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The Nazi era as a test of courage: strange fascination and high receptiveness of Gen Z (1)
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The Nazi era as a test of courage: strange fascination and high receptiveness of Gen Z (2)
Chart “High interest of the GenZ in National Socialism”
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The Nazi era as a test of courage: strange fascination and high receptiveness of Gen Z (3)
Chart “The most important problems of GenZ”
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Floriane Azoulay
Floriane Azoulay has been director of the Arolsen Archives since January 2016.
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#everynamecounts challenge
Social media texts and pictures in English and German for the #everynamecounts challenge (January 26 – January 28, 2022).
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#everynamecounts (Media installation at the French Embassy in Berlin)
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documentED: Learning more from visits to former concentration camps (1)
documentED offers study packs to prepare for and follow up on trips to memorial sites at 13 former German concentration camps in Europe.
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documentED: Learning more from visits to former concentration camps (2)
Teachers are given materials that appeal to young people and allow them to prepare students for trips quickly and in a way that leaves a lasting impression.
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documentED: Learning more from visits to former concentration camps (3)
The toolkits use personal fates to show structural Nazi persecution and shed light on the various groups of victims.
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Appeal for people to take part in #everynamecounts
Help Build a Digital Monument: The crowdsourcing project #everynamecounts calls for volunteers to enter names found on documents into the online archive to ensure that they will never be forgotten.
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Media installation #everynamecounts
In January 2021, the façade of the French Embassy in Berlin will become a “screen.” The media installation projected onto it is dedicated to the victims of National Socialism and appeals for support in the #everynamecounts crowdsourcing initiative.
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Norway: Personal effects of Tore Five
The journalist Gøril Grov Sørdal found the families of more than 20 former concentration camp prisoners from Norway to return the personal effects of their relatives to them.
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Norway: Personal effects of Thorvald Michelsen
The journalist Gøril Grov Sørdal found the families of more than 20 former concentration camp prisoners from Norway to return the personal effects of their relatives to them.
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Searching and Found: Launch of #StolenMemory traveling exhibition
The #StolenMemory traveling exhibition will visit 2020 / 2021 at least 20 different German towns and villages which have less than 20,000 inhabitants.
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Searching and Found: Launch of #StolenMemory traveling exhibition
The #StolenMemory traveling exhibition will visit 2020 / 2021 at least 20 different German towns and villages which have less than 20,000 inhabitants.
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Appeal for people to take part in the online project “Every Name Counts”
Help Build a Digital Monument: Four steps and five minutes are all it takes before volunteers can start entering names in the database.
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26 million documents about victims of Nazi persecution online
Registration card of a young forced laborer from Russia who was made to do agricultural work.
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26 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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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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New web portal visualizes fates of Displaced Persons
For the first time, the interactive web portal “Transnational Remembrance of Nazi Forced Labor and Migration” displays movements of selected “Displaced Persons” (DPs) on a world map and tells the stories behind their persecution and migration.
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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 Online Tool
New Information on the Survivors of Nazi Persecution: The second part of the e-Guide explains documents like this so-called DP 2 card, which was used by the Allies to register displaced persons.
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Ten million names published: Allied documentation
Forced laborers from France after the Allied liberation.
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Ten million names published: Allied documentation
A Frenchman’s gravesite in the graveyard of a Bavarian village: the Allies requested such information from German municipalities in order to find missing persons and document Nazi atrocities.
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Passenger lists
Excerpt from the passenger list of the „General Greenly” including the name of Thomas Buergenthal.
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Passenger lists
Displaced Persons departing Germany for the United States enter the gates of a former navy yard that was use as a staging area for emigrants leaving Europe through the port of Bremerhaven.
Photo credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Aviva Kempner
Passenger lists
Arrival of the “SS Ernie Pyle” with Jewish emigrants from Europe at the port of New York on January 2, 1947.
Photo credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Sally Goldblum Wasserman
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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The Arolsen Archives Permanent Exhibition
The archive’s enormous dimensions are illustrated by three tall paper towers. Their heights are shown in relation to well-known buildings and the highest mountains in Germany and Europe.
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The Arolsen Archives Permanent Exhibition
Animated films explain the work of the institution to visitors, for instance the search for a Soviet forced laborer.
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The Arolsen Archives Online Archive
More than 13 million documents on the victims of Nazi persecution: the new online archive of the Arolsen Archives
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Prisoner card from the Buchenwald concentration camp
One of many millions of documents from the Arolsen Archives which are now available online
Photo credit: Arolsen Archives, Foto: Andreas Greiner-Napp
More Than Two Million Documents from the Arolsen Archives Online
Now online: More Than Two Million Documents from the Arolsen Archives Online
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The e-Guide – A New Tool for Understanding Nazi Documents
Now online: the new e-Guide, which provides easy-to-understand explanations of concentration camp documents
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Now online – post-war files on victims of Nazi persecution
File of the International Refugee Organization of Bela and Kasiel Segall, 3.2.1.1/ 79767780/ Arolsen Archives
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Now online – post-war files on victims of Nazi persecution
The files of the International Refugee Organization fill many shelves in the ITS archive. Now almost one million documents from German DP camps can be found online
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The director of the Arolsen Archives: Floriane Azoulay
Floriane Azoulay has been director of the Arolsen Archives since January 2016.
Photo credit: Arolsen Archives, Foto: Cornelis Gollhardt
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, Foto: Cornelis Gollhardt
A Look into the Central Name Index
The Central Name Index is the key to the archives of the International Tracing Service (ITS) and has been the most relevant working tool for the search for traces over many decades
Photo credit: Arolsen Archives, Foto: Cornelis Gollhardt
Press photo: Floriane Azoulay
Floriane Azoulay has been director of the Arolsen Archives since January 2016.
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Press photo: Graphic “High interest of the GenZ in National Socialism”.
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