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Archival records supporting the commonly cited figure of about six million Jewish deaths in the Holocaust come from multiple, independent documentary streams: captured Nazi paperwork (including Wannse...
Extensive primary-source evidence — Nazi administrative records, camp registers, death lists, photographs, survivor and perpetrator testimony, and Allied liberation reports — documents the system of c...
Survivor testimonies that describe the construction, layout and operation of Auschwitz gas chambers appear across multiple archives and news reports — notable first-person accounts include Sam Itzkowi...
The primary historical documents proving the Holocaust consist of Nazi-era administrative records (deportation lists, camp registers, orders), contemporaneous photographs and film, survivor and libera...
Researchers determining how many Jewish people were murdered in the Holocaust rely on vast, overlapping archival collections: institutional databases (Yad Vashem’s Central Database, USHMM’s Holocaust ...
The most decisive refutations of come not from any single source but from an interlocking body of primary archival records, contemporaneous bureaucratic paperwork and physical evidence, eyewitness and...
A broad and convergent body of primary-source evidence — Nazi administrative orders and decrees, camp records and photographs, contemporaneous reports from diplomats and relief agencies, thousands of ...
Survivor testimonies and large audiovisual archives — notably the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive and Yad Vashem’s testimony database — form the core eyewitness base historians use to gr...
Revised historical estimates reconcile differences between Nazi paperwork, local records, and survivor testimony by triangulating the Germans’ own documents with thousands of survivor interviews and n...