Organisation

Placed end-to-end, the documents in the ITS archives would extent to a length of about 26,000 metres. They are divided into the three main sections Incarceration, Forced Labour and Displaced Persons. An important key to the documents is the alphabetically and phonetically arranged Central Name Index containing over 50 million reference cards for over 17.5 million people.

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Description of the documents

Describing the documents in the archives of the International Tracing Service (ITS) for all historical issues is an urgent responsibility. The aim is to compile finding aids that are based on internationally acknowledged archival standards and can be published online.

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Paper on the Archival Processing at the ITS

The paper explains the guiding principles of the archival processing at the ITS. It amplifies the handling of the records, the terminology, the preservation and the archival description.

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Inventory Lists

When the collection is digitised, the documents will be divided into different sections, each with its own inventory list.

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Inventory Search

ITS preserves over 21,000 archival or historical collection units. All archival or historical collection units inventoried - a description of each stock included - can be called up in this database.

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Phonetic Classification

Very often a large number of documents relating to the same victim exist, in which the names of persons, institutions and places are spelled in a variety of ways. This problem can be solved by ITS staff based on their professional expertise and with the help of computer software.

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