Arolsen Archives

The Arolsen Archives are the international center on Nazi persecution with the world’s largest archive on the victims and survivors of National Socialism.

“Not only is displacement affecting many more people today, but it is no longer a short-term and temporary phenomenon.
We need a fundamentally new and more positive attitude towards all those who flee – coupled with a much more determined effort to resolve conflicts that last for years and are the cause of this immense suffering.”

Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

The task was to find a connection between one’s own story and one of the stories of the displaced persons whose files are kept in the archive in Bad Arolsen, and to translate this connection into a story; in words and pictures.