The Arolsen Archives is the largest archive on victims and survivors of Nazi persecution, sharing knowledge and promoting active remembrance and democracy.
Ancestry’s two new databases are:
Index to Tracing and Documentation Files from Arolsen Archives (Formerly ITS), 1947 (in German)
An index of approximately 1.5 million records that document inquiries to Arolsen about people who had been impacted by the Holocaust. Records, in the language of origin, may include the following information:
Name, including any known aliases
Date of birth
Record number
Database number
Arolsen file number
Arolsen Concentration Camp Lists, 1939-1944 (in German)
This collection contains 8,137,272 records of concentration camp internees who were held captive by the Nazi Regime during World War II. Most records came from Buchenwald, Dachau, Flossenburg, Mauthausen, Mittelbau-Dora, Natzweiler-Struthof, or Neuengamme; but records from other concentration camps are also present. Types of records available include:
Transports lists
Registers
Death certificates
Death reports
Witness records
Prisoner records
This collection is multilingual. Most are in German, but you may also encounter records written in English, French, Czech, or other languages.
Records may include the following information:
Name
Age at registration
Nationality
Occupation
Religion
Date and place of birth
Date of arrival
Name of concentration camp
Prisoner number
Type of prisoner
Role within the camp
Rank and Unit
Date of departure
Date and place of death
Age at death
Names of family members
Linked images of the original are available. ChatGPT and Gemini will provide a transcription and translation, to be treated with caution.
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