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Following their victory over Germany in 1945, the Allied Powers established structures to search for victims of Nazi persecution. This culminated in the establishment of the International Tracing Service in 1948, which was renamed the Arolsen Archives in 2019.
The archive contains 30 million documents relating to 17.5 million people, making it the world's largest archive of Nazi victims.
For many people, the archive is the only way to discover what happened to their relatives. Each year, the Arolsen Archives respond to around 20,000 enquiries about victims of Nazi persecution. By preserving millions of records of crimes in the long term, the Arolsen Archives are helping to prevent the forgetting of history, anti-Semitism, and attacks on democracy.
In recognition of this, the archives were added to the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.