Holocaust Archive Not Ready for Digital Age
The climate-controlled room whirrs with electronics. A digital recorder copies a 46-year-old video of the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Other machines digitize audio testimonies taped by Holocaust survivors. Microfilmed war documents flash across a digital scanner at two images per second, or 5 million a month.
Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial is getting its huge archive ready to go online.
In Washington, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is reproducing its own millions of pages of wartime records in digital format.
One more archive _ perhaps the mother lode from history's worst genocide _ is missing.
In the German town of Bad Arolsen, technicians are scanning the largest closed collection of Nazi documents, sheet by sheet. The archive is managed by the International Tracing Service, created by the International Committee of the Red Cross in the chaotic aftermath of World War II to track down missing persons and help reunite families.
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Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial is getting its huge archive ready to go online.
In Washington, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is reproducing its own millions of pages of wartime records in digital format.
One more archive _ perhaps the mother lode from history's worst genocide _ is missing.
In the German town of Bad Arolsen, technicians are scanning the largest closed collection of Nazi documents, sheet by sheet. The archive is managed by the International Tracing Service, created by the International Committee of the Red Cross in the chaotic aftermath of World War II to track down missing persons and help reunite families.