Survivors of the Holocaust Searching for their Identity

Winter Semester 2011/12 – Study Office for Literature on the Holocaust at Justus-Liebig-University Gießen

The International Tracing Service (ITS) and the Study Office for Literature on the Holocaust at Justus-Liebig-University Gießen jointly offer a block course titled “Claimed Nationality – Desired Destination” in November and December 2011. Subject of the seminar will be texts composed by survivors, which are to be scrutinized from both, a German and historical studies’ perspectives first. In a second step, the students will come to analyse the significance of survival, identities and new starts in other countries using the documents of the ITS to that end.

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February 25,2011

ITS takes part in EHRI project

Research project funded by the European Union

The European Union has launched the project “European Holocaust Research Infrastructure – EHRI”. In the coming four years, researchers from 20 partner organizations – among them the ITS - out of 13 countries will build up a unique database on the Holocaust combining now dispersed archives around Europe.

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September 27,2009

Website on Persecuted Children and Adolescents

Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

The Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe is planning to launch a website on the subject of »Children and Adolescents from all over Europe persecuted under the Nazi reign«, its objective being a biographical documentation and reconstruction of the lives of the children and adolescents affected. The International Tracing Service (ITS) will support the project by making available documents from its archive.  

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September 7,2009

Reconstruction of Lives

Memorial Centre of the Former SS Special Camp/CC Hinzert

Cooperation with the Memorial Centre SS Special Camp/CC Hinzert mainly concentrates on adjusting data. The knowledge gained on the prisoners of CC Hinzert at both the memorial centre and the archive of the International Tracing Service (ITS) is compared, rectified and completed. Proceeding this way, the two institutions hope to reconstruct as many lives and fates of the former inmates as possible.  

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August 10,2009

"Survivors’ voices must continue to be heard"

ITS supports “Youth for Dora” project

The International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen has assumed the role as a cooperative partner for the project “Survivors prospect the future” initiated by the “Youth for Dora” (Jugend für Dora) association. The project’s objective is to facilitate the involvement of the survivors of Nazi persecution in the discussion about future commemorative work. Six young people from Leipzig who work on the project visited Bad Arolsen for a three-day research stay. “We are happy to offer them support with their research endeavours,” said ITS historian Susanne Urban. “Survivors’ voices must continue to be heard.”

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April 23,2009

Online forced labour archive

Collaboration of the Freie Universität Berlin and ITS

The Freie Universität Berlin and the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen are collaborating on the development of the digital archive “Forced labour from 1939–1945. Memory and history”. “We hope to gain valuable information on the fate of forced labourers during the National Socialist regime from the comprehensive archive at ITS,” said Professor Dr Nicolas Apostolopoulos, Project Manager at the Centre for Digital Systems (CeDiS), which is carrying out the online project in cooperation with the Institute for Eastern European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin.

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