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Arolsen Archives appeal: help build a digital monument


The Arolsen Archives are appealing for people to take part in the online project “Every Name Counts”.

The Arolsen Archives are building the world’s largest online archive with information on the victims of Nazism. The crowdsourcing project “Every Name Counts” calls for volunteers to enter names found on documents into the online archive to ensure that they will never be forgotten.

Bad Arolsen - The COVID-19 pandemic makes it impossible for people to come together as they have done in the past to take part in joint acts of remembrance: It has become necessary to cancel many memorial ceremonies involving the laying of wreaths and visits to memorial sites that were planned long in advance to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps and the end of the Second World War. This is why the Arolsen Archives have chosen this time to offer a new form of remembrance which is open to all.

The aim of “Every Name Counts” is to motivate as many people as possible to help digitize documents from concentration camps like Buchenwald or Dachau. This is a simple and straightforward process that takes about 30 minutes per document and has a real impact.

Anyone can take part in this unique digital remembrance project and show their solidarity with the victims and survivors of the crimes that were committed by the National Socialists!

The Arolsen Archives are an international center on Nazi persecution with the world's most comprehensive (online) archive on the victims and survivors of National Socialism. Their collections contain references to about 17.5 million people from various victim groups targeted by the Nazi regime.

For more information about the archive and this project, as well as information on how to take part, go to:

https://arolsen-archives.org/en/learn-participate/interactive-archive/everynamecounts/ 

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