Tracing the Past e.V. is a registered non-profit organization in Berlin, Germany. The organization was founded in 2014 by a group of like-minded provenance researchers and historians, who felt there was a lack of memorialization in Germany on the street level for victims of the Nazi Regime. The organization's first step was to combine a digitized database of the census cards of German Jews from the 1939 German Census, which showed peoples' residential addresses, with the so-called "Resident's List" of the German Federal Archives, which recorded the fates of all known Jews living in Germany 1933-1945 under the Nazi Regime. By combining the residential addresses with known data about death, deportation, imprisonment, and emigration, it was possible to create interactive maps showing where these people once lived and the ways that Nazi race politics destroyed their lives. This work, created using strict academic attribution standards, is the basis of Tracing the Past's project Mapping the Lives. The project currently has 950,000 unique biographical entries for persecuted people who were living within the borders of 1939 Germany, which today includes parts of Poland and Kaliningrad, Russia. The Netherlands is the first country outside of Germany to be included in the Mapping the Lives project. Mapping the Lives is recommended as a resource by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, the former for memorialization and the latter to assist researchers in locating the heirs of original owners of cultural goods looted by the Nazis. A number of other platforms also recommend Mapping the Lives as a research tool. With its 950.000 entries for individual people (including survivors), Mapping the Lives is the largest online site in Germany dedicated to the memorial of those persecuted by the Nazi Regime and among the first site to employ this level of interactive mapping. By contrast, the Holocaust Memorial Book of the German Federal Archives has entries for 176,475 people but reveals only their cities of residence. As of current date (March 2023), the Tracing the Past organization has been supported solely by private donations and has thus far had no financial support from the German government. References External Links Official website of Tracing the Past e.V., viewed 1 March 2023. Official website, of Mapping the Lives, a project of Tracing the Past e.V., viewed 1 March 2023.