Mr Owen said police did not know who they were and urged anyone with any information or who may have missing relatives to contact them.
Mr. Kerdasi said 600 people had been reported missing by relatives who came to the hospital to try to find them; 113 pictures of missing people are posted on the hospital's emergency ward walls.
"Most wives will never get that opportunity," she said of the others who are still searching for missing relatives.
When she visited the northern city of Jaffna she met Tamil families who complained to her about missing relatives, military land grabs and life without basic facilities.
Most of those who collected the gray boxes containing seized documents did so on behalf of deceased grandparents and other missing relatives.
Holocaust survivors who came to Palestine and later to the nascent state of Israel were focused on rebuilding their lives and tracing missing relatives, not recovering lost property.
Many have missing relatives, too".
"My friend has lost 15 relatives today," said Andreia Mattos, who was spending her 45th birthday outside the city's morgue last night surrounded by masked doctors and weeping locals desperately seeking information about missing relatives.
Fathers and brothers wandered battlefields in search of missing relatives.
They are not missing relatives or close friends.
