Tracing and Documenting Nazi Victims Past and Present

Henning Borggräfe, Director Research ITS; Christian Höschler, 2nd Director Research ITS; Isabel Panek, ITS.

Tracing and Documenting Nazi Victims Past and Present - Table of Contents

Floriane Azoulay

Preface

Henning Borggräfe, Christian Höschler, and Isabel Panek

Tracing and Documenting Nazi Victims Past and Present - Introduction

Dan Stone

On the Uses and Disadvantages of ITS for History

From Early Tracing Activities to Information for Descendants

Christian Höschler and Isabel Panek

The (Early) Search for Missing Nazi Victims: Historical Precedents, Organizational Frameworks, and Methods

Linda G. Levi

Family Searching and Tracing Services of JDC in the World War II Era

Christine Schmidt

Those Left Behind: Early Search Efforts in Wartime and Postwar Britain

Maren Hachmeister

Tracing Services in Poland and Czechoslovakia after 1945: Between Humanitarian Principles and Socialist Ideology

René Bienert

Help for Survivors - Help from Survivors: Simon Wiesenthal and the Early Years of the Search for Nazi Criminals in Linz

Silke von der Emde

Caring for the Dead and the Living: DPs and the Arolsen Archives of Feelings

Zvi Bernhardt

Yad Vashem and Holocaust Victim's Search for Family

Diane Afoumado

ITS Research at the Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum for Descendants of Holocaust Victims and Survivors

Ramona Bräu, Kerstin Hofmann, and Anna Meier-Osinski

The New Tasks and Challenges for Tracing

Collections and Activities of Archives Dealing with Nazi Victims

Henning Borggräfe and Isabel Panek

The Arolsen Archives as an Example for the Emergence of Collections Archives after 1945

Rebecca Boehling

From Tracing and Fate Clarification to Research Center: The Role of International Players and Transnationalism in Shaping the Identity of the ITS

Kerstin Hofmann

"It is our job to find out who did what." The Central Office in Ludwigsburg and Cooperation with the ITS

Tobias Herrmann

The Federal Archives and its Role in German Politics of Remembrance

Carola Lau

Institutes of National Remembrance and their Role in the Analysis of National Socialism -

An Examination of the Issues, Debates and Public Perceptions

Puck Huitsing and Edwin Klijn

Linking and Enriching Archival Collections in the Digital Age: The Dutch War Collections Network

List of Contributors