The vast Arolsen Archives, located in the quaint spa town of Bad Arolsen in central Germany, is the world's largest repository of information on the victims and survivors of the Nazi regime. Eighty years after the end of World War II, people all over the world are still discovering the fate of their family members sent to Adolf Hitler's Nazi death camps. "Approximately 20,000 people contact us each year asking for information about the fate of a relative", says the director, Floriane Azoulay.
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00:00On est contacté par environ 20 000 personnes par an qui nous demandent des renseignements
00:28sur le destin d'un proche en général, mais aussi on a 800 000 utilisateurs de nos archives qui sont en ligne.
00:36Lorsque nous avons position, je dirais, à une impasse et qu'aucun état civil ne peut plus nous aider,
00:42à ce moment-là, nous faisons appel grâce aux réseaux sociaux, aux volontaires et à toute personne qui pourrait,
00:49qui est susceptible de savoir ce qui est arrivé ou peut être une famille x ou y dans un endroit bien précis.
00:58Et il a été habillé dans un état de quatre mois et en France,
01:03et il a été habillé dans un état de l'Université d'un mois et d'un mois.
01:07But I have seen on the mill there, there is the one in Bale for Martha Bärstift.
01:23Here, my daughter, who is named after the wife of Wilhelm.
01:32I think she will continue to hold her in honor and maybe later she will reach her children.
01:40She will stay in the family.
01:45This is from 1949.
01:471949, when she was two years old.
01:51In Bamberg.
01:54This is the first card.
01:58It's not going to happen.
02:02For us, it would be a highlight to know that someone has survived.
02:11We are bigger than that nobody lives.
02:14It is possible in today's time, when everything is digitalized,
02:19it is possible.
02:21And we have the hope to stop.
02:24We have the hope.
02:25When the Hauptsynagoge was opened,
02:29we have the hope to stop and see if it is the first card that will change.
02:33The spot and see if that is the only one's on the list.
02:37And this is the only one's on the list.
02:39Because the maiden name is the only one's on the list.
02:41For us, we can see and then see that the title of the book.
02:45Why?
02:46In the first video we have the title of the book that has known.
02:47Why?
02:49Because we are into a review.