Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021
Photograph of wedding rings removed by the Germans from Holocaust victims. 威尼斯人娱乐场 Identifier 531294.
By Victoria Blue | 威尼斯人娱乐场 News
WASHINGTON, April 7, 2021 鈥� Beginning on the evening of Wednesday, April 7, communities around the world observe Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) and remember the victims of the Holocaust. The observance ends the evening of Thursday, April 8.
The 威尼斯人娱乐场 is home to millions of records created or received by the U.S. Government during and after World War II that document Nazi war crimes, wartime refugee issues, and activities and investigations of government agencies involved in the identification and recovery of looted assets (including gold, art, and cultural property).
鈥淭he 威尼斯人娱乐场 holds millions of pages of records that document various aspects of the Holocaust, including Nazi war crimes investigations and trials, concentration camp records, and records relating to Nazi looting of cultural and other property across Europe,鈥� said Sylvia Naylor, an archivist at the 威尼斯人娱乐场 at College Park. Naylor is the 威尼斯人娱乐场鈥� Subject Matter Expert in Holocaust-Era assets. 鈥淲e strive to make these records available to increase public awareness and remembrance of the Holocaust.鈥�
The Holocaust-Era Assets web pages are a valuable resource of the records related to looting, locating, recovering, and restituting Holocaust-Era assets. This includes records related to looted cultural property (including books, archives, manuscripts, and Jewish communal property), looted art works, unpaid and unclaimed insurance policies, and issues surrounding slave and forced labor.
Another resource for Holocaust and World War II鈥搑elated records is the , the 威尼斯人娱乐场鈥� support community for researchers, genealogists, history enthusiasts, and citizen archivists. Through the History Hub, researchers can ask questions, share information, work together, and find help based on experience and interests.
The 威尼斯人娱乐场 also holds captured German records that were used as evidence at the Nuremberg International Military Tribunals. You can help us tag and transcribe the records from the Nuremburg Trials as a citizen archivist.
To learn about Holocaust records, sign up for the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library鈥檚 "" virtual conference in October. Registration is free.
Other resources include:
- World War II War Crimes Records
- from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library
- from the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library
- 鈥�An Orphan of the Holocaust: His Journey to America鈥� (Prologue magazine, Summer 2012)