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International Tracing Service (ITS) „Technology meets Scholarship.“
Marburg, 19-21 January 2016
Dr. Christian Groh
Centre of documentation and
research about Nationalsocialist
persecution
More than 30 million documents
2013 introduction into the UNESCO-
„Memory of the World.“
Basically information for the persons
persecuted and their families
Since 2007 open to research
Part of the memorial culture
Foto: ITS
ITS-Porträt
Foto: ITS
ITS-Porträt
Not a „typical“ archive taking over documents from a specific institution
Rather a very large collection
Archival functions rather late (2007)
Effects on:
structure of the holdings preservation cataloguing
High percentage of digitized material
Relatively many metadata via indexing on document level
On the way from a tracing service to an archive
Holdings structured by content-related criteria:
incarceration
Forced labour
Displaced Persons
Some holdings based on provenance
predecessors
collections
correspondence
Finding tools, like card files
ITS-Porträt
Schreibstubenkarte Gromow, Valentin, Dachau, 1.1.6.7./ 10653732/ ITS Digital Archive, Bad Arolsen
Bestand 1.1.6.7. (Schreibstubenkarten Dachau)
Most cards from the US military
administration
Additional documentation from the
Dachau memorial
187.000 documents
All digitized
Every 25th card indexed
importance:
Hardly any original documentation
from Concentration Camps
Evidence of individuals incarderated
In some cases further biographical
information and
Information about further persecution
Bestand 1.1.6.7. (Schreibstubenkarten Dachau)
Bestand 1.1.6.7. (Schreibstubenkarten Dachau)
Bestand 1.1.6.7. (Schreibstubenkarten Dachau)
Bestand 1.1.6.7. (Schreibstubenkarten Dachau)
CM1-Umschlag, Rasinac, Ranko, 3.2.1.1./79642167/ ITS Digital Archive, Bad Arolsen
3.2.1.1. (CM1-Akten, Deutschland)
Application of Displaced
Persons to IRO for assistance
in emigration
Taken over from IRO in 1952
and 1975
912.807 documents
All digitized and indexed
CM1-Akte, Rasinac, Ranko, 3.2.1.1./79642167/ ITS Digital Archive, Bad Arolsen
3.2.1.1. (CM1-Akten, Deutschland)
CM1-Akte, Rasinac, Ranko, 3.2.1.1./79642167/ ITS Digital Archive, Bad Arolsen
3.2.1.1. (CM1-Akten, Deutschland)
