Cue cards: World War II

Increased base of potential soldiers from World War II by 7 million...

This spring, FamilySearch added a new searchable database of American draft cards from World War II. The cards were sent out in 1942, not long after the...

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...

Creates digital register of Norwegians in captivity during World War II

By putting NOK 1.7 million on the table, the governing parties now want to establish a digital register of all Norwegians who were imprisoned during the...

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...