Arolsen Holocaust archive

The Arolsen Holocaust Archive chronicles the history of the Nazi repository of voluminous prisoner records from World War II. New York–based photographer Richard Ehrlich (born 1938) is the first to record the interiors of the archives through photography, and thus to preserve the unspeakable atrocities it contains. Notable images include documentation of Schindler’s List and Anne Frank’s transport papers to Bergen-Belsen, as well as minute details of prisoner exploitation. 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.