MASSIVE HOLOCAUST ARCHIVE OPENS TO PUBLIC

Massive Holocaust Archive Opens to the Public (Der Spiegel-Germany)
The Red Cross and the German government announced Wednesday that the last of the 11 countries that administer the International Tracing Service (ITS) archive in the German town of Bad Arolsen had ratified a 2006 agreement, thereby opening the files to the public for the first time.

The archive, which contains more than 50 million pages of documents stored in six buildings, represents a rich resource for Holocaust historians and is expected to shed new light on the details of the Nazi genocide.

The German archive provided digital copies of its entire archive to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and the Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem in August.