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Gershon Willinger was born in Amsterdam on 24 September 1942. His parents had fled Germany. But after the occupation of the Netherlands by Nazi Germany, the persecution of the Jews also started there. Guido and Edith Helene Willinger were among the more than 100,000 Jews deported from the occupied Netherlands to the...

An important package is presently on its way to Poland. It contains a wristwatch and a necklace with a crucifix pendant—two items once belonging to Bolesław Hermanowicz.

Members of Historical, Educational and Remembrance Initiatives are invited to apply for a three-day research seminar by May 1, 2018. The seminar will take place at the ITS in Bad Arolsen, June 25 – 27, 2018. It is hosted by the ITS and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the...

A wallet containing photos, an armband and an inmate’s tag with the number 38870 from the Royallieu internment and transit camp near Compiègne: those are the personal belongings her father Victor had to relinquish when the Nazis deported him in 1944.

Werner Hansch is a legend among sports commentators and known as the “voice of the Ruhr Valley.” He has a special connection to the International Tracing Service (ITS). In 2014, he learned by chance that the ITS archive might have information about his father’s persecution in its holdings.

In the autumn of 1948, search bureaus of various European states accepted an invitation from the recently established International Tracing Service (ITS) and came together, for the first time, in Arolsen, North Hesse, Germany. On the occasion of the anniversary of this event, the ITS will host an international academic...

The library catalog of the International Tracing Service (ITS) is now available in a new online version. Researchers and visitors can get information in advance about the library's holdings and better prepare their research stays at the ITS. The catalogue was so far only available on site.

Annelies Sijtsma-Hoezen is one of the volunteers helping the ITS in the search for the rightful owners of personal belongings of concentration camp inmates. She started researching right after the ITS published the photos and names on its online archive in 2015. She’s meanwhile found about thirty families.

“My late father cherished the hope that my mother and I would keep his brother’s memory alive,” Nathalie Devroey told us when she came to the International Tracing Service (ITS) in early 2018 to look at original documents pertaining to her uncle Charles Devroey’s fate. She had brought an extensive and very impressive...

Thomas Porena, who is earning a doctorate in Southeast European History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, conducted research at the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen for a project on double deportees. In this interview he talks about the difficulties of the research and the important finds in the ITS...