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Arolsen Archives
The former International Tracing Service. Concentration camp, forced labour and displaced-persons records for some seventeen and a half million people, free and fully indexed.
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Last checked 2026-09-22. Tell us if this has changed.
The ground it holds
Record regions whose registers are filed here, and for which years.
- 1943–1945 Adriatisches Küstenland
- 1943–1945 Adriatisches Küstenland
- 1943–1945 Adriatisches Küstenland
- 1941–1943 Italian Governatorate of Dalmatia
- 1943–1945 German occupation
- 1939–1945 German occupation — Reichsgau Wartheland
- 1939–1945 German and Soviet occupation
- 1941–1944 Romania — restored
- 1938–1945 Sudetenland and the Reichsprotektorat
- 1938–1945 Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren
- 1918–1945 Hungary after Trianon — THE TRAP, AND IT IS THE LARGEST ON THIS MAP. Trianon in 1920 moved TWO THIRDS of the Kingdom of Hungary to Romania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. A village that was Hungarian in 1890 keeps its pre-1920 registers in Budapest AND its later ones in Bucharest, Bratislava or Belgrade — under a name that also changed.
- 1939–1945 German occupation
- 1940–1944 German annexation
- 1939–1945 German annexation of the whole
- 1940–1991 Soviet Union — Estonian and Latvian SSRs, with a German occupation 1941–44
- 1939–1945 The General Government and the annexed western districts
- 1941–1945 Partitioned between Germany, Italy and Hungary
- 1941–1945 The Independent State of Croatia
- 1941–1944 Partitioned — Hungary in the north, German Banat, Croatia in the west
- 1940–1945 German occupation
- 1914–1918 German occupation
- 1940–1944 German occupation
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