Records reveal Jewish persecution
The remains of a card index featuring details of Jewish Holocaust victims has been published online for the first time.
The International Tracing Service (ITS) has digitised 32,264 index cards compiled by the Reich Association of Jews in Germany, listing people forced to register with the Nazi regime following the passing of the Nuremberg Race Laws.
Available to search at digital collections.its-arolsen.org, the digital scans contain numerous biographical details, including each person’s date of birth, profession and address.
As the records were originally used by the Gestapo to plan the mass deportation of Jews in 1941, it therefore offers a harrowing insight into the lives of men, women and children who perished during the Holocaust.
The ITS has also published documents relating to Nazi Germany’s notorious death marches, revealing the locations in which victims were buried.
“We chose [to digitise] two sets of documents that, while small, are of especial interest to the public,” said ITS director Floriane Hohenberg.
“More extensive holdings will follow, with which we aim to make documents on deportations, the Holocaust and forced labour available to people all over the world.”