Yesterday, 9 June was International Archives Day. In September the International Council on Archives is holding its Congress in Seoul on the topic of Archives, Harmony and Friendship. In the digital age when collections and institutions are more connected we are used to thinking internationally about archives. The wanderings of pre-digital archives often reveal remarkable stories. One archival trail in our holdings at the University of Melbourne Archives that goes all the way from the North Pole to the South Pole is left by meteorologist Fritz Loewe. As a Jewish refugee he was also caught up in one of the great exoduses of the twentieth century. Find out more on the University of Melbourne Archives blog.
Image: Ernst Sorge and Fritz Loewe in their ice cave at Eismitte station in Greenland, Christmas, 1930, Fritz Philipp Loewe Collection, University of Melbourne Archives, 1988.0160.00002
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