I was screaming and crying … I didn’t want to go,” remembers Holocaust survivor Josie Traum about the day strangers came to ...

With false French papers, Rose-Helene Spreiregen, age 12, and her grandmother fled German-occupied Paris on an overnight train. “Make believe you are sleeping. I will take care of it,” Rose-Helene ...

This 1,100-square-foot traveling exhibition is based on the exhibition that opened in 2018 at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. The Americans and the Holocaust traveling ...

Between 1939 and 1945, Nazi society removed people from the Reich they considered unworthy of being citizens because they did not fit into their vision of the racial national community. They forcibly ...

My best remembered early days were unfortunately my years in Nazi Germany. When I was born, some years before Hitler came to power, my family was quite comfortable. They had a successful business, a ...

Holocaust survivor Joël Nommick was born into danger in December 1942 in the midst of World War II. Just months earlier, Joël’s father had been arrested and taken away from the family. Authorities ...

After I survived the Holocaust in Poland, my mother, father, sister, and I moved to England, where we were generously accepted as we tried to move past the terrible years of World War II. We were ...

Non, rien de rien, Non, je ne regrette rien. (No, nothing at all, No, I do not regret anything.) —Édith Piaf There have been many moments in my adult life when I have had to make a decision. Sometimes ...

The list cataloging and name indexing of this collection have been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

The Arolsen Archives, formerly International Tracing Service (ITS), are an international center on Nazi persecution with the world’s most comprehensive archive on the victims and survivors of National ...