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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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Documents from Hinzert in the ITS archives.

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In a further joint cooperation project, the Memorial of SS Special Camp/Concentration Camp Hinzert and the International Tracing Service (ITS) will systematically scrutinize and historically analyse the Nazi prisoners’ category “Eindeutschungs-Pole” (Polish prisoners who should become Germans)). The National Socialists created this prisoners’ category for Polish forced labourers who had a love affair with a German woman and, in consequence, were not punished by death, but as of 1942 transferred to Hinzert to undergo a “check of their capability to be Germanized” there.

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from left: Susanne Urban, ITS, Natalja Anisina and Ilya Altman, Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center

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A seminar organised in cooperation with the Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center and the House of the Wannsee Conference will be held at the International Tracing Service (ITS) on 3 and 4 May 2013. 15 educators from Russia will be staying in Berlin for a week and inform themselves about the history of National Socialism and the Persecution of the Jews on place. Starting point for this year’s programme will be the ITS in Bad Arolsen.

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This year’s annual meeting of the association “Lebensspuren e.V.”, Wernigerode, will take place at the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen late in April 2013. On the agenda of the non-public meeting are various talks, a film screening as well as an introduction to documents’ search in the ITS database. Some of the contemporary witnesses will also talk of their experiences at two schools in the surroundings.

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The diary of the Jewish girl Anne Frank (1929-1945) is a symbol of the Holocaust and an intimate document of a young writer’s individual life and thoughts. The exhibition has been planned and worked out within the scope of the project “Anne Frank and we” by the Anne Frank Centre in Berlin and the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. The travelling exhibition will be opened in Korbach at Wolfgang-Bonhage Museum on 14th April 2013.

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Dr Susanne Urban

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The talk, which is illustrated by photos taken in the Warsaw Ghetto, will focus first on the ghetto itself and then describe the living conditions and the underground activities. In a second step, Dr Urban will introduce the organisation of the resistance movements, the coordination of the uprising, its objectives and some of the leading figures.

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In cooperation with the pilot project Red Line and IKARus, the International Tracing Service (ITS) offers advanced training titled “Language and Viewpoints – How Homophobic Views are developed and abandoned”. The advanced training will be held at the ITS in Bad Arolsen on 12 and 13 March 2013. Closing date for the registration has been 25 February 2013.

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Dr Susanne Urban, Head of the Department for Research and Education at the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen, and Dr Reiner Becker from Marburg University will give a joint lecture on the subject of “Teaching Remembrance to Prevent Right-Wing Extremism?” at a meeting of experts dedicated to “Political Education ‘After Auschwitz’?” on 8 March 2013.

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A meeting of the Hessian memorials and commemorative initiatives for the Nazi era will take place for the first time at the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen on 7 March 2013. At the invitation of the Hesse Center for Civic Education (Landeszentrale für politische Bildung), participants will be given an insight into the role and work of the ITS. The program also includes reports on the projects of the institutions that take part in the meeting. An invitation is required.

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Big Foot Productions Inc. New York

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Naftali-Duro Furst, Pavel Kohn, Israel-Laszlo Lazar and Alex Moskovic survived the Buchenwald concentration camp as children. In April 2010, they returned to Buchenwald for the 65th anniversary of the liberation. For film producer Steve Moskovic, Alex's son, this meeting was the trigger for his project: a film that portrays the four men and documents their lifes and memories. "Kinderblock 66 - Return to Buchenwald" will be shown on Thursday, 28 February, at 18 o’clock at the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen. 

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Dr Susanne Urban, Head of the Department for Research Projects and Education at the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen, will give a lecture at Cologne University on 20 February 2013 on the subject: “Survivors of the Holocaust: Life in Transit. Jewish Displaced Persons between Trauma, Rehabilitation and a New Beginning”.

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C.H. Beck Verlag

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On 29 April 1945, when the Americans liberated the Dachau camp, they discovered to their great surprise seven women with babies. It was a miracle amid the destruction. The book "Born in a Concentration Camp" by Eva Gruberová and Helmut Zeller tells the incredible story of Eva Fleischmannová and Miriam Rosenthal, who gave birth to children in a concentration camp. The daughter of Eva Fleischmannová, Marika Novakova, will be present at the reading and will talk about her life story. The event on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day is organized jointly by the ITS and the association "Against Oblivion - For Democracy" in Volkmarsen.  

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Hessischer Rundfunk

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The exhibition "Legalized Robbery: The Taxation and the Looting of Jews in Hesse, 1933-1945," focuses on the laws and regulations that were created in 1933 for the plundering of Jewish citizens. The exhibition presents the laws of the tax authorities, those who implemented the laws in cooperation with other departments and institutions, and those who were the victims of these actions. The exhibition will be on display in the Wolfhagen Country Museum (Regionalmuseum Wolfhagen Land) from 17 January, to 7 April 2013.

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