Thousands of volunteers are already helping out.įrom January 21 to 27 in Berlin, a media installation dedicated to the victims of National Socialism will be projected onto the façade of the French Embassy, bringing #everynamecounts to the public. All you need to participate in #everynamecounts is a computer with an internet connection. You can spend as much time on it as you like. This is why Arolsen Archives launched the #everynamecounts crowdsourcing initiative. To do this, the names and data in scanned historical documents must be digitally transcribed.
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But the initiative is important to today’s society as well – because by looking back, we can see where discrimination, racism and antisemitism lead.Īrolsen Archives are building the world’s largest online archive on people persecuted and murdered by the Nazis. Future generations should be able to remember the names and identities of these victims. #everynamecounts is an initiative by the Arolsen Archives which aims to establish a digital memorial to the people persecuted by the Nazis. #everynamecounts, Crowdsourcing event digital monument and livestream.
Thu 21 Jan and Wed | Arolsen Archives, Bad Arolsen, Germany Given the COVID-19 situation, most of them are online. Several of the events organised by our partners are listed below. The majority of EHRI's partners also organise events on or around 27 January to commemorate the Holocaust, to learn and to never forget. Holocaust Memorial Day or Holocaust Remembrance Day is worldwide marked by local, national and international events. On 27 January 1945, the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp complex was liberated. In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated 27 January as the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, the day upon which every year the world would mark and remember the Holocaust and its victims.
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