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Calendar Upcoming Events Details 2009-11-04 Documenting the Fate of Victims:
Calendar Upcoming Events Details 2009-11-04 Documenting the Fate of Victims:
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The release of the ITS files has open a vast resource for researchers of their family’s Holocaust era history. This presentation will explore how best to gain access to the secrets, long-hidden in millions of reference files in the ITS archives. In addition it will explore what the ITS is, the nature of its holdings, and look at related Holocaust resources. The ITS defines its mission as “The ITS serves the victims of Nazi persecution and their families by maintaining an archive that documents the fate of the victims. Millions of records compiled in one central archive bear witness to the horrors of World War II and, as a whole, form a meaningful memorial for generations to come. The ITS stores the historical records and makes them available to the public for research purposes.“ The site of four building crammed with documentation on our families is overwhelming. This archive has millions of records and documents both of victims of the Holocaust and survivors. The files have concentration camp lists, deportation lists, ship manifests of survivors, war time history of the persecuted. I even found birth information which was not known to the person. During my May 2008 visit, as part of the first group of genealogist to visit the archives, I succeeded in bringing back documentation on a number of people including my wife. I unearthed information for clients which enabled them to know of the past and in some cases identifying unknown family members and unknown personal information. |
