An envelope in a vast archive starts the paper trail of a lost life
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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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The lives of thousands of Holocaust victims are coming to light in a new database that allows anyone with an Internet connection to research the fate of family members and friends sent to Nazi death camps.
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An online service to help people find British relatives who were born or died abroad launches on Monday.
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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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Documents dating from the Civil War and others to and from Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt are among hundreds of stolen documents sold online that eBay is agreeing to buy back and return to New York's archives, a state official said Saturday.
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Â· Archives cover worst excesses of Soviet eraÂ· Disappointment that only relatives will get access
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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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The US postal service hunts 58,000 postal ballot papers that have gone missing in the key marginal state of Florida.
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Relatives of one of the most contentious Jewish figures from the Holocaust era are hoping that archives they turned over will clear the name of the man both praised and vilified for bargaining with the Nazis for the lives of Jews.
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Reader Abhinay Tibdewal sends us a photograph.
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Area being scoured for missing adventurer is expanded to 10,000 square miles.
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Thousands follow a long-dead soldier's fate as a descendant posts a series of real letters home.
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Long-hidden items and documents relating to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy are being revealed for the first time in decades.
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Some 350 boxes stuffed with receipts, photographs, letters and other records chronicling the history of the Leo Castelli Gallery are being given to the Smithsonian Institutionâs Archives of American Art in Washington.
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Recovering 736 missing digital images can be an arduous (and expensive) task.
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A collection of letters written by popes and kings some 700 years ago that was found among the possessions of a deceased U.S. World War II veteran was turned over Monday to Polish national archives officials.
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A state government intern in Ohio last week lost a backup device that contained personal data on more than 64,000 state workers and tens of thousands of other people.