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The extensive online archive of the Arolsen Archives gives users access to 40 million documents and is being expanded further. Each year, around 700,000 people use this unique resource on Nazi persecution.. The e-guide created by the Arolsen Archives as a digital aid helps users to bet-ter understand the documents.

#everynamecounts invites volunteers to help build the world’s largest digital memorial to the victims and survivors of the Nazi era. This crowdsourcing initiative makes it easy to take a stand and get involved yourself. To join in, all you need is a smartphone or a computer with ac-cess to the internet and a few minutes of spare time. Then you can start digitizing the names and information on the original documents.

In the #LastSeen Image Atlas, you will find all surviving images of deportations from the German Reich between 1938 and 1945 digitally published in a curated and scientifically contextualized format. With its complex filtering structure and the annotation of photographs with historical context, the Image Atlas serves as both a digital edition and an interactive exhibition.

PMJ is a 16-volume series of historical documents in English translation that traces the persecution and murder of Jews in the German Reich and the whole of Nazi-dominated Europe from 1933 to 1945 from the perspective of perpetrators, victims, and third parties. Scholarly introductions to key events and developments, along with explanatory footnotes, biographies, and indices, provide context for the documents.

The IfZ has been providing its open access publications via the Zeitgeschichte Open repository since 2019, which underwent a comprehensive relaunch in December 2023. In line with the Institute’s Open Access Policy, all IfZ publications that conform with the legal requirements are to be added successively to Zeitgeschichte Open. In addition to open-access titles, the repository provides access to digitized and restricted-access publications as well as archival holdings.