The Arolsen Archives are an international center on Nazi persecution with around 30 million documents relating to approximately 17.5 million victims and survivors of National Socialism. Many of these documents are accessible in digital format online via the searchable database, the Online Archive of the Arolsen Archives. The archive mainly hold documents on detainees in camps, ghettos and Gestapo prisons, forced laborers, and people supported by Allied aid organizations after 1945 (Displaced Persons), as well as postwar emigrants. Records on people and on topics are distinct in search results and include digitized documents as well as data.
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The Arolsen Archives are an international center on Nazi persecution with around 30 million documents relating to approximately 17.5 million victims and survivors of National Socialism. Many of these documents are accessible in digital format online via the searchable database, the Online Archive of the Arolsen Archives. The archive mainly hold documents on detainees in camps, ghettos and Gestapo prisons, forced laborers, and people supported by Allied aid organizations after 1945 (Displaced Persons), as well as postwar emigrants. Records on people and on topics are distinct in search results and include digitized documents as well as data.
(Description adapted from information on project website)