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Tracing and Documenting Nazi Victims Past and Present

Henning Borggräfe, Christian Höschler, Isabel Panek (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

VIII, 342 Seiten

2020
De Gruyter Oldenbourg (Verlag)
978-3-11-066160-6 (ISBN)

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After World War II, tracing and documenting Nazi victims emerged against the background of millions of missing persons and early compensation proceedings. This was a process in which the Allies, international aid organizations, and survivors themselves took part. New archives, documentation centers and tracing bureaus were founded amid the increasing Cold War divide. They gathered documents on Nazi persecution and structured them in specialized collections to provide information on individual fates and their grave repercussions: the loss of relatives, the search for a new home, physical or mental injuries, existential problems, social support and recognition, but also continued exclusion or discrimination. By doing so, institutions involved in this work were inevitably confronted with contentious issues—such as varying political mandates, neutrality vs. solidarity with those formerly persecuted, data protection vs. public interest, and many more. Over time, tracing bureaus and archives changed methods and policies and even expanded their activities, using historical documents for both research and public remembrance. This is the first publication to explore this multifaceted history of tracing and documenting 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

Erscheinungsdatum	09.06.2020
Reihe/Serie	Arolsen Research Series ; 1
Mitarbeit	Sonstige Mitarbeit: Arolsen Archives
Verlagsort	Basel/Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	533 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Schlagworte	Holocaust • International Tracing Service • National Socialism • national sozialism • Nationalsozialismus • Persecution • Verfolgung
ISBN-10	3-11-066160-8 / 3110661608
ISBN-13	978-3-11-066160-6 / 9783110661606
Zustand	Neuware