Minister of State for Culture Roth calls for participation in the commemorative project #everynamecounts

The project al­ready in­volves thou­sands of vol­un­teers col­lect­ing da­ta from his­tor­i­cal con­cen­tra­tion camp doc­u­ments. The aim of the week-long cam­paign is now to cre­ate on­line records for the 30,000 cards re­lat­ing to the in­di­vid­u­als who were once in­mates of the for­mer con­cen­tra­tion camp Stut­thof by 29 Jan­uary. The Min­is­ter of State for Cul­ture and the Me­dia is the pa­tron of the ini­tia­tive.

Clau­dia Roth, Min­is­ter of State for Cul­ture: “#ev­ery­name­counts is con­cerned with for­ward-look­ing com­mem­o­ra­tion that de­serves our strong sup­port. A unique dig­i­tal memo­ri­al is be­ing cre­at­ed in which ev­ery­one can par­tic­i­pate and make a very con­crete con­tri­bu­tion to keep­ing the mem­o­ry of the vic­tims alive, rais­ing in­ter­na­tion­al vis­i­bil­i­ty of what hap­pened to them and in par­tic­u­lar en­sur­ing this in­for­ma­tion is made ac­ces­si­ble to younger peo­ple. At the same time, all those who take part are send­ing out a strong sig­nal against ha­tred and hate speech, against an­ti-Semitism and racism.”

The Arolsen Archives are con­sid­ered the world’s largest repos­i­to­ry of doc­u­ments re­lat­ing to vic­tims and sur­vivors of the Nazi regime. They con­tain more than 30 mil­lion orig­i­nal doc­u­ments with ref­er­ences to some 17.5 mil­lion in­di­vid­u­als. Al­so known as the In­ter­na­tion­al Cen­ter on Nazi Per­se­cu­tion, the in­sti­tu­tion con­tin­ues to work year by year to help thou­sands of rel­a­tives of the vic­tims of Nazi per­se­cu­tion to find out more about what be­came of their rel­a­tives. The Arolsen Archives is fi­nanced en­tire­ly from the bud­get of the Min­is­ter of State for Cul­ture and re­ceived fund­ing of 16.4 mil­lion eu­ros in 2023.

For fur­ther de­tails, see www.arolsen-archives.org
To vol­un­teer, see www.aroa.to/ev­ery­name­counts