"People sentenced to death used to take advantage of the last hours to say goodbye to their loved ones," says Floriane Azoulay, director of the Arolsen Archives"Our mandate today is to find the recipients of the letters and their families, to fulfill the last wishes of those unjustly condemned at Stadelheim [the large public prison in Munich, where the Nazis executed a thousand people] and to redress this historical wrong. This can be of enormous significance for the families," he adds.