A row of boxed files in the International Tracing Service's Incarceration Camp Documents Unit containing 11 binders of the files of Roma at Auschwitz.
Overview
- Caption
- A row of boxed files in the International Tracing Service's Incarceration Camp Documents Unit containing 11 binders of the files of Roma at Auschwitz.
- Photographer
- Richard Ehrlich
- Date
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2007 - 2008
- Locale
- Bad Arolsen, [Hessen] Germany
- Variant Locale
- Bad Arolsen
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Richard Ehrlich
- Event History
- In order to help reunite families during World War II, Allied powers established the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen, Germany. Sixteen linear miles of shelving contain pages of documentation captured during the liberation of concentration camps in addition to newly added records, making up the largest Holocaust archive in the world. The documents contain information on 17.5 million victims of Nazism-people arrested, deported, killed, put to forced labor and slave labor, or displaced from their homes and unable to return at the end of the war. The United States is one of eleven nations of the International Commission receiving a single copy of the archive. The USHMM has been chosen to digitally receive and house the collection due to the historical, archival, and technological expertise the Museum already provides to survivors, families, and scholars. The collection is being transferred in a series of installments starting from January 2008 and is expected to be completed in 2010. The Museums Survivors Registry, with staff trained at the ITS in Bad Arolsen, provides assistance to survivor inquires.
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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Richard Ehrlich
Copyright: Agency Agreement
Keywords & Subjects
- Record last modified:
- 2021-03-11 00:00:00
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