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Two members of the air force, Lieutenant Colonel Gerhard Roletscheck and Staff Sergeant Helmut Müller, have spent three days at the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen viewing transport lists and death books as well as further documents of Kaufering, a subsidiary of the former Dachau concentration camp....

Early in November, Mr Djordje Drndarski, vice director of the International Tracing Service (ITS), held talks in Kazakhstan with representatives of governmental institutions and archives. Aimed at raising the awareness of the ITS services and archival holdings, Mr Drndarski’s trip had been prepared and actively...

Between 8 and 10 November 2012 educators who had passed an advanced training course at the Israeli Remembrance Authority Yad Vashem convened a graduate seminar at the International Tracing Service (ITS). It was the second joint seminar and the cooperation with Yad Vashem shall continue in 2013. Eight educators from...

19 senior pupils of “Christian-Rauch” secondary school in Bad Arolsen have spent a project week at the International Tracing Service (ITS) dedicating their learning time and energy to the subject of “Children’s Lives during and under National Socialism. Between ‘Lebensborn’, Germanization, Deportation or Annihilation“....

Survivor Eugene Black and his daughter Lilian to seek out his records, a close collaboration has developed between the Holocaust Survivors’ Friendship Association (HSFA). As a result of a visit carried out some years ago by Holocaust in Leeds and the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen, Germany. “Thanks...

Dr. Beate Welter, director of the Memorial SS-Sonderlager/KZ Hinzert, came to Bad Arolsen in late October 2012 to discuss a project about the so-called "Eindeutschungs-Polen" (Germanization of Polish labourers) that the memorial is carrying out in cooperation with the International Tracing Service (ITS)....

In a touching manner, Inge Geiler read to some 50 listeners at the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen from her book "A shadow of our days - The history of the Family Grünbaum." During renovation work in her home, the author had found a bundle of papers in a wall panel behind the radiator of...

The recent book published by University of Rome professors Umberto Gentiloni und Stefano Palermo, “16 October 1943. Li hanno portati via”, details the deportation of Jewish children from Rome and was introduced at a memorial service commemorating the 69th anniversary of the beginning of the deportations of Rome´s Jews.

24 archivists from Thuringia’s Main State Archives took advantage of a one-day excursion to Bad Arolsen to obtain information on the documentation kept at the archives of the International Tracing Service (ITS). They were interested in the records’ preservation, digitisation and description as well as in their use for...

Mirja Keller of the University of Frankfurt/Main brought two themes to the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen for research: Jewish self-help and the fate of the prisoners from the former police prison Klapperfeld in Frankfurt/Main, during the Nazi era. “Thanks to the digitization, the archives of the...