Центр документации | Dokumentationsstelle Dresden | Stiftung Sächsische Gedenkstätten

This online resource is a documentation center, named Dokumentationsstelle Dresden, which is part of the Stiftung Sächsische Gedenkstätten Foundation. The website provides information about individuals who were deprived of their freedom or their lives during the National Socialist dictatorship, the Soviet occupation of Germany, and the German Democratic Republic. It answers approximately 700 annual inquiries from relatives, researchers, journalists, and official institutions. As a scientific documentation center, it analyzes historical materials and disseminates the findings to the public primarily through online databases. The work contributes to preserving the memory of those persecuted and fosters an interest in studying the past of individual families and society as a whole. The Documentation Center in Dresden is a working unit of the Saxon Memorials Association. It receives material and political support from the Free State of Saxony and the