Who is it that has any intellectual property rights over the letters written by victims of the Holocaust? And how did anyone acquire the rights to deny anyone else access to their being viewed??? What obscenities!

Thank you YNet for this story. It needed to be told. Here is another: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_St._Louis

Quote article:"A YIVO volunteer discovered the correspondence among the millions of documents in its archives in mid-2005, but the institute had to resolve copyright issues before putting them on display. " Quote Stude Ham:" Who is it that has any intellectual property rights over the letters written by victims of the Holocaust?" -> Copyright rests with the descendents/family of Anne and Otto Frank. No acquisition, no obscenity. There is an Anne Frank Museum in the house in Amsterdam she sheltered in, it is also the guardian of some 'rights' relating to Anne. It is visited mainly by AngloSaxon tourists and schoolgroups(I made a visit in 4th grade). Of course Anne wanted to be a writer, not an object of a museum. The fact that she's become such an icon is because of her Diary-which again belongs to her and the copyright went to her descendents/family/the museum.

Copyright? Belongint to descendants? Over letters written a half century ago by Holocaust victim? Nonsense! There is only a copyright issue because one chooses to interpose that issue. In general, at least in the USA, to be copyrighted at that time, the work had to be identified at the time of its creation as copyrighted, be published under a reservation of copyright, and filed with the appropriate government office. And, in those days, even if copyrighted, the copyright expired after a relatively modest term of years, far less than the half century since WWII! Suggesting that these letters are copyrighted is just plain horse manure, interposed by someone trying to make excuses and/or a fast buck.

America obviously not such great jew lovers. When some american jews tell me how great America is, I usually laugh. USA didnt even want to enter the war. Only after Pearl Harbor was demolished by Japan did USA act.

he refused to let Jews, fleeing the Nazi regime into the U.S. He didn't acknowledge the existence of the death camps (politically uncomfortable). He supported the Arabists and ant-Zionists in the decidedly anisemitic State Department. And he was, and is beloved by the "progressive" Jews for his confiscatory tax policies..

The Republicans were not better at that time. Have you read the book of Philip Roth? It is from the southern USA that Jew hate was the highest. Even today, it is hard for Jews in Alabama, Luisiana or Texas. The locals do not like them...

If you knew anything about U.S. history, you'd know that it was right-wing Republicans in control of the government who passed the strict immigration laws in the mid 1920s which prevented Jews like Frank from emigrating to the U.S. Don't use this example to grind your axe about FDR's supposed "confiscatory tax policies."

The fact is that doors were closed to Jews during the Nazi years. Democrats or Republicans, it didn't matter. And Jewish Americans did not do enough to help either. Israel has been pushed by Democrats and Republicans to make concessions that weaken the country and jeopardize its future security. And Jewish Americans are parroting the same self-hating script as the Israeli Left. History repeats itself.