January 31,2012

President of the German Federal Archives gets an impression of the International Tracing Service

Press Release

Over the last two days Dr. Michael Hollmann, the president of the German Federal Archive, has been visiting the archive of the International Tracing Service (ITS) for the first time. The ITS archive contains about 30 million documents relating to Nazi persecution. From January 2013 the Federal Archive will become the "institutional partner" of the ITS as stipulated in a recently signed international agreement on the role and administration of the ITS. "I wanted to get an idea of what lies ahead of us", Hollmann said. "As a future partner the Federal Archive will provide advice and assistance to the ITS, first and foremost, in archival matters."

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