The Nizkor Project

The Nizkor Project is one of the longest-running online resources dedicated to documenting the Holocaust and refuting Holocaust denial. It was founded in 1991 by Ken McVay, a Canadian who started the project in response to the early appearance of denial material on Usenet and other early online forums. The name comes from the Hebrew word for “we will remember.”

The site holds thousands of documents from the Nuremberg trials, transcripts of testimony, photographs, and the source material needed to answer the standard claims of organised Holocaust denial. Much of the material on Nizkor is older than the equivalent collections held by the major institutional archives, and the Nizkor approach was always to make the primary documents available in full, so that any reader could check the historical record for themselves.

The project has had a difficult institutional history. McVay stepped back in the mid-2000s and the site went through periods of inactivity. Some of the original archive has been migrated to other hosts and some links have decayed. The core material, however, is still available and remains a useful entry point for anyone needing to look up a specific Nuremberg document or trial transcript.

Website: www.nizkor.com