Holocaust records help reconstruct lives
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The path to uncovering the life and death of Cornelis Marinus Brouwenstijn begins with a plain manila envelope containing a purse, an ID booklet, a cracked leather wallet, a slew of family snapshots, and a ...Comment
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JERUSALEM -- Israel's Holocaust museum launched a website yesterday giving Internet users access to biographical information on 3 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, the most comprehensive database of its kind. The Yad Vashem museum's site, which will be formally unveiled today, digitizes the center's 50 years of work compiling information on Holocaust victims. The list, the ...
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For more than half a century, historian Raul Hilberg has studied the Holocaust, arguably the most savage episode in human history. He has tried to distance his personal life from his work but says on occasion, he has been overtaken by the pathos of his subject.
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GVOZDAVKA-1, Ukraine -- As children watched in the hot sunshine, a dozen rabbis scoured a Ukrainian village meadow for bones -- the fragmented remains of Jews systematically killed here during the Holocaust.
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The Swedish government has launched an online database with more than 1,000 documents on the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg, a diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from Nazi death camps.
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Greek Jews are among those communities that suffered the greatest losses in the Holocaust.
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The passport used by  Holocaust organiser Adolf Eichmann to enter Argentina is unearthed in court records.
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For more than half a century,  historian Raul Hilberg has studied the Holocaust, arguably the  most savage episode in human history. He has tried to distance  his personal life from his work but says on occasion, he has  been overtaken by the pathos of his subject.
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Concentration camp and incarceration records would be the first Nazi documents released under a just-completed plan to make millions of files stored in Germany accessible to Holocaust researchers, the archive director said Thursday.
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The diary of a 14-year-old Jewish girl, dubbed the "Polish Anne Frank," was unveiled Monday by Israel's Holocaust museum more than 60 years after the teenager vividly described the world crumbling around her as she came of age in a Jewish ghetto.
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BERLIN (Deutsche Welle) - The last remaining hurdle to the opening up a massive Holocaust archive held in Germany has been cleared after Greece voted to change an international treaty. The Greek parliament voted unanimously to make the information contained in the Bad Arolsen archive public. Greece is the last of the archive's 11 governing countries to approve amending the treaty governing the Nazi-era documents. France voted in favor of the changes last week, and the U.S., Israel, Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Germany and Italy agreed to the amendments earlier this year.  Much of the digital information kept in the archive has already been transferred to national Holocaust repositories in countries such as the U.S. and Israel, but previously this information was only available to Holocaust survivors and their families. The digital transfers should be completed by the end of 2007, officials said. Eventually, the information will also be made available to the public via the Internet. The archives, which is overseen by the International Tracing Service (ITS) - an arm of the Red Cross - consist of up to 100 million digital pages of information. This is divided into separate collections covering detention records, forced and slave labor, and displaced persons as well as an index containing around 17 million names.
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Friday's papers provide vivid coverage of yesterday's ceremonies at the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.
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Official records of some of Britain's most famous immigrants are to made available online.
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JERUSALEM -- The diary of a 14-year-old Jewish girl, dubbed the "Polish Anne Frank," was unveiled yesterday by Israel's Holocaust museum more than 60 years after the teenager vividly described the world crumbling around her as she came of age in a Jewish ghetto.
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The previously unknown diary of 18-year-old Helga Deen - who was murdered along with her family by the Nazis at the Sobibor death camp in 1943 - has been loaned to the Tilburg Regional Archive in the Netherlands.
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Spurred by technological strides like DNA matching, some families hope to find the remains of World War II soldiers.
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Two sisters who survived the Holocaust and moved separately to Israel were reunited after 61 years with the help of a high-tech database, a spokeswoman from the Israel Holocaust memorial said Sunday.