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UK Library Releases Massive Holocaust Archive Online


(AFP) One of the world's largest Holocaust archives was published online for the first time Monday, coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The Wiener Holocaust Library's new online portal includes more than 150,000 documents - such as photos, transcripts and testimonies - detailing Nazi Germany's genocide of six million European Jews. The items include photographs of Auschwitz, the notorious Nazi death camp in Poland where more than one million Jews died between 1940 and 1945. Documents from the Nuremberg war crimes trials of Nazi leaders and materials about fascist and anti-fascist groups in the United Kingdom before and after World War II feature in the collection as well. The Wiener Holocaust Library was founded in 1933 by Alfred Wiener, who gathered evidence of the persecution of Jews in Germany after fleeing the country.
2025-01-30 00:00:00
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