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If you enjoyed the movie "Monuments Men," don't miss our new Citizen Archivist mission on looted art!

During the Second World War, the N***s stole huge numbers of artworks and hid them. In this photograph from 1945, M. SGT Harold Maus of Scranton, PA, holds a Durer engraving, which was found among other art treasures at the Merker Salt Mine.

Help us transcribe property control cards, which may include information such as artwork classification, identifying marks, history and ownership, and more.

These transcriptions make it easier to find documents in our online Catalog, which aids researchers and makes history more accessible to the public!

To participate, go to https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/missions

Image: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5757194

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. More than 6 million Jews and 11 million others were killed by the N**i regime and its collaborators*. The National Archives holds many primary sources related to the Holocaust, including film footage taken by the US Army.

Recently, Auschwitz survivor Lilly Engleman Ebert identified herself in a reel of U.S. Army Signal Corps footage. (She is second from the right in this photo.) Ebert’s great-grandson managed to track down the short clip amongst hundreds of thousands of hours of footage.

Ebert had been imprisoned at Auschwitz before being forced on a death march to Buchenwald, where she was eventually liberated by American soldiers. The footage she appears in was filmed by Signal Corps members attached to military units tasked with rehabilitating and relocating liberated camp survivors.

Holocaust survivors and their families sometimes start their research with the National Archives, but they also locate our records through the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The museum makes films from the National Archives holdings available on their webpage, which is where Ebert found the footage of his great-grandmother.

The two institutions collaborate when records are located through the museum and additional copies or information are needed by the researcher, making these important records and history accessible to more people.

Learn more in today's blog post on the Unwritten Record: http://go.usa.gov/xAH7U

*For questions about this number, please see https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/documenting-numbers-of-victims-of-the-holocaust-and-nazi-persecution

Image: Still from "Orphans of Buchenwald/Ex-Prisoners Coming Home/Air Views HQ and Camps (1945)." June 17 & 19, 1945. National Archives Identifier: 111-ADC-4812

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