The Arolsen Holocaust Archive

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Project Summary

The Arolsen Holocaust Archive chronicles the history of the Nazi repository of voluminous prisoner records from World War II, capturing in excruciating exactitude the Nazi campaign to murder millions and eradicate European Jewry. Located in Bad Arolsen, Germany, and under the auspices of the International Red Cross, the International Tracing Service (ITS) was renamed the Arolsen Archives – International Center on Nazi Prosecution in 2019 and is one of the largest Holocaust archives in the world. The repository holds 17.5 million name cards, over 50 million documents and more than 16 miles of records and artifacts―all of which were out of reach for both survivors and scholars from its founding in 1943 until the ITS’s opening to the public in 2007.

Richard Ehrlich is the first and only photographer to gain permission to photograph these archives. The series was shown at the Craig Krull Gallery in Los Angeles in 2008, University at Buffalo, New York in 2009, and UCLA in 2010.

Publication

Published February 1, 2022 | Steidl Verlag

ISBN 978-3958298897

Press

August 24, 2008
His Holocaust Document, Los Angeles Times

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