Nose: "l. eingebog."
This is how a 21-year-old teacher from France is described on his "prisoner's personal card" when he was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944. The term "l. eingebog." probably stands for "slightly bent in."
Paul Le Goupil's name is one of tens of millions kept at the Arolsen Archive in the small Hessian town of Bad Arolsen, the largest international archive of Holocaust victims and survivors. Their task is to search for missing persons and clarify their fates.
Today, the staff still answer queries about some 20,000 people persecuted by the Nazi regime. In the online archive, for example, a user whose first name is John asks, "I'm looking for information about Julia's husband, who died in Auschwitz in 1943."