The International Tracing Service, which stores information about inmates of Nazi concentration camps, will open its vast archives to researchers by next year, a senior official of the International Committee of the Red Cross said Wednesday. The decision to open the files of the Red Cross-run service was made during the committee's annual meeting, held this week in Jerusalem, after years of debate, ICRC director for international law Francois Bugnion said. The German-based and funded organization, which was founded in 1943 by the British Red Cross, has information relating to 17 million deportees, including Jews and non-Jews. Along with the...