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Who were the first visitors and how did the ITS organize the change? Nicole Dominicus is now head of the archival management department. At the opening of the archives in 2007, she was responsible for enquiries and visitor support. She relates about the time after the opening and how difficult historical research was...

In March 1998, René Manu contacted the International Tracing Service (ITS) requesting access to the documents on his father's persecution. Daniel Manu and his family had been deported from Thessaloniki to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp by the National Socialists – he was the only family member...

Aharon Leshno-Yaar was chairman of the International Commission, the ITS's supreme governing body, in 2004 and 2014. He accompanied the International Tracing Service (ITS) during the exciting phase of archive opening. As of 2016, Aharon Leshno-Yaar has been Ambassador of Israel to the European Union and NATO.

On November 28th 2007, the International Tracing Service (ITS) finally reopened its archive to researchers and visitors which had been closed to the general public for almost 25 years. The opening was the result of international protests coming from academia, politics and those persecuted by the Nazis who demanded...

Today, the International Tracing Service (ITS) published around 15,000 further documents from the "Death Marches" collection in its online archive. Cemetery plans as well as maps of and references to burial places have been added.

“My father Hendrik didn‘t start talking about his imprisonment in Germany until after he retired. From that point on, he talked about it a lot.” When Aart Quak visited the International Tracing Service (ITS) with his son Dick in November 2017, he had various documents and photos with him.

Following a raid in the summer of 1944, the German security police deported Pierre Joseph Marie Louis Margerit first to the Compiègne prison and then to the Neuengamme concentration camp. There the notary was assigned to forced labor in the construction of submarine pens. He died in the Sandbostel camp in 1945, shortly...

It took Marcelle Boulhol completely by surprise when a member of the International Tracing Service (ITS) staff contacted her and told her about the personal belongings of her uncle in the archive. Until then, she had known next to nothing about his fate. She received the package with Antoine Brun’s watch and pen in...

“We hope that by the end of this workshop, we might develop another joint digital humanities project that will use the latest research methodologies to make the historical information in the ITS digital archive available to more people.” Christine Schmidt, Deputy Director and Head of Research at the Wiener Library,...

In the beginning there was a charm with a birth date found by archaeologist Yoram Haimi and his Polish colleagues in 2006 in the grounds of the former Sobibor extermination camp. Yad Vashem announced the discovery, leading several historians and TAZ journalist Klaus Hillenbrand to carry out research and discover to...