Effects Returned to 35 Families

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Today the International Tracing Service (ITS) of Bad Arolsen was able to return effects to 35 Dutch families at the Amersfoort Memorial Site. Most of the personal belongings were wallets which had been taken away from their owners by the Nazis during deportation to the Neuengamme concentration camp. “We are really pleased that contact could be established with the families thanks to the initiative of Gert van Dompseler and Pieter Dekker of Stichting October’44,” said Nicole Dominicus, head of Archival Requests and Visitors’ Service at ITS.

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February 11,2010

Photos Handed Over to Hinzert Memorial

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Today the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen handed over digitised photographs from its archive to the Hinzert Concentration Camp Memorial Site. Among the 35 photos in total are ten taken at the camp during the period of 1940/41. “The memorial site has only very few photographs at its disposal. We are therefore grateful for any additional photographic material,” said Dr Beate Welter, Director of the Hinzert Concentration Camp Memorial Site.

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February 2,2010

Digitisation of Correspondence Underway

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The International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen has commenced work on the most elaborate sub-project involved in the digitalisation of its case correspondence. Around three million files of correspondence between the tracing service, public authorities and the victims of national socialist persecution as well as their family members are to be digitised over the next few years. “Together with the original documents from the Nazi era, the correspondence cases offer a concise account of individual fates,” said Udo Jost, Head of the Archive Division at ITS. “They take the puzzle pieces from the documents, which are often only fragmentary, and assemble them to an overall picture.”

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January 20,2010

Roland Koch visits Tracing Service

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Roland Koch, Premier of the German state of Hesse, highlighted the significant work being done at the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen during his visit today. “The ITS has done magnificent humanitarian work in its role as a contact for many millions of people seeking information on their relatives. In future, research and educational work will be at the forefront, in addition to documentation, enabling the “Arolsen remembrance” to be preserved for future generations,” said Koch.

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January 15,2010

Digitisation of Post-War Era Documents Now Complete

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The International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen has now finished digitising its documents from the post-war era concerning displaced persons and emigration after the end of World War II. “This part of the ITS archives has hardly been explored so far,” said Udo Jost, Head of the Archive Division. “It offers excellent insights into life after survival, as well as the wave of migration which resulted from the war.” This week, ITS forwarded copies of the documents to its partner organisations in Israel, the US, Poland, Luxembourg and Belgium.

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Contact

International Tracing Service (ITS)

Press Office

Kathrin Flor
Head of Communication

Grosse Allee 5-9
34454 Bad Arolsen
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)5691 629 116
Fax: +49 (0)5691 629 501

Email: communications[at] its-arolsen.org