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Record collection and record preservation have direct consequences for survivors and often determine the efficacy of the production of genocide memory. Currently, there are increased restrictions that limit our access to evidence and threaten long-term preservation of records. This article will focus on the recent decision to permanently destroy Independent Assessment Process files within fifteen years. ...

During the Second World War, National Socialists used popular theories of eugenics and race science to control and manipulate the population of the Third Reich, in order to establish their ideal “Aryan” ethnic German nation. One method used to accomplish this goal was the establishment of forced sterilization programs, in which “undesirable” populations were persecuted through negative eugenics-based ...

Jan Karski tells of his capture and torture by the Gestapo when he was a courier for the Polish underground. He also describes his clandestine visit to the Warsaw ghetto and his meeting with Szmul Zygielbojm, six months before Zygelbojm's suicide. See pages 491 - 494 of the English translation of Lanzmann's memoir The Patagonian Hare (March 2012) for a description of his interactions with Karski after ...