Did you know that Footnote.com just added over one million records pertaining to the Holocaust? On September 29, the National Archives and Footnote announced the release of the Internet’s largest interactive Holocaust collection. Included are: Concentration camp registers and documents from Dachau, Mauthausen, Auschwitz, and Flossenburg; the “Ardelia Hall Collection” of records relating to the Nazi looting of Jewish possessions, including looted art; captured German records including deportation and death lists from concentration camps; nearly 600 interactive personal accounts of those who survived or perished in the Holocaust (provided by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum) and Nuremberg War Crimes Trial proceedings. Millions of names and 26,000 photographs can be found in these records. Footnote also carries millions of other historical and genealogical records, including military pension records, naturalization records and FBI case files. Footnote is one of the many databases carried by the Beverly Public Library, and it can be accessed in the library. Try it the next time you are here!
New Holocaust Research Collection Available
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