Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume I
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Introduction to Volume I
- 1 Historiography of the Holocaust: Early Developments
- 2 The Historiography of the Holocaust: The Years of Diversification and Integration
- 3 From “Final Solution” to “Holocaust”: Autobiographical Reflections
- 4 The Holocaust, Genocide, and the Origins of the Commensurability Problem
- 5 Fascism and Holocaust
- 6 The Holocaust and Modernity
- 7 Integrated Approaches and Boundaries in Holocaust Scholarship
- 8 Mapping the Holocaust
- 9 Archiving the Holocaust
- 10 Antisemitism in Interwar Europe
- 11 Race-Thinking, Völkisch-Nationalism, and Eugenics
- 12 Inter-ethnic Violence in Europe before the Holocaust
- 13 Communism and Anticommunism
- 14 Weimar Germany’s Vanishing Point: Politics, Violence, and the Rise of the Nazis, 1918–1933
- 15 Hitler and the Nazi Party
- 16 Hitler, State, and Party
- 17 Antisemitic Policy in the Early Years of the Third Reich
- 18 Popular Participation in Anti-Jewish Policy up to 1938
- 19 Nazi Biopolitics: Eugenics, Racial Policy, and the Persecution of “Asoziale,” 1933–1939
- 20 “Judenforschung”: Nazi Jewish Studies
- 21 Belonging and Belongings: The Dispossession of German Jews
- 22 Kristallnacht
- 23 Lebensraum, Autarky, and a New Imperial Order
- 24 International Responses to Nazi Race and Jewish Policy, 1933–1939
- Index
- References
9 - Archiving the Holocaust
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2025
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume I
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Introduction to Volume I
- 1 Historiography of the Holocaust: Early Developments
- 2 The Historiography of the Holocaust: The Years of Diversification and Integration
- 3 From “Final Solution” to “Holocaust”: Autobiographical Reflections
- 4 The Holocaust, Genocide, and the Origins of the Commensurability Problem
- 5 Fascism and Holocaust
- 6 The Holocaust and Modernity
- 7 Integrated Approaches and Boundaries in Holocaust Scholarship
- 8 Mapping the Holocaust
- 9 Archiving the Holocaust
- 10 Antisemitism in Interwar Europe
- 11 Race-Thinking, Völkisch-Nationalism, and Eugenics
- 12 Inter-ethnic Violence in Europe before the Holocaust
- 13 Communism and Anticommunism
- 14 Weimar Germany’s Vanishing Point: Politics, Violence, and the Rise of the Nazis, 1918–1933
- 15 Hitler and the Nazi Party
- 16 Hitler, State, and Party
- 17 Antisemitic Policy in the Early Years of the Third Reich
- 18 Popular Participation in Anti-Jewish Policy up to 1938
- 19 Nazi Biopolitics: Eugenics, Racial Policy, and the Persecution of “Asoziale,” 1933–1939
- 20 “Judenforschung”: Nazi Jewish Studies
- 21 Belonging and Belongings: The Dispossession of German Jews
- 22 Kristallnacht
- 23 Lebensraum, Autarky, and a New Imperial Order
- 24 International Responses to Nazi Race and Jewish Policy, 1933–1939
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter introduces the extraordinary range of archival materials and archives used by Holocaust scholars. It chronicles the efforts of prewar organizations to preserve Jewish papers and artifacts, and the clandestine efforts in ghettos and even in camps to document the unfolding genocide. This is followed by accounts of postwar retrieval efforts, often delayed for decades, and documentation efforts with multiple legal, historical, memorial, and welfare goals in mind. Some lacked a fixed home and dissolved, others followed their organizers to new homes. A fierce battle developed over German government, military, and industrial records and over postwar civilian search records. Since the 1980s, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum has joined Yad Vashem as a central collection point for Holocaust material. Finally, the chapter turns to what constitutes a valuable artifact and to the impact of digitization on the Holocaust archive.
Keywords
Archivesrecordsrestitutiontrialsdocumentation projectsoral historyJewish historical projectscivil resistancetracing servicesRingelblum archiveAlfred Wienerblack booksYizkor booksYIVOUS Holocaust Memorial MuseumYad VashemScrolls of Auschwitzthe National Committee for Attending Deportees BudapestCentral Jewish Historical CommissionSoviets’ Extraordinary State Commission on Reporting and Investigating the Atrocities of the German Fascist OccupiersNuremberg Trialsinternational Tracing ServiceEuropean Holocaust Research Infrastructuredigitization“ethics of the algorithm”
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- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust , pp. 174 - 197Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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