3. Registration and Files of "Displaced Persons", Children and Missing Individuals

Organizational charts of the archival units

3.1. Proof of stay and emigration

3.1.1. Registration of and care for DPs inside and outside the camps

3.1.1.0 Generalia: camps, correspondence, service regulations
3.1.1.1 Post-war index
3.1.1.2 Registration of DPs in lists in DP camps
3.1.1.3 Registration of freed former persecutees in various places (F18 lists)
3.1.1.4 Registration of former persecutees who, for the most part, had died after the war, in various places (AL7 lists)
3.1.1.5 Index Cards of the "Central Location Index", New York
3.1.1.6 Card file of refugees in Stade

3.1.2. Medical treatment in hospitals

3.1.2.1 Records from hospitals run by the Allies
3.1.2.2 Medical files from DP hospitals

3.1.3. Emigration

3.1.3.1 Emigration index of Paris AJDC
3.1.3.2 Passengers` lists and other compilations on émigrés

3.2. Aid programs launched by various organisations

3.2.1. IRO program for "Care and Maintenance"

3.2.1.1 C/M 1 records Germany
3.2.1.2 C/M 1 records Italy
3.2.1.3 C/M 1 records Austria
3.2.1.4 C/M 1 records Switzerland
3.2.1.5 C/M 1 opposition proceedings, IRO Bureau Geneva 
3.2.1.6 C/M 1 records England

3.2.2. Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration

3.2.2.1 ICEM files

3.2.3. UN High Commissioner for Refugees

3.2.3.0 Correspondence and evaluations related to UNHCR Hongkong files
3.2.3.1 UNHCR files
3.2.4.1 Hong Kong files
3.2.3.2 Files of UNHCR Hongkong

3.3. Child Tracing Branch

3.3.1. "Limited Registration Program" (LRP)

3.3.1.1 Statistical analysis on LRP
3.3.1.2 Systematic punch card registration of the LRP documents
3.3.1.3 Evaluation of Hollerith cards by dates of birth
3.3.1.4 Various evaluations of Hollerith cards

3.3.2. Material used for tracing case treatment

3.3.2.1 Documents and correspondence related to clarifying the fate of children
3.3.2.2 Individual documents related clarifying the fate of children - accessions
3.3.2.3 Child-tracing index
3.3.2.4 Card file of foundlings sorted by location

Inventory Lists

The digitisation of the paper and microfilm archives began a number of years ago and is being carried out step by step. Parts of the collection that have already been processed are referred to as electronic archive units.

The digitised records of the ITS archive are divided into four sub-sections as follows:

  1. Detention and Persecution
    » see details 1

  2. Registration of Foreign Persons and German Persecutees through Authorities, Insurance Companies and Firms (1939 - 1947)
    » see details 2

  3. Registration and Files of "Displaced Persons", Children and Missing Persons
    » see details 3

  4. Special NSDAP organizations and actions
    » see details 4

  5. Miscellaneous
    » see details 5

  6. Records of the ITS and its predecessors
    » see details 6



 

Status: May 2011