Beginning of family reseach at ITS

Press release

This week 42 genealogists are carrying out research at the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Arolsen. They are in the main Jewish name researchers from the USA, Australia, Israel and Great Britain who are compiling data on Holocaust victims and survivors. “This is the biggest group of researchers that has so far come to the ITS in Arolsen”, says ITS Deputy Director Erich Oetiker. “Opening the archives has already had a positive effect, and is perceived as a valuable asset”.

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April 30/2008

A new leaf has been turned over at the Tracing Service

Press Release

A ceremony has marked the opening of the archives at the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen. The archive is now open for historical research and the public. „We are turning over a new leaf in the history of the ITS“, says Director Reto Meister. „This opening will contribute to keeping alive the remembrance of the monstrous crimes that went on throughout Nazi era. And at the same it will promote our work with research institutions, memorials and museums.

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March 20/2008

Handover of data on Displaced Persons

Press Release

Yesterday the International Tracing Service (ITS) based at Bad Arolsen handed over further documents to the Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and the National Institute of Remembrance in Warsaw. The material encloses digital copies of index cards relating to Displaced Persons compiled after the end of the Second World War. An operational meeting held with representatives of national organizations from the member States of the International Commission, the supervisory body of the ITS, was the occasion for this exchange of data.

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February 6/2008

ICRC President signs agreement

Press Release

Staying with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Warsaw, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Jakob Kellenberger, signed the Amendment of the Agreement between the International Commission for the International Tracing Service and the ICRC decided in 2006.

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February 1/2008

Historian taken aboard

Press Release

With Dr. Irmtrud Wojak, the ITS has employed a historian of reputation. Irmtrud Wojak did theme-oriented research relating to the National Socialist persecution and extermination policy and to emigration action during the Third Reich.

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Contact

International Tracing Service (ITS)

Press Office

Kathrin Flor
Head of Communication

Grosse Allee 5-9
34454 Bad Arolsen
Germany

Tel.: +49 (0)5691 629 116
Mobile: +49 (0)170 900 84 95
Fax: +49 (0)5691 629 501

E-Mail: communications[at] its-arolsen.org