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The touring exhibition “Looking for Traces – The Death Marches as Reflected in the Documents of the International Tracing Service (ITS)” will be shown at Konrad-Zuse Museum in Hünfeld until late April. It provides its visitors with an insight into the ITS documents on the subject and introduces individual fates as well...

16 wives of mayors of towns located in the Waldeck Frankenberg district visited the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen yesterday. “Whenever we come together once a year, we meet in another place to come to know by and by all other places and communities”, said the Arolsen mayor’s wife Sabine van der...

In cooperation with the Red Line pilot project and IKARus, the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen held a two-day training program in mid-March on “Language and Viewpoints – How Homophobic Views Are Developed and Abandoned.” With a total of 16 participants, the aim of the training was to create an...

Archivist Monique Leblois-Péchon from the French National Archives has paid a two-day visit to the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen studying the digital database and research methods for individual fates and topics. The French National Archives  that had received a copy...

40 representatives of around 35 Hessian Memorials and commemorative initiatives have joined for a one-day meeting in Bad Arolsen in the beginning of March. Invited for the conference by the Hesse Centre for Civic Education (Hessische Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung / HLZ), they had a chance to inform themselves...

  Robert Kain came to the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen late in February 2013 to do research for his dissertation “Otto Weidt. Developing from an anarchist into a ‘Righteous among the Nations’. 1883-1947”. Otto Weidt had tried to protect his Jewish staff from deportation during the era of...

Their aim to lay ‘stumbling stones’ victims of the Nazi persecution in Teltow has led the two historians, Gabriele Bergner and Jens Leder, to the International Tracing Service (ITS) this week. For the members of an initiative from the German town Teltow this was the second visit to Arolsen. "On our previous trip...

  Late in January 2013, Lilo and Bernhard Keßler came to research in the archives of the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen about prisoners who had perished in Concentration Camp Engerhofe. The sub-commando had had a mere three-month existence. “Our intention is to give back to the victims their...

"I will bring you home," said Miriam Rosenthal daily to the baby growing inside her womb. A pregnancy in a concentration camp for Jewish prisoners usually meant a death sentence. But seven women, in the midst of the destruction of life, brought seven children into the world. This unusual story in the book...

On the occasion of a meeting in Berlin of the eleven-nation International Commission, which defines the guidelines for the activities of the International Tracing Service (ITS), Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and the Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann have paid tribute to the work of the ITS. “The...