German Gen

01/08/2024

Fabulous review of our exhibition in the newspaper today 💕
https://taz.de/!6024132/

16/07/2024

ZLB in die Friedrichstraße. Wie für uns gemacht. Jetzt unterstützen und unterschreiben https://www.zlb.de/unterschreiben

25/03/2024

On rare occasions, we accompany clients to embassy appointments. This client could apply for a passport without previous confirmation of citizenship.

31/08/2023

Not all sources are in an archive. Holocaust victims could claim compensation from the German government after 1959. These files are often still with the holding institution and can be consulted at local courts within Germany. Here we consulted the compensation file of the client’s mother for his citizenship claim.

28/03/2023

At the archives for our clients today 🕵️‍♀️🗃📓📖
The archive holding material on your family is on the other side of the globe 🌏?
You don't even speak the language?
We've got you covered!

28/06/2022

Amazing what technology can do - a Google engineer found a way to identify family in historical photographs https://www.timesofisrael.com/google-engineer-identifies-anonymous-faces-in-wwii-photos-with-ai-facial-recognition/?

While visiting the POLIN museum in 2016, Daniel Patt realized he could be walking by his own relatives without knowing it, so he designed a platform 'From Numbers to Names'

11/11/2021

For the sake of your grandchildren, who may one day want to read your letters, please DO NOT turn the page 90° and continue writing to save on paper and stamps 😳
(h/t Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Digital Collections)