Arolsen Archives
Dear Editor: Here is an important volunteer opportunity. Thursday, Jan. 27, is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Holocaust (1933–1945) was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million European Jews by the Nazi German regime and its allies and collaborators. There were also millions of other victims of the Nazi including people with disabilities, Poles, Romas, Blacks, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals and political opponents.
The Arolsen Archives are an international center on Nazi persecution with the world’s most extensive collection of documents on the victims and survivors. The collection is listed on the UNESCO Memory of the World register. It contains documents on the various victim groups targeted by the Nazi regime of terror and is an important source of knowledge for society today.
Around International Holocaust Remembrance Day the Arolsen Archives has organized a global FLASH project. Volunteer to help them digitize the names on concentration camp documents and thus make names findable in their online archive! On Wednesday, Jan. 26, 20,000 documents of Displaced Persons will be released. Volunteers have 48 hours to enter these records. No fate and no name must be forgotten! Every Name Counts.
I have taken the short tutorial and will be entering documents for this project. Anyone with a computer can help. This would be a great project for middle school and high school students to participate in as well. Even taking the time to enter one record will make a difference.
https://enc.arolsen-archives.org/en/
Thank you.
Tory O’Connell Curran, Sitka
