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New Holocaust Records Online

By , About.com GuideSeptember 29, 2009

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For the first time ever, over one million Holocaust-related records - including millions of names and 26,000 photos from the National Archives - are available online. Footnote.com, in conjunction with the National Archives and Records Administration, has launched a new online digital Holocaust Collection, including:

  • Concentration camp registers and documents from Dachau, Mauthausen, Auschwitz, and Flossenburg.
  • The "Ardelia Hall Collection" of records relating to the Nazi looting of Jewish possessions, including looted art.
  • Captured German records including deportation and death lists from concentration camps.
  • Nuremberg War Crimes Trial proceedings.
  • The new Holocaust Collection at Footnote will be available free for everyone through the month of October. The remaining records at Footnote.com are available through a paid subscription. In addition to the Holocaust records, the Holocaust Collection also includes nearly 600 interactive personal accounts of those who survived or perished in the Holocaust provided by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The project incorporates social networking tools that enable visitors to search for names and add photos, comments and stories, share their insights, and create pages to highlight their discoveries. There will be no charge to access and contribute to these personal pages. Since the collection just launched today, you can probably expect slowness and other oddities - so plan on patience!

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    September 30, 2009 at 10:05 am
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    The article of Oral History was good all except how do you reference these in your written genealogy.
    I always use the persons name and approximately age and that persons experience with the people listed in the oral genealogy.
    I am looking for an easy way to do this but yet it is legit and can be used by others. Any suggestions would be very helpful
    Neb

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