The project everynamecounts - Arolsen Archives - in bilingual history year 9-
The project #everynamecounts - Arolsen Archives - in bilingual history year 9-
On
the 9th of January we, the bilingual students of the classes 9 a & b
did research on the Arolsen Archives. The Arolsen Archives is one of
the largest collection of information and belongings of victims of the
Second World War. The archives store information, so that people can
find out more about the past of relatives and friends who died due to
the Nazi terror during the Second World War. The Arolsen Archives have
already scanned a lot of documents and are currently transferring the
information so that people don't have to go there or call them, but can
just type in the name of the person they want information about and find
it online. But because there are thousands of documents and millions of
other artefacts, it would take a really long time to process all of
these items alone, and therefore you can help them and that is also what
we did in that lesson. We went to the Arolsen Archives website with the
iPads and clicked on the button "Learn and participate" and then on
#everynamecounts. We then saw the prisoner file cards on the left side
of the display. Sometimes there was a lot of information and sometimes
just a name and the year of birth. On the right side there were boxes
where you could enter the information “deciphered“ on the left side.
When you entered all the given information, you press send and you're
done. Of course, it is being checked again, but the people there have a
lot less work to do.
I personally found it very interesting, because
I could see how old people were, what their profession was, where they
came from and much more. You should go check it out! It is a really good
way to get an original insight into the lives of former concentration
camp prisoners. The vast numbers of victims thus become a little bit
more graspable and approchable than ususally. The project
#everynamecounts tries to give the millions of people that were
persecuted and murdered by the Nazis a face and helps to remember them
adequately.
Malin Stiegeler, 9b
More infos on the project #everynamecounts can be found here:
Burg-GymnasiumSchorndorf
