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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An Israeli organization charged with locating the property of victims of the Holocaust has put its findings on the Internet.
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Anne Frank's cousin on Monday donated thousands of letters, photographs and documents that archivists say will reveal details about the background of the teenage diarist who became a symbol of the Holocaust.
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It started as a clear-out job before a house sale and led to the discovery of a window into the Holocaust.
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Newly discovered snapshots donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum provide a stunning counterpoint to what up until now has been the only major source of preliberation Auschwitz photos.
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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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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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The newly discovered diary of an 18-year-old Jewish girl has offered a haunting insight into life inside a holocaust-era Dutch prison camp in a find archivists are comparing to the Anne Frank diaries.
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A Holocaust-era diary and love letters written by a Jewish teen for her Dutch boyfriend while she was imprisoned in an internment camp in 1943 has been donated to a Dutch archives.
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Amateur historians and academics can take advantage of a wealth of archived data on the web.
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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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First you see the faces of Holocaust survivors in stark photographs. They set the stage for the horrors to come, displayed in blunt but richly textured wall hangings at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage.
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On the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a survivor recalls her experiences at the camp.
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The Netherlands said Thursday it has ratified an accord to open to a long-secret archive of Nazi death camp records in Germany, another step toward giving scholars access to a vast collection of historically invaluable Holocaust documents.
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Amsterdam, Netherlands - A Holocaust-era diary and love letters written by a Jewish teen for her Dutch boyfriend while she was imprisoned in an internment camp in 1943 have been donated to a Dutch archives.
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Holocaust survivors and relatives of  those who perished have a chance to recover money long held by  Swiss banks with the release on Thursday of a new list of 3,100  names of account owners who may have been Nazi victims.
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An Israel museum posts the details of more than three million Holocaust victims on its website.