{"id":1882,"date":"2025-04-14T01:55:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T17:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/84news.top\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2025-04-14T01:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T17:55:16","slug":"german-archive-where-victims-of-the-nazis-come-back-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/german-archive-where-victims-of-the-nazis-come-back-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"German archive where victims of the Nazis come back to life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Although 90 percent of the material held by the Arolsen Archive has now been digitised, the complex still stores some 30 million original documents on almost 17.5 million people.<\/p>\n

There are also thousands of items such as watches, rings and wallets collected from the old Nazi camps.<\/p>\n

The archive was originally set up by the Allies in early 1946 as the International Tracing Service to help people find relatives who had disappeared during the war.<\/p>\n

It mostly dealt with Jews but also Roma, homosexuals, political dissidents and “racially pure” children kidnapped by the Nazis as part of a programme to address the falling birth rate.<\/p>\n

Bad Arolsen was chosen because it had escaped Allied bombing and had a working telephone network, and because of its location at the centre of Germany’s four occupation zones (French, American, British and Soviet).<\/p>\n

At first the service was run by a curious mix of members of the Allied forces, Holocaust survivors from all over Europe and Germans — including former members of the Nazi party.<\/p>\n

But from the 1950s onwards, as many of the survivors left the country, German staff numbers increased.<\/p>\n

Today, the archive has around 200 employees, assisted by some 50 volunteers around the world.<\/p>\n

And it is still handling around 20,000 enquiries per year, according to Azoulay, often from children or grandchildren of victims or survivors who want to know what happened to them.<\/p>\n

Like Abraham Ben, born to Polish-Jewish parents in a displaced persons camp in Bamberg, southern Germany, in May 1947.<\/p>\n

No grandparents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bad Arolsen (Germany) (AFP) \u2013 <\/span> If it wasn’t for the Arolsen Archives, half-sisters Sula Miller and Helen Schaller would never have met. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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