all the steps necessary to register with the Museum.

I'm guessing that when he registered, my father was likely asked for (and would have provided)   information regarding the identities of other members of his family; their fates if known; and, their last-known whereabouts.

In 1993 when my father would have registered with the Musuem, he did not know the fate of his younger brother Abraham, whom he had last seen in 1942 when Abraham was taken from their shared barracks in Majdanek.

My father died in 1996. Two years later I recieved infromation from the American Red Cross that led me to investigate and subsequently confirm the fate of Abraham, my father's younger brother.

Again, this was information which my father did not know at the time he registered with the Museum.

My reason for writing is to ask whether the Museum seeks to collect and supplement its existing archives with later-acquired information such as that I obtained about my father's brother, subsequent to my father's death?

If so, I would kindly ask you how and to whom I should convey the new information I've obtained since my father's passing?

If I've directed this inquiry to the wrong person or department, would you please be so kind as to re-direct it to the appropriate one? Or if you can't, please tell me where and to whom I should direct it?