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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PMJ is a 16-volume series of historical documents in English translation that traces the persecution and murder of Jews in the German Reich and the whole of Nazi-dominated Europe from 1933 to 1945 from the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.
Interviews with 24 survivors of the Buna/Monowitz concentration camp are part of the Wollheim Memorial. While the website of the Wollheim Memorial is being updated, the Fritz Bauer Institute is making them available.
In collaboration with the Hessian State Archives in Wiesbaden, the Fritz Bauer Institute is making the audio recording of the first Frankfurt Auschwitz trial available to the public.
The exhibition, developed in 2014 by the Fritz Bauer Institute and the Jewish Museum Frankfurt, was digitized in 2023. Versions in English and in simple language are also available.
To help schools address the Holocaust in the classroom, the Fritz Bauer Institute develops teaching modules on various topics that teachers can use free of charge.
The Fritz Bauer Institute regularly hosts public lectures, panel discussions, and book presentations. Selected events are available as video recordings.
Around 450 newspapers were published in exile between 1933 and 1945. With the “Digital Exile Press” project, the German Exile Archive seeks to provide access to as representative an overview as possible of the exile press and particularly difficult-to-access periodicals.
The Jewish periodicals published in Nazi Germany are a historical source of great importance for researching the lives and suffering of the Jewish community under the Nazi dictatorship.
Here you will find an overview of the German Exile Archive’s collection and useful tips for researching and using the holdings. In German with English subtitles.
Through the online resource of the Exile Archive 1933–1945, you can ask Holocaust survivors Kurt Salomon Maier and Inge Auerbacher about their experiences. This interactive resource is based on two comprehensive interviews, each containing over 900 responses.