Husserl’s well-tended archive has given him a rich afterlife, while Nietzsche’s was distorted by his axe-grinding sister
I have a terrible fear that I shall one day be pronounced holy: from Ecce Homo; by Friedrich Nietzsche
On the morning of 24 September 1938, a Franciscan priest by the name of Herman Van Breda arrived at the Belgian Embassy in Berlin, Germany, carrying three large, overstuffed suitcases. He had an appointment with Viscount J Berryer, the secretary to the Belgian ambassador. They met at 11am, and Van Breda handed over the suitcases, with Berryer assuring him they would be sent high security to Belgium, and would not be investigated by the German authorities, in accordance with international rules on diplomatic documents.
These were no ordinary papers, however. The suitcases contained the archives of the great German philosopher Edmund Husserl.
Husserl, the founder of phenomenology, had died five months earlier. Once one of the preeminent cultural voices in German philosophy, his last years had seen him lose his professorship, his access to the University of Freiburg, and many of his friends, including his friendship to his closest student, Martin Heidegger. Despite having converted to the Lutheran Church 50 years earlier, Husserl was born Jewish, and the racial laws brought in by the National Socialists in 1933 had seen his life, like so many others, destroyed….
https://aeon.co/essays/how-archives-can-make-or-break-a-philosophers-reputation
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People’s Archive of Rural India
GAZA casualties, live statistics
United Nations Documentation on the Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem
Gandhi’s Assassin. By Dhirendra K Jha
Delhi Police Archive on RSS activity in October-December 1947
EMERGENCY Archive / When the Supreme Court struck down Habeas Corpus
‘Baba’ – A Personal Tribute to Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi, by A. L. Basham
Toys from Trash: Teaching kids science using everyday objects / Visit Arvind Gupta’s Archive
After the truth-shower 