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#everynamecounts: An interesting project for students

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Scan of an extraction from the Berlin “Auswandererkartei”.

Photo credit: State Archives of Bremen

Participation is easy: everynamecounts.arolsen-archives.org

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#everynamecounts key visual challenge 2024

The destruction wreaked on the archive in Vysokopillya

 

Photo credit: Dina Shelest

The archive building in Vysokopillya has yet to be cleared of mines.

 

Photo credit: Dina Shelest

Scanning in progress in the regional archives of Vinnytsia with scanners provided by the Arolsen Archives.

 

Photo credit: Hanna Lehun

Sign on the main building of the Arolsen Archives

The German town of Bad Arolsen is home to the world’s largest archive on the victims and survivors of the Nazi regime.

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Floriane Azoulay

Floriane Azoulay has been director of the Arolsen Archives since January 2016.

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The Nazi era as a test of courage: strange fascination and high receptiveness of Gen Z

Key Visual 

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Crowdsourcing initiative by the Arolsen Archives

#everynamecounts (Media installation at the French Embassy in Berlin)

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#everynamecounts: Build a digital memorial with us!

The Nazis persecuted and murdered millions of people. Build a digital memorial with us!

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#everynamecounts: Crowdsourcing initiative by the Arolsen Archives

To ensure that the online archive of the Arolsen Archives keeps growing, the crowdsourcing initiative #everynamecounts was launched.

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#StolenMemory Tour started in France

20 towns in 18 months: Thanks to funding from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, our #StolenMemory traveling exhibition is touring France until the end of 2024.

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Searching and Found: #StolenMemory traveling exhibition

With four converted overseas containers, the #StolenMemory traveling exhibition is on the road in Germany, Poland and France.

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#StolenMemory traveling exhibition 

Visitors to the #StolenMemory exhibition in Brussels.

Photo credit: Belgium Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation

Personal effects of Helma Swaczyk

The Arolsen Archives still hold the last personal possessions of some 2500 concentration camp prisoners. 

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Personal effects of Warwara Zenzura

A watch and some jewelry, a wedding ring and some documents, a few letters and photos. The Nazis took people’s personal belongings away from them in the concentration camps.

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Personal effects of the young Jean

Since the campaign began, we have found over 750 families around the world – more than 120 of them in France. Some search cases from France have yet to be solved. One such case is the mysterious story of a young Frenchman.

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The Arolsen Archives Online Archive

Almost all of the 30 million original documents in the Arolsen Archives are already available online. 

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Rising numbers of inquiries about the victims of Nazi persecution

View of the archive and the database with scanned documents.

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Rising numbers of inquiries about the victims of Nazi persecution

Documents from the Arolsen Archives (individual documents of a concentration camp inmate).

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The Arolsen Archives Online Tool

New Information on the Survivors of Nazi Persecution: The e-Guide uses interactive elements to describe documents in a way that is easy to understand.

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The Arolsen Archives Permanent Exhibition

The permanent exhibition guides visitors through seven decades of tracing missing persons and documenting NS persecution.

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Millions of documents in the archive

The Arolsen Archives are the international center on Nazi persecution with the world’s most comprehensive archive on the victims and survivors of National Socialism.

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A look into the archive

The collection has information on about 17.5 million people and belongs to UNESCO’s Memory of the World.

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Central Name Index

Storage of the Central Name Index up until 2017. Then the 50 million reference cards on 17.5 million people, which are included on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register, were repacked in state-of-the-art archive boxes.

Photo credit: Arolsen Archives, Photo: Cornelis Gollhardt

A Look into the Central Name Index

The Central Name Index is the key to the collection of the Arolsen Archives, previously known as International Tracing Service (ITS). It has been the most relevant working tool for the search for traces over many decades.

Photo credit: Arolsen Archives, Photo: Cornelis Gollhardt

35 million documents about victims of Nazi persecution online

Transport list from one of the so-called transports of the elderly which took old-aged Jewish people from Berlin to the Theresienstadt ghetto (Terezin).

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Prisoner card from the Buchenwald concentration camp

One of many millions of documents from the Arolsen Archives which are available online

Photo credit: Arolsen Archives, Photo: Andreas Greiner-Napp

Documents on various victim groups

The collection documents on the various victim groups targeted by the Nazi regime and is an important source of knowledge for society today.

Photo credit: Arolsen Archives, Photo: Andreas Greiner-Napp

Witness to the past

The documents bear witness to the past, but they also have an important message for us today. They remind us that democracies need to be protected – by each and every one of us.

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Numerous documents from Displaced Persons (DPs)

The DP documents in the Arolsen Archives represent a unique source collection that clearly illustrates the difficult transitional situation in which millions of people found themselves after the end of the Second World War.

Photo credit: Arolsen Archives, Photo: Cornelis Gollhardt

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