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- Registration of Foreigners and German Persecutees by Public Institutions, Social Securities and Companies – this 7.5 million documents strong group of collections can be roughly divided into two: lists created on behest of the occupation authorities detailing foreigners as well as Jews who resided in Germany or were buried there during the war, and millions of documents concerning forced labor in German communes and firms

- DP – this group contains many collations of lists and index cards, as well as requests for IRO assistance, immigration lists, and medical files of DP patients in the forties and fifties

- The Arolsen Archives own case files and child tracing files – while this collection group does not contain “wartime documentation,” it does contain a multitude of requests for information on individuals and families, which often contain valuable information and first-hand testimonies concerning the fates of those who were never registered by the Germans.

- The Central Name Index – the analog name index containing more than 50,000,000 cards pertaining to some 17,000,000 individuals.

In addition to these main collection groups, the Arolsen Archives hold many more documents which it acquired and inherited along the years – from German military court material proceedings, Soviet “Filtration Files” of repatriated eastern bloc citizens screened by the NKVD, Romanian applications for reparation, and many more collections.