You have done an incredible job! A huge thank you for your outstanding work! It was an honour to have experienced this together with you. Best, Kerstin
PS: #everynamecounts is continuing here: https://everynamecounts.arolsen-archives.org/
Research
We are using our collections to create the world's largest Online Archive of documents on the victims and survivors of National Socialism – which will be a digital memorial to the people who were persecuted.
This is a huge task, so we need your help. Our archive contains around 30 million documents with references to the fates of 17.5 million people.
Many millions of names can already be easily searched, but not nearly all of them. This is why we launched the # everynamecounts crowdsourcing project. You can help us transcribe information from our historical documents, such as names and birth dates.
In 2020 our Online Archive received the European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award 2020, Europe’s highest honor in the field of preserving cultural heritage.
Our goal
The only relevant archives are accessible archives. This is why we are working to make our historical collection of documents on concentration camp prisoners, forced laborers under Hitler’s regime and Displaced Persons available online. Our goal is to fully index all of the most important data by 2025.
You can learn more about the goals and progress of # everynamecounts in this interview on our website.
About the Arolsen Archives
The Arolsen Archives are an international center on Nazi persecution with the world’s most extensive collection of documents on the victims and survivors of National Socialism. 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.
This video tells you more about our archive and our work: