[Workshop]  

The ITS will organise and host an international workshop on the subject of “Geography and Holocaust Research” in Bad Arolsen between 27 and 29 May 2012. The workshop will be held within the framework of the EU project “European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI)”. The event is supposed to create a platform to broaden the interdisciplinary cooperation in historiography and, in particular, in Holocaust Research. The results of the pertinent methodical exchange of ideas are to contribute to and enrich the build-up of the planned EHRI archives and research portal. An invitation is required.

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[News | 04-29-2013]  

At the end of April 2013, Detleff Nordt reported on his search for his own identity before 23 students from the Wilhelm Filchner School, Wolfhagen. Nordt was born on 30 March, 1944, in the Lebensborn home “Pommern” in Bad Polzin. His mother had never talked about his father and the Nazi times. Historian Dr. Georg Lilienthal and high-school teacher Marcus von der Straten participated in the question and answer session that followed the lecture by the contemporary witness.

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[News | 04-23-2013]  

Andreas Weigelt spent three days at the International Tracing Service (ITS) reviewing the document collection for the concentration camp Lieberose. Under the auspices of the parish, a commemorative book of Lieberose will be published next year. "At the ITS I can not only research the documents, but I can also search through the correspondence files that are valuable for my work," says the historian. "From the previous inquiries from survivors or family members of the victims of persecution, I hope to find yet more unknown information."

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"Jews pulled from a Bunker" - Photographs from the Stroop Report.

[Anniversary]  

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began 70 years ago, on 19 April 1943. The Jews fought bravely and desperately until the uprising was crushed on 16 May 1943 as they tried to stir the world to action. In mid-May the ghetto in the northern part of Warsaw was in ruins.

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[News | 04-08-2013]  

The Department for Historical Research and Education at the ITS presents three exhibition banners on the subject of “Early Post-War Testimonies”. Statements of survivors can be found in the ITS collections in many different forms.

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[Anniversary]  

"Germans, defend yourselves! Do not buy from Jews!" With such demands directed to the address of so-called "people’s community" (Volksgemeinschaft), the country's organized boycott of Jewish businesses, law firms, and medical practices began on 1 April 1933.

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