Which London institution launched a 1.3 million‑document Holocaust portal?
On Holocaust Memorial Day, 27 January 2025, London’s Wiener Holocaust Library unveiled an open‑access portal hosting 1.3 million documents—from ghetto diaries to SS telephone logs—scanned over three years. The site offers keyword search in nine languages and AI handwriting recognition for uncatalogued letters. Scholars praise new evidence on Baltic massacres, while teachers welcome classroom packs tracing family trees broken by genocide. Privacy advocates note victim and perpetrator data sit side by side, but curators cite EU research exemptions. Traffic crashed servers within hours; mirrored copies now run at UCL and Yad Vashem. Future phases will crowd‑source metadata from descendants, ensuring analogue testimony survives the deepfake era.
