Dear Friends,
No one, no person owns the heritage. Please be assured that the heritage does not belong to me, nor does it belong to Shaposhnikova. It belongs to the institutions, which, we hope, will continue far into the future. We both are employees of our institutions, not owners. I do imagine, though, that the two approaches to the heritage will remain different, as they are now. I will not speak for M.Ts.R.'s, but I can tell you that our archive will remain open. We continue to scan as much and as fast as we can, and intend to put it all on the Internet, for everyone to be able to see. The heritage is legally the property of the institutions, but in truth, on a deeper level, belongs to everyone. Daniel Entin
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