Arolsen Archives: Tracing Millions of Nazi Victims

The Arolsen Archives, a UNESCO World Heritage site, documents the fates of millions of Nazi victims, allowing relatives to trace missing family members. Volunteers from around the world contribute to this effort. Sula Miller, a US citizen and daughter of Holocaust survivor Mendel Müller, spent five years searching for her family. She discovered that her father had been married before the war to Rosa, with whom he had two children: son Max, who was sent to an orphanage and deported to Auschwitz, and an unnamed child, both likely murdered there. Mendel Müller, forced into labor in an SS construction brigade at Buchenwald, later remarried and had a daughter, Helen, in 1947, but abandoned them when he emigrated to the US. In 1951, his wife Agnes sought help from the Arolsen Archives to locate him.