Our scroll stories bring personal histories to life: using text and images, they tell stories of persecution and death, but also of flight, survival, and new beginnings. Every day, we gain new insights into biographies and individual life stories thanks to the many inquiries submitted to our archives. We would like to share at least some of them with you.
About victims of Nazi persecution and historical events
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Forced to emigrate
Uncovering the fates of victims of Nazi persecution is often like assembling a puzzle. As pieces of information come to …
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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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Investigating a Tragedy
In the last days of the Second World War, one of the worst shipping disasters ever to occur took place …
Stories related to the Arolsen Archives
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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 …
