Pupils Pursue Research on North Hessian Nazi Victims

January 2011 - “Filchner” Comprehensive School at Wolfhagen

26 pupils attending the 10 form of the Filchner-Comprehensive School at Wolfhagen organise their own history workshop in collaboration with the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen. Making targeted use of both, the ITS digital archives and library, the pupils retrace the fates of Jews and Sinti from North Hesse under National Socialist persecution. Another subject they delve into is the survivors who were living in camps reserved to Displaced Persons in North Hesse after the war.

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Training for Graduates in Educational Science

Autumn 2011 – International School for Holocaust Studies (ISHS) Yad Vashem in Jerusalem

Late in 2010, a cooperation agreement on advanced training to be provided to instructors at the International Tracing Service (ITS) was concluded with the International School for Holocaust Studies (ISHS), a section of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Within the framework of a training for graduates in educational science offered as of October 2011, the first German speaking educational scientists will spend three or four days at the ITS to deepen their knowledge.

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“ITS – An Institution for the Victims and the Survivors of Nazi Persecution”

April 2011 – Advanced Training for Teachers and Instructors

In collaboration with the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen, the “Gemeinschaft Evangelischer Erzieher e.V. (GEE)” (community of Lutheran educators) for the regions of Rhineland/Saar/Westphalia and the Capek Society for International Understanding and Humanism offer instructors and other interested persons advanced training on the subject “The International Tracing Service (ITS): An Institution for the Victims and the Survivors of  Nazi Persecution”  late in April 2011. After a general introduction to the tasks of the ITS and a tour of the archives, the participants gain an insight into the educational concept of the ITS.

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Producing Teaching Material

Winter Semester 2010/2011 – Kassel University

In a two-semester project and in collaboration with the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen, students of Kassel University produce teaching material for middle and upper grade pupils. In the course of a project seminar, the students from the Faculty of Educational Studies occupy their minds with the subject of those children’s fates who had survived the National Socialists’ rule.

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November 22,2010

History Workshop on Nazi Persecution

“Filchner” Comprehensive School at Wolfhagen

In mid-November, 16 pupils of the 10th and 11th forms of the afore-mentioned school began working on a project titled “The Terror System of National Socialism – the Fates of the Victims” at the archives of the International Tracing Service (ITS). Among the main topics the history workshop looked into were a) The Organisation of the Terror System and of the Concentration Camps, b) Forced Labour in Northern Hesse, c) Victims of persecution and d) Displaced Persons in the Wolfhagen surroundings.

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Seminar at Darmstadt Technical University

Autumn 2010 – Darmstadt University

In the summer semester 2010, the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen offered its first seminar at Darmstadt Technical University on the subject of “Displaced Persons: Forced Migration, Sociology, Decisions – DP Camp Zeilsheim”. The seminar resumed the thread of the virtual exhibition titled “Persecution, Annihilation, Liberation, and then? Jewish Survivors in Frankfurt Zeilsheim” conceived and realised by the Faculty of History at Darmstadt Technical University.

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October 29,2010

Pupils’ Project on the Holocaust

Christian Rauch Gymnasium Bad Arolsen

Spending a project week at the International Tracing Service (ITS), eight pupils of the “Christian Rauch” secondary school at Bad Arolsen concerned themselves with the main topic “Organized implementation of the Holocaust”. The concrete subjects they delved into were a) The Deportation and Expropriation of Jews and b) Survival after the Holocaust. The pupils not only analysed the documents, but, what is more, felt and showed empathy with the victims.

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October 30,2009

Project on DP Camps in Korbach and Kassel

Christian Rauch Gymnasium Bad Arolsen

For one week, a group of pupils from Bad Arolsen’s Christian Rauch School has studied the history of two camps for displaced persons situated in Korbach and Kassel (Hasenhecke/Wolfsanger) in the archives of the International Tracing Service (ITS). Their project focused on daily life in the DP Camp, the mutual relationship between people living in the surroundings of the camp and DPs and – as far as researchable within the brief time available – single biographies of survivors of Nazi persecution and forced labour.

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