A Memorial made of Paper: Arolsen Archives, International Center on Nazi Persecution

The Arolsen Archives – a Memorial made of Paper – store more than 30 Mio files on holocaust survivors, concentration camp inmates, forced labourers, and survivors. The Archives of the ITS, the International Tracing Service, was founded in order to compile information on the history of the victims as well as to deposit letters of their relatives who had contacted the archives. It is an organic archive, continuously growing. The special exhibition about the founding and procedures of the archives is shown in Bad Arolsen until the UNESCO-Memory of the World documents will move to a new building. gewerkdesign won the public contest for design and production of exhibition and catalogue. As part of the corona measures that were taken in 2020, visitors are now also able to experience the exhibition interactively on a 3D tour: Arolsen Archives online.