- Summary
- Dan Stone tells the story of the last great unknown archive of Nazism, the International Tracing Service, set up to find missing persons at the end of World War II. Spanning across death marches, slave labour, and liberation, Fate Unknown uncovers the history of this remarkable archive which holds over 30 million documents.
- Format
- Online resource
- Author/Creator
- Stone, Dan, author.
- Published
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2023]
- Locale
- Germany
- Contents
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Intro
Title page
Copyright page
Acknowledgements
Preface
Contents
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Tracing the Holocaust
What Is the ITS?
1. Tracing the Tracers: The History and Politics of Tracing
Prologue
Tracing
Excluding the Red Cross
Running ITS
HICOG Period
ICRC Period
Opening ITS
Conclusion
Epilogue
2. Discoveries: Tracing Stories
Prologue
Introduction
Polish Jew: Early Reports of the Death Camps
Otto Wolken: A Doctor in Auschwitz
Natalia Skibińska and a Mother's Wounded Heart
E715: British POWs Witness Nazi Atrocities
Epilogue
3. Slaves for the Reich: The Nazi Sub-camp Systems of Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen
Prologue
Introduction
The Development of the Sub-camps at Gross-Rosen and Auschwitz
Administering the Gross-Rosen Sub-camps
The Gross-Rosen Sub-camps: The Victims' Perspective
The Organization of the Auschwitz Sub-camps
Evacuation of the Auschwitz Sub-camps
Conclusion
Epilogue
4. Columns of Misery: Death Marches and Liberation
Prologue
Death Marches
Liberation
Conclusion
Epilogue
5. The Legion of the Lost
Prologue
'Graves Recheck'
Identification of the Unknown Dead
Epilogue
6. Survivors, Displaced Persons, Refugees: The Searchers and the Sought For
Prologue
Introduction
Searching
Medical Care
Resettlement
Epilogue
7. Tracing Survival
Prologue
Introduction
Elderly Survivors
The Auschwitz Sonderkommando
The Iron Guard in Nazi Captivity: Tracing the Survival of Romanian Fascists
Epilogue
8. Europe's Missing Children
Prologue
The Child Search Branch
10,000 Children
Epilogue
Conclusion: The ITS and Holocaust Memory
Bibliography
- Notes
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Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Tracing the Holocaust -- What Is the ITS? -- 1. Tracing the Tracers: The History and Politics of Tracing -- Prologue -- Tracing -- Excluding the Red Cross -- Running ITS -- HICOG Period -- ICRC Period -- Opening ITS -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- 2. Discoveries: Tracing Stories -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Polish Jew: Early Reports of the Death Camps -- Otto Wolken: A Doctor in Auschwitz -- Natalia Skibińska and a Mother's Wounded Heart
E715: British POWs Witness Nazi Atrocities -- Epilogue -- 3. Slaves for the Reich: The Nazi Sub-camp Systems of Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen -- Prologue -- Introduction -- The Development of the Sub-camps at Gross-Rosen and Auschwitz -- Administering the Gross-Rosen Sub-camps -- The Gross-Rosen Sub-camps: The Victims' Perspective -- The Organization of the Auschwitz Sub-camps -- Evacuation of the Auschwitz Sub-camps -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- 4. Columns of Misery: Death Marches and Liberation -- Prologue -- Death Marches -- Liberation -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- 5. The Legion of the Lost
Prologue -- 'Graves Recheck' -- Identification of the Unknown Dead -- Epilogue -- 6. Survivors, Displaced Persons, Refugees: The Searchers and the Sought For -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Searching -- Medical Care -- Resettlement -- Epilogue -- 7. Tracing Survival -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Elderly Survivors -- The Auschwitz Sonderkommando -- The Iron Guard in Nazi Captivity: Tracing the Survival of Romanian Fascists -- Epilogue -- 8. Europe's Missing Children -- Prologue -- The Child Search Branch -- 10,000 Children -- Epilogue -- Conclusion: The ITS and Holocaust Memory -- Bibliography
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