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From press releases to information about upcoming events or updates about the current activities of the Arolsen Archives – whether you are a journalist or simply interested in our work, our news section will keep you updated.
News
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Help for Olga Benario Prestes from Mexico
“Unimaginable not to see you again, my little girl,” Olga Benario Prestes wrote to her daughter Anita in 1942. The …
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From the Guillotine to the Dissection Table
Not only did the Nazi judicial system withhold the farewell letters of many execution victims, it also denied families the …
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Making memories visible: Greek victims of Nazi persecution
In June 2024, a special ceremony took place as part of the #StolenMemory initiative: a pocket watch belonging to a …
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Anxiously waiting for news of Käthe Leichter in Paris
“If only I knew how things stand with you!” wrote Otto Leichter in his diary, which he composed as a …
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Who were the victims?
Stadelheim Prison was a “central execution site” under the National Socialists. A total of 1,188 people were executed there in …
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Dedicated to the dead of Dachau: The secret diaries of Edgar Kupfer
Eighty-five years ago today, on 11 November 1940, the Gestapo took Edgar Kupfer to Dachau concentration camp. Over the next …
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The powerlessness of the ICRC during the Nazi period
During the Second World War, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) sent 179 delegates to visit 12,750 prisoner-of-war …
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(No) post for Alice Lesser?
“Alive! Full of wonder! Intense! Back from hell, from the depths of dehumanization – but above it all stretched a …
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Messages to the mother in KZ Ravensbrück
“The child is very worried about her parents,” wrote the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to the German …
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History meets technology: Remembrance on the internet
Seventeen million names, about 40 million documents, and nearly 700,000 searches per year: The Arolsen Archives’ online archive has helped …
Scroll stories
Our scroll stories offer you deeper insights into biographies and historical events – narrated in a multimedia format. Biographical documents and historical documents from the Arolsen Archives are often the starting point. It is worth checking back regularly, because the number of scroll stories is growing all the time.
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Concentration camp prisoner libraries
Despite the inhumane conditions in the Nazi concentration camps, some camps had what were known as prisoner libraries. The camp …
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Anna’s search for the truth
The hidden picture Anna Salton Eisen was first introduced to the Holocaust when she was a young child and found …
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Bad Arolsen: Tracing the history of the Nazi era
A small town called Bad Arolsen in the north of Hesse, Germany, has been home to the Arolsen Archives since …
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Annual Report 2023
We are currently witnessing major changes accompanied by significant challenges. The conflict in Gaza and the war in Ukraine mark …
