Archives with data on Holocaust victims digitised and posted online


  • TECH
  • Sunday, 25 Aug 2019

The main gate of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and death camp. — dpa

A US genealogy company has digitised millions of records from an archive on victims of Nazi persecution and made them available online for the first time.

Ancestry, the genealogy company, used advanced technology to digitize millions of names and other information found in the archive and made the documents searchable at a website sponsored by Ancestry, the company said.

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