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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 648

Holocaust archives

An employee shows photos, former belongings of victims and survivors of Nazi regime, in a storage house at the Arolsen Archives in Bad Arolsen, Germany on March 6, 2025. (Ina Fassbender/AFP)
April 17, 2025, 11:29 am
Aided by German archive, descendants of victims of the Nazis retrace family history
Located in small German town, the Arolsen Archives returns Nazi-looted possessions to victims’ relatives, helps estranged family members find each other through WWII-era documents
By Céline LE PRIOUX
Established in 1933 by Alfred Wiener, a German Jew decorated with the Iron Cross in World War I, the Wiener Library in London is the world's oldest Holocaust museum. (Courtesy)
January 27, 2025, 4:17 pm
UK’s Wiener Holocaust Library releases its extensive archive online for first time
Publication of 150,000 items, including dissident German pamphlets, Nuremberg trial documents and photos of Auschwitz, coincides with 80th anniversary of death camp’s liberation
By AFP
Yellow badges and a piece of luggage are displayed at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, July 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
July 8, 2024, 6:26 pm
Yad Vashem launches new conservation facility to restore and preserve artifacts
Before vast new multistory building opened, says Museum chairman Dani Dayan, ‘it was very difficult to exhibit our treasures that were kept in our vaults. They were kind of secret’
By SHLOMO MOR and Maya Alleruzzo
A man pushes an elderly woman in a wheelchair as she carries a suitcase on her legs. In the back can be seen a truck from the shipping company sent to pick up the luggage. The wall projection on his right shields the photographer from being seen. Breslau, Silesia, November 21, 1941. (Courtesy of the Landesverband Sachsen der Jüdischen Gemeinden in Dresden)
May 4, 2024, 5:21 am
A Jewish photographer’s rare images of an early Holocaust transport are now online
13 recently published pictures covertly taken in Breslau, Silesia, in November 1941 show one of Germany’s first deportations of Jews through the lens of the victims and not the Nazis
By Robert Philpot
Staff member Mrs. Walter at the Wiener Holocaust Library in 1952. (Wiener Holocaust Library)
February 13, 2024, 8:35 am
A Holocaust museum that predates WWII, London’s Wiener Library turns 90 this month
Founded in 1934 by Alfred Wiener, the museum exposed Nazis, helped the Allies battle them, and led to their conviction. Now it’s one of the world’s preeminent research institutions
By Robert Philpot
A Holocaust survivor's photo and quote projected on the Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, January 27, 2024. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for LIVE2TELL By Gillian Laub/AFP)
January 28, 2024, 1:08 pm
Images of survivors projected on NYC landmarks to launch new Holocaust archive
Digital project produced by actress Amy Schumer and digital storyteller Kira Pollack documents remaining survivors’ stories with photography, video, and first-person interviews
By julia GERGELY
Nazis line up Jewish deportees in front of the German city of Halberstadt’s famous 13th-century Gothic cathedral, in an image presented by Lothar Lou Beverstein to the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive.
August 31, 2022, 8:41 pm
How Holocaust researchers rely on unknown photos from public to recover lost stories
More visual evidence of Nazi deportation is emerging in attics and archives in various countries, providing a powerful tool against Holocaust denial
By Wolf Gruner
Illustrative: Jews from Hungary arriving at Auschwitz in May of 1944, part of 'The Auschwitz Album' series of photographs. Most of these Jews were murdered later that day. (public domain)
June 26, 2022, 3:38 pm
Google engineer identifies anonymous faces in WWII photos with AI facial recognition
While visiting the POLIN museum in 2016, Daniel Patt realized he could be walking by his own relatives without knowing it, so he designed a platform ‘From Numbers to Names’
By Yaakov Schwartz
This photo taken in the 1950s provided by Italian news agency Ansa on February 23, 2020, shows Pope Pius XII in the Vatican. (STRINGER/ANSA/AFP)
June 24, 2022, 12:00 am
Vatican publishes thousands of Holocaust-era files, including pleas to pope
Documentation put online from newly opened archives includes requests to Pope Pius XII to intervene against Nazi deportations, help liberate people held in concentration camps
By Nicole Winfield
Warsaw's northern district during World War II, when German Nazis created a ghetto for 400,000 Polish Jews (public domain)
January 25, 2022, 11:14 am
‘Yizker bikher’ books commemorate Holocaust, but also celebrate Jewish lives lost
Memorial tomes recorded East European Jewry before WWII, with rich descriptions of everyday life
By Jennifer Rich
Wiener Holocaust Library director Toby Simpson shows a reporter documents in the central London institution. (Jacob Judah/ JTA)
January 15, 2022, 3:50 pm
In London, the world’s oldest Holocaust archive is still collecting material
Sensing impending disaster, the Wiener Library’s founder gathered evidence of German antisemitism from the 1920s, making an argument against the Nazis before Hitler came to power
By Jacob Judah
In this May 8, 2008 file photo Gary Mokotoff, a Jewish genealogist from New Jersey, takes a look at name registers at the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, central Germany. Germany’s International Center on Nazi Persecution has uploaded some 850,000 documents with information on ten million people collected after the end of World War II in the American occupied zone of Germany. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
March 24, 2021, 10:47 am
Archives uncover forgotten names of Auschwitz inmates
Researchers find previously unknown identities of an estimated 4,000 prisoners and information about 26,000 others
By Bernard OSSER
After the war Herman Likwornik returned to his hometown, which had become part of the USSR and was now known as Kalush. Photo taken in 1947. (Courtesy Victor Likwornik)
December 29, 2020, 3:52 am
Double tragedy: Survivor’s nephew uncovers fate of Polish Jews who fled to USSR
‘Deported. Exiled. Saved.’ uncovers dramatic new information with implications for descendants of the largest Polish survivor group — including the family of this writer
By Bernard Dichek
Jewish-Lithuanian partisan group The Avengers on their return to Vilna at the time of the Red Army's liberation of the city, July 1944. (Wiener Holocaust Library Collections)
December 7, 2020, 1:43 pm
Modern Maccabees: UK exhibit highlights Jews’ overlooked resistance to the Nazis
Display at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library from December 8 reveals often underestimate rescue efforts and armed uprisings, as Jews fought back against their persecutors
By Robert Philpot
A student engages with 'Every Name Counts' at the Elisabeth-Knipping-Schule in Kassel, Germany. (Johanna Gross)
July 22, 2020, 3:34 am
You can help Nazi victims’ families learn their fates in online archive project
Thousands answer crowdsourcing call to assist Germany’s Arolsen Archives in making 26 million newly digitized historical documents searchable by anyone online
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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