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When the Gestapo arrested Helga Thörl, then a young woman from Hamburg, in April 1945 they stripped her of all her personal belongings, among them a wristwatch. In November 2015 the ITS was able to return this wristwatch to the now 91-year-old. For the first time in many years the ITS could personally return a stolen...

It’s April in Northern Germany, the spring air is cool, and the countryside has me mesmerised. I’m approaching the tail end of my 2015 European visit, a very important and emotional chapter of my journey.

In early November 2015 the International Tracing Service (ITS) sent out an updated version of its digitized archives to its seven partner institutions. With these copies of the documents from the ITS archives, the so-called “copyholders” of the ITS digital archive will have access to more of the unique documents of the...

On 18 August 1944, 21-year-old Rudy de Wijs was arrested in the Dutch city of Arnheim and deported to Neuengamme Concentration Camp, where he died only a few months later as a result of the inhuman conditions there. Among the personal belongings the young man was carrying with him when he was arrested was his notebook....

POLIN Museum’s Global Educational Outreach Program, supported by the William K. Bowes Jr Foundation and the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture, is offering up to six doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships for from three to five consecutive months in residence at POLIN Museum and the Jewish Historical...

EHRI started its second phase in May 2015. In this new phase EHRI will sustain and expand its current work. More Holocaust institutions will be invited to participate and connect their collections in the EHRI portal, and new research tools will be implemented. These goals can only be reached in close cooperation with...

International Workshop: 30 May – 1 June 2016 / Max Mannheimer Studienzentrum (MMSZ), Dachau

EHRI (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure) invites applications for its fellowship programme (2016-2018).

Improved accessibility to the digital copies in the ITS Archives is the focus of a series of workshops to be held regularly until 2018 and presented together by the International Tracing Service (ITS), The Wiener Library, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). The opening event took place early...

From July 6 to 9, 2015 Yad Vashem held its 8th Summer Workshop at the International Institute for Holocaust Research. At the center of the 4-dayworkshop were research papers on “non Jewish Jews”, meaning those that did not, or only to a certain degree, consider themselves to be Jewish, but had been declared as Jewish...