Arolsen Archives - International Center on Nazi Persecution

Arolsen Archives
The main building of the International Tracing Service
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51°22′42″N 9°01′10″E / 51.37821746260278°N 9.019545509244857°E / 51.37821746260278; 9.019545509244857
LocationBad Arolsen, Germany
AffiliationMemory of the World
Websitehttps://arolsen-archives.org/

The Arolsen Archives – International Center on Nazi Persecution formerly the International Tracing Service (ITS), in German Internationaler Suchdienst, in French Service International de Recherches in Bad Arolsen, Germany, is an internationally governed centre for documentation, information and research on Nazi persecution, forced labour and the Holocaust in Nazi Germany and its occupied regions. The archive contains about 30 million documents from concentration camps, details of forced labour, and files on displaced persons.[1][2][3] ITS preserves the original documents and clarifies the fate of those persecuted by the Nazis. The archives have been accessible to researchers since 2007. In May 2019 the Center uploaded around 13 million documents and made it available online to the public.[1] The archives are currently being digitised and transcribed through the crowdsourcing platform Zooniverse. As of September 2022, approximately 46% of the archives have been transcribed.[4]

  1. ^ a b "Arolsen Archives Online". European Heritage Awards. May 7, 2020. Archived from the original on May 15, 2020. Retrieved October 1, 2022.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference victims was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference memory was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Every Name Counts". Zooniverse. Retrieved October 1, 2022.