Trading card: Holocaust

Freder Jewish home in Larvik

The National Heritage Board protects the house and apple orchard of the Sachnowitz family, who were deported and killed in the persecution of Norwegian Jews in 1942-43. Of the nine family members...

The HL Center's archive after Robert Savosnick is included in Norway's document heritage

On December 4, six new additions were added to Norway's documentary heritage, the Norwegian part of UNESCO's Memory of the World register: One of them is the archive of...

Identifies victims from German concentration camps

Efforts are now underway to identify everyone who was sent to the horrific Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The concentration camp was located in Oświecim in Poland, and 9 of...

Ancestry.com with lists of Holocaust survivors and victims

Earlier this year, Slekt1 reported that the Arolsen Archive had been digitized. Now it is clear that the archive has partnered with Ancestry.com so that the lists...

Prisoner cards and death notices from German concentration camps digitized

It is estimated that between 15 and 20 million people were in German captivity during the Second World War. Around 9,000 of these were...