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We are the international center on Nazi persecution with the world’s most comprehensive archive on the victims and survivors. #everynamecounts

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80 years ago today, the first verdicts were delivered in the Nuremberg trials. Among the twelve subsequent trials was the Doctors’ Trial. One of the witnesses was Dr František Bláha who, as a prisoner, was compelled to carry out post-mortem examinations on corpses in Dachau concentration camp.

Illustration featuring a document from the Dachau concentration camp in the center. In it, František Bláha asks for warmer clothing, as he works in cold rooms that are like “morgues.” The document was filled out in late October 1942.
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The mass shootings in the Babyn Yar ravine began 85 years ago. Backed by the Wehrmacht, members of the SS and the police murdered over 33,000 Jews within two days. The Nazis killed about 100,000 people there in total. The victims also included Sinti and Roma, Soviet POW, and alleged partisans. #otd

Historical photo of the Babi Yar ravine. In the background, many people are standing on the rocky ground of the ravine. In the foreground, a soldier in uniform stands next to two women. One of them is not wearing shoes.
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One wedding dress – 18 weddings! Lili and Ludwig got married in Celle, Germany, in 1946. Afterwards, Lili lent her dress to more than 17 other brides at the Bergen-Belsen DP camp. Do you have information about any of the women who wore the dress? Let us know! 📷United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

A graphic featuring a photo in the center. It shows a long, white wedding dress against a gray background. The dress has wide sleeves and a high collar. In the lower left corner is the name “Lili Frydman” in white lettering on a blue background; in the lower right corner is the Arolsen Archives logo.
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Mala Tribich survived the Holocaust as a child. Two years after the war ended, she was reunited with her brother Ben in Great Britain. They were the only members of their family to survive. Mala has been active as a witness to the Holocaust since the 1980s. We wish her a very happy 96th birthday!

Graphic showing a DP registration card. It contains information about Mala Tribich, who was still known as Helfgott at the time. Listed are her date of birth, her parents’ names, and a reference to her brother, Ben. In the lower left corner, her name is written in white letters on a blue box.
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„Summer Greetings from the Right!”: This week, unknown persons left a sticker featuring a swastika on the Arolsen Archives logo on the office building. We have reported an offence and notified RIAS (German abbreviation for Office on Research and Information on Antisemitism).

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We are deeply saddened by the death of Yehuda Aharon Vidovsky. The oldest Holocaust survivor living in Israel passed away last Sunday aged 107. Born in Turek in Poland in 1919, Yehuda Aharon Vidovsky survived Łódź & Auschwitz. The National Socialists murdered his parents and almost all his siblings.

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Zu ihrem heutigen 96. Geburtstag gratulieren wir Liliana Segre. Mit 13 deportieren die Nazis sie in das KZ Auschwitz. Als einzige ihrer Familie kehrt sie 1945 in ihre Heimat Mailand zurück. Heute ist sie Zeitzeugin und italienische Senatorin auf Lebenszeit.

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