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would finally tell them off once and for all "Hello?" She didn't immediately understand what it was about: A stranger began talking to her about her father arrested at 32 by the Germans in the spring of 1944 in his native village of Camou-Cihigue The 80-year-old woman didn't hang up: "I felt it was serious." The stranger introduced himself as Georges Sougné a volunteer "detective" for the Arolsen Archives the international documentation center on Nazi persecutions he indeed had important information to share with her You have 86.82% of this article left to read Lecture du Monde en cours sur un autre appareil Vous pouvez lire Le Monde sur un seul appareil à la fois Ce message s’affichera sur l’autre appareil Parce qu’une autre personne (ou vous) est en train de lire Le Monde avec ce compte sur un autre appareil Vous ne pouvez lire Le Monde que sur un seul appareil à la fois (ordinateur En cliquant sur « Continuer à lire ici » et en vous assurant que vous êtes la seule personne à consulter Le Monde avec ce compte Que se passera-t-il si vous continuez à lire ici Ce dernier restera connecté avec ce compte Vous pouvez vous connecter avec votre compte sur autant d’appareils que vous le souhaitez mais en les utilisant à des moments différents Nous vous conseillons de modifier votre mot de passe Votre abonnement n’autorise pas la lecture de cet article merci de contacter notre service commercial Your web browser is not fully supported by Sharjah24 and sharjah24.ae You can get the new Chrome at Download Chrome Von: Elmar Schulten Er genosse stets hohe Ansehen in Nordhessen wie auch in Wiesbaden.","url":"https://www.hna.de/lokales/frankenberg/bad-arolsen-ort55389/das-waldecker-land-trauert-um-wittekind-fuerst-zu-waldeck-und-pyrmont-93471001.html"};c&&a.navigator.canShare(d)&&(c.style.display="",c.addEventListener("click",b=>{b.preventDefault(),a.setTimeout(function(){a.navigator.share(d)},0)}))}})(window,document); Wittekind Fürst zu Waldeck und Pyrmont ist im Alter von 88 Jahren gestorben Fürst Wittekind genoss hohes Ansehen im Waldecker Land und in der hessischen Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden Die Flagge des Fürstlichen Hauses weht auf Halbmast über dem Mittelrisalit des Residenzschlosses als äußeres Zeichen der Trauer der Fürstenfamilie Geboren wurde Wittekind Fürst zu Waldeck und Pyrmont 1936 im so genannten neuen Schloss Der einzige Sohn von von Erbprinz Josias zu Waldeck und Pyrmont und Altburg Herzogin von Oldenburg ist als Erbprinz des Doppelfürstentums Waldeck und Pyrmont erzogen worden obwohl dies mit der vom Kasseler Arbeiter- und Soldatenrat erzwungen Abdankung von Fürst Friedrich längst abgeschafft war 1956 legte Fürst Wittekind seine Abitur-Prüfung an der Christian-Rauch-Schule ab Das Studium der Betriebswirtschaft schloss er mit einer Diplomarbeit über ein forstwirtschaftliches Thema Schließlich war dem jungen Mann schon in die Wiege gelegt dass er einmal einen großen Waldbesitz verwalten würde dass Fürst Wittekind als passionierter Jäger auch der Waldeckischen Jägerschaft angehörte Vielseitig sportlich begabt brachte er es als Jugendlicher bereits vor dem Abitur zur hessischen Meisterschaft im Springreiten Als Pistolen- und Tontaubenschütze sammelte er zahlreiche sportliche Trophäen und Meistertitel Viele Jahre war er eine wertvolle sportliche Stütze im Bad Arolser Tennisteam Beliebtes und geschätztes Mitglied war der Sportwagen- und Motorradfan auch im hohen Alter im Bad Arolser Reit- und Fahrverein im Waldeckischen Wurftaubenclub und bei der DLRG Außerdem war er Schutzherr der historischen Schützengemeinschaft Waldecks Fürst Wittekind zu Waldeck und Pyrmont ist mit 88 Jahren verstorben © Elmar Schulten Die Erinnerung an die große Fürstenhochzeit im Jahr 1988 lässt ältere Arolser auch Jahrzehnte später immer noch in Verzückung geraten: Es war ein prächtiges Fest im Schloss und viele hundert Zuschauer verfolgten den Weg der offenen Kutsche mit dem Brautpaar von der Stadtkirche zum Residenzschloss Dieser Inhalt"+t(a)+"kann aufgrund Ihrer Datenschutz-Einstellungen nicht geladen werden BERLIN (AP) — The International Tracing Service in Germany has uploaded more than 13 million documents from Nazi concentration camps including prisoner cards and death notices to help Holocaust researchers and others investigate the fate of victims Established by the Western Allies in the final days of World War II and initially run by the Red Cross the ITS also announced Tuesday it was changing its name to "Arolsen Archives - International Center on Nazi Persecution." The archive in Bad Arolsen says with help from Israel's Yad Vashem documents with information on more than 2.2 million people are now available online Work is still being done to improve searchability Archive director Floriane Azoulay says with survivors dying out "it is so important that the original documents can speak to coming generations." The International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen was set up after the war to trace millions of deported and displaced persons records of deaths from several concentration camps and records of individual and mass graves – served to inform victims’ families and to substantiate compensation and pension claims The archives have only recently been opened up to researchers stirring up considerable interest in the international research community Bad Arolsen is a small town in the north of the state of Hesse but visitors here are likely to feel lost in the depths of the German heartland Bad Arolsen has been world-renowned for several decades now though not for its local history or leafy environs: this is the location of the International Tracing Service (ITS) under the aegis of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) The ITS is at once a crucial tracing center a memorial to the victims of Nazi persecution This institution was established in 1948 to finish the job of tracking down missing persons and reuniting families after the war bearing witness to the perpetual quest for remembrance but also to the German postwar reparation procedures The ITS is currently at a turning-point in its already long history, ever since it opened its archives for the very first time in June 2008 to a team of historians who came to assess its 27 shelf kilometers of original documents from the Nazi period [1] The last major archives of Nazi persecution were finally opened up to research after many years of tensions and even political and diplomatic crisis some of which was relayed by the international media What is the history of this discreet and yet world-renowned institution reflecting the difficulties facing the Allies after their victory: difficulties in handling Germany the Cold War and memories of National Socialism Nazi Germany policy not only caused the death of millions of people but also the displacement of millions of others throughout Europe At the time of the Allied victory in Europe millions of foreign nationals found themselves on German soil There were of course the demobilized soldiers and ethnic German refugees from Eastern Europe who were fleeing the advance of the Red Army as well as collaborators with the Nazi regime who had fled from the American or Soviet troops and followed the victors of yesteryear in their retreat there were hundreds of thousands of deportees hostages and victims of racial persecution – at least those who were still alive And there were also 8 million forced laborers who had been brought to Germany to take part in the war effort of the Third Reich The Allies knew precious little about the fate of all these people The horrors of the concentration and death camps were not revealed to the world until early in 1945 the various Allied states set up tracing bureaus to compile lists of those who had gone missing and were sought by their families which was part of the Ministry of Prisoners was directed by Henri Fresnay and located in Paris at 63 avenue Foch on premises occupied just a little while before by the Gestapo These national tracing bureaus went on to establish branch offices in each of the occupied zones of Germany dozens of other bureaus were created by various aid organizations including the national chapters of the Red Cross and American Jewish organizations like the American Joint Distribution Committee many of which had limited resources at their disposal wrote frantically back and forth to one another exchanging information is all the more crucial because they compiled the first information about and the first eye-witness accounts of Nazi cruelty the camps and the annihilation of European Jewry It was in this context that the International Tracing Service was established The story of its emergence is as yet still unclear: the first plans to create such a service were drawn up in the Relief Department (an emergency rescue service) of the British Foreign Office in the building of the Hoechst AG chemicals company a service for displaced persons and refugees was set up within the Allied High Commission for Germany in Berlin tasked with coordinating search efforts between the four occupying powers as the Soviet Union still agreed to work more or less together at the time In late 1945 a new service emerged: the Child Tracing Service International opinion was stirred by revelations of the Lebensborn program Lebensborn encouraged young German women to procreate and donate their infants to the Führer The babies were placed in Nazi re-education camps and then adopted by “racially pure” German (especially SS) families But the main thrust of the operation consisted in kidnapping from Polish and other Slavic parents children whose “racial characteristics” corresponded to the putative traits of the “Aryan” race So the Child Tracing Service undertook to question and run checks on some 200,000 small children and adolescents whose background was suspicious and who had been placed in orphanages or a committee was also set up within the service for displaced persons and refugees to make plans for the creation of a Central Tracing Service The small town of Arolsen (as it was called till 1997) was chosen because it was still intact and had some large vacant buildings: an SS barracks a “new castle” dating from the 19th century Arolsen also had the advantage of being situated in the American zone of occupation and yet not far from the other three zones The Central Tracing Service in Arolsen was placed for a time under the aegis of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and the International Refugee Organization (IRO) The ITS was officially established on January 1 The service returned to Allied control in April 1951 The 1948 mandate was provisional: the ITS was to finish the job it had begun in early 1945 The institution was set up at that time on a provisional basis just as the situation of displaced persons was beginning to be settled with the creation of the State of Israel in May 1948 and the revision of US immigration policy in the summer of that year the Soviet Union had withdrawn from the administration of the organization a sign that the Cold War was setting in there as well The predecessors of the ITS had begun to understand the scale of the European catastrophe of the massacres and displacements of whole populations and undertook to concentrate all the archives that might be useful for tracing purposes Those documents – and this is crucial to understanding the very intense disputes over the institution at the time – include personal files transport lists and registers of deaths from several (but not all) concentration camps had ordered the mayors of every German municipality to conduct a census of all foreigners in the country from Allied states The lists were passed on to the Central Tracing Service a census was taken of the individual and mass graves of all foreigners who had died on German soil for which it was necessary to retrace the transports from one camp to another and the itineraries of what would later be known as the “death marches” the evacuation of the camps towards the interior of the Reich The grave counts were also supplied to the service that would subsequently become the International Tracing Service the tracing of murdered and surviving Jews was part of the broader task of tracing all non-German victims of forced displacement particularly forced laborers and displaced persons the Red Cross in Munich set up a service to trace German refugees and expellees from Eastern Europe Israeli citizens (but not other non-German victims) were also entitled to assert claims under this law claimants had to produce proof of internment having preserved so many documents from the concentration camps The range of inquiries addressed to the ITS subsequently became more varied as a result Having gone through the transport lists and the files from the camps the ITS compiled an enormous Central Name Index of missing persons As the range of potential beneficiaries of German reparations had broadened since 1956 requests for information and certificates continued to pour in it was the victims of the Nazis’ pseudo-scientific medical experiments who were awarded compensation and Arolsen complied with the requests by furnishing certificates Researchers began taking an interest in the ITS documents from the mid-1950s The Comité d’Histoire de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale (Committee on World War II History) in Paris which published a first multi-volume “Dictionary of Nazi Camps and Places of Internment” which was subsequently updated several times This dictionary long remained the standard reference work on the subject It was used to draw up an index of libraries containing material on Nazi deportation and persecution the Israeli authority for the commemoration of the Holocaust and the Resistance requested and obtained microfilm copies of documents from Arolsen (though we do not know exactly what was copied and whether that included all the documents collected up to that point) The ITS had done a considerable amount of work by that time 70% thereof in application of the BeG law to indemnify victims of National Socialism to a 1974 peak of 210,465 registered inquiries (over half of which were for the writing of personal memoirs or for printed lists of names of Jewish victims in a given municipality or region) the ITS began replying to inquiries concerning historical research of which there were 205 in that year and as many as 5,325 by 1976 engaged in ample correspondence and received visitors who would return to their countries raving about the renowned and ever-growing Central Name Index probably owing to the personality of the new director and the number of inquiries diminished significantly under his management the highly controversial Charles-Claude Biedermann access to ITS files became increasingly restricted Visitors were now only allowed to see the famed Index and some of the buildings were off limits without the director’s express authorization Arolsen’s services were requested and the ITS received a record number of files which it processed in a simplified manner by verifying its own records of forced laborers the ITS processed over a million inquiries regarding force labor simply checking to see whether the claimant’s name turned up in its Central Name Index the Tracing Service came to be mentioned more and more frequently at major conferences on the Holocaust in the late 1990s The closing declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on Holocaust Education held in the year 2000 and attended by over 30 heads of state and government called for a commitment to further open up persecution-related archives that were still inaccessible to researchers This was clearly an allusion to the situation in Arolsen But Charles-Claude Biedermann held his ground it is difficult to determine exactly why it was impossible to influence this closed-door policy despite all the protest it incurred Rumors were legion at the time: it was alleged that Western secret services had always had access to the archives and didn’t want it to transpire that there was information there about war criminals; it was also rumored that the Germans were loth to pay more damages and that opening up the archives would invite a slew of new compensation claims These inaccessible and increasingly mysterious archives gave rise to all manner of conjecture: that they contained crucial hitherto unpublished documents about Hitler’s policies about the Western powers’ responsibility for the Holocaust The ICRC’s stance was baffling (and still is) France came out in favor of opening the archives and Italy against it… no longer seemed adapted to the present circumstances and no-one knew which authority was empowered to take the decision to open up the archives and perhaps to provide a supplementary reason for denying access the backlog of unprocessed inquiries kept piling up There were as many as 400,000 awaiting an answer whilst the German Ministry of the Interior was cutting back on labor costs and shedding staff the crisis blew up to such proportions that even the Red Cross in Geneva was compelled to react: Charles-Claude Biedermann was summarily sacked a Red Cross official experienced in crisis situations (having previously served in Bagdad during the Iran-Iraq War An agreement was reached at long last: the representatives of the 11 member states of the International Commission agreed to open up the archives An amendment to the 1955 agreement was drawn up and the opening of the archives finally took effect in the spring of 2008 Shortly after the draft agreement was signed on March 18 Paul Shapiro testified before the Foreign Affairs Committee (Subcommittee on Europe) of the US House of Representatives of opening the Bad Arolsen files up for researchers and reproducing them so they would be available to survivors only the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC was capable of performing this task while the last remaining survivors were disappearing one after another The collections are now in the process of being digitized using a procedure that will permit place-based searches (from 1948 on all the documents at Arolsen were filed by name of person to be traced) The first shipments of copies have already been made to Jerusalem and Washington and it was announced that the rest would follow in installments But the question remains: What are these 17 million documents What new information about the Holocaust and about persecution in general do they contain less than the usual period (30 or 40 years) for what are for the most part The status of the ITS remainsto be redefined A strategic committee was to convene in September 2008 for this purpose Shouldn’t these archives deserve to be listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site A quarter of the files apparently concern Jews The Central Name Index at Bad Arolsen uses a complicated method to enable seekers to get their bearings amid the daunting complexity of the spellings of family names from all over Europe all of which are transcribed in a single spelling in the Index in order to facilitate searches: “Svartz” explaining how first and last names are transcribed in the Index It takes at least four months to begin finding one’s way through the archives and to be able to actually carry out a search but in the meantime one cannot help wondering how it will be possible to do without the ITS’s experienced staff to find a file based solely on a person’s name In the section of the archives on displaced persons there are 35,000 envelopes containing information about specific individuals There are 4,436 boxes containing lists by country and 230 boxes containing lists of (mostly Jewish) people from postwar files 16,000 files from the International Committee for European Migration 10,650 from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as well as a wide variety of files from several hospitals and sanatoriums lists of displaced persons who emigrated overseas which are important sources for the history of postwar migrations as well as for family histories (though there are equivalent lists in the corresponding countries of arrival as well) And let us not forget the files of the UNHCR in Hong-Kong – though how they got there is anyone’s guess The section on forced labor brings together the lists of foreigners who found themselves in Germany at the end of the war in 1945 but the lists for the Soviet zone are far from complete marriage and death issued by the German authorities for forced laborers in addition to hospital records and plenty of other documents as well The section on the concentration camps contains original archives from the camps records of deaths (kept by the prisoners themselves) and transfer lists the amount of extant material varies widely from one camp to another Nearly all the archives from Buchenwald are preserved at Bad Arolsen whereas there is virtually nothing to be found here from a camp like Majdanek The bulk of the archives from Natzweiler-Struthof is kept in France at the Archives Départementales du Bas-Rhin (Departmental Archives of the Lower Rhine) and there are almost no original documents about Auschwitz at Bad Arolsen 75% of the documents at Bad Arolsen are originals have long been easily accessible in the form of copies held by the archives of the respective German Länder it should be recalled that most of the documents were reproduced and provided to Yad Vashem in 1956 it would be erroneous to reduce this collection of documents to Holocaust archives: they cover all sorts of victims of persecution – as well as persecutors since the displaced persons included a great many who collaborated with the Germans or with ethnic Germans and minority nationals from the Soviet empire who was tried and acquitted in Israel for crimes against humanity on which it is noted that he had indeed worked as a guard at Treblinka there are all the inquiries addressed to the ITS: 2.4 million chronologically arranged “tracing and document files” (or “TD files” for short) to which must be added 105,000 inquiries made prior to the creation of the ITS (in 1948) and a few hundred thousand inquiries that were answered in the negative and filed separately Half the inquiries are from private individuals the other half from institutions of all kinds requesting information about a deported ancestor or a certificate of internment or forced labor It is quite moving to see them all stacked up and painstakingly filed away for they are a silent testimony to the enormous amount of work the ITS has carried out since its commencement a humanitarian undertaking on a scale unequalled to this day They bear witness to the tragedy of World War II and Nazism as well as to the endless task of managing and funding the remembrance thereof and its abiding consequences humble queries stuck into a bottle and flung into the sea by survivors hoping to obtain a precious snippet of information about a family member they last saw getting off a deportation train or in some cases en route from one camp to another where they’d been incarcerated themselves having lost count and lost track of all the camps they went through These inquiries constitute in and of themselves important historical material on the consequences of the Nazi persecution and madness which it will be up to historians to explore The other millions of documents at Bad Arolsen are unlikely to open up new fields of investigation: Hitler’s order to exterminate European Jewry certainly won’t be found nor will Schindler’s list (contrary to what has been claimed in certain articles in the press) the Bad Arolsen files will help complete already existing research based on different archives and will prove a prime source for new research They will make it possible to pinpoint the geography of the persecution They will significantly facilitate prosopographical studies of a given camp There is still a great deal of work to be done before historians will have a complete and usable inventory and of course the history of the institution itself remains to be written [1] The first historical research workshop using ITS files was organized in collaboration with the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies one of the departments of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC anthropologists and archivists (including myself) worked together from June 16–27 I would like to take this opportunity to thank the ITS and the Holocaust Museum for inviting me to that workshop This article owes a great deal to the lively discussions I had with my colleagues [2] For a comprehensive look at the whole complex legislative edifice of German reparations Die Politik der Wiedergutmachung für NS-Verfolgte seit 1945 [3] The negotiations that led to the 1955 agreement were thorny indeed: the FRG demanded control over the ITS while the International Committee of the Red Cross brought all its influence to bear to ensure that the director would be Swiss [4] Internationales Komitee vom Roten Kreuz Die Tätigkeit des IKRK zugunsten der in den deutschen Konzentrationslagern inhaftierten Zivilpersonen (1939-1945) [5] In response to the accusation and all the questions they were asked and even though the archives remained closed to researchers the ICRC commissioned an in-depth report by Jean-Claude Favez who was given access to all the wartime documents which was severely critical of the Red Cross put an end to the controversy (Jean-Claude Favez les déportations et les camps de concentration nazis [6] Regarding the conclusion of this agreement Revue du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge [7] The nine countries were Belgium Greece and Poland joined the International Commission later on [8] Statistics provided by the ITS based on data published in its annual reports [9] In France agreements to this end were signed by and between the US Holocaust Museum in Washington DC the French Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah and the French Archives Nationales [10] In 2000 the Erinnerung By the cutoff date for the submission of compensation claims €4.4 billion had been distributed to 1.6 million former forced laborers [11] Roger Cohen “US-German Flare-Up Over Vast Nazi Cam Archives” Participants of 28th 'March of the Living' prepare for the start at the former Nazi concentration death camp Auschwitz | Photo: EPA The world's most comprehensive archive on the victims and survivors of Nazi persecution reached a "milestone" last week by publishing 26 million documents to its online database including new information on forced laborers and deported Jews Follow Israel Hayom on Facebook and Twitter The Arolsen Archives–International Centre on Nazi Persecution formerly known as the International Tracing Service has a collection of information on about 17.5 million people and belongs to UNESCO's Memory of the World initiative It was established by the Western Allies in 1944 and changed its names to Arolsen Archives in 2019 All 26 million of the Arolsen Archives' documents a collection that includes information on 21 million people who were displaced The new uploads included data on the deportations of Jews Roma and Sinti from the former German Empire said the recent addition to its online database was completed with its partner Israel's Holocaust memorial center in Jerusalem "This means that the majority of the documents in the world's most comprehensive archive on Nazi persecution are now accessible online," the archives said in a statement "They are a unique body of evidence that documents the crimes committed by the Nazis and they are of immeasurable value to the relatives of the victims of Nazi persecution." Reprinted with permission from JNS.org You think I'm gonna put up with this sh*t at my bar Newly revealed SS officer tape provides direct evidence of Hitler's explicit command for Jewish extermination A group called "Youth Demand" called on protesters to come to the site Analysis  Archaeology Blogpost Business & Finance Culture Exclusive Explainer Environment Features Health In Brief Jewish World Judea and Samaria Lifestyle Cyber & Internet Sports Diplomacy  Iran & The Gulf Gaza Strip Politics Shopping Terms of use Privacy Policy Submissions Contact Us The first issue of Israel Hayom appeared on July 30 Israel Hayom was founded on the belief that the Israeli public deserves better more balanced and more accurate journalism [contact-form-7 id=”508379″ html_id=”isrh_form_Newsletter_en” title=”newsletter_subscribe”] 2023Get email notification for articles from Sam Sokol FollowJul 19 2023Persistent abuse and bullying at Germany’s largest Holocaust archive has prompted multiple researchers to leave negatively impacting the institution’s work current and former employees of the archive allege This photo by Richard Ehrlich of the Nazi Archive is among those that will be on exhibit at UB photos of victims of the Holocaust found in Nazi Archive In addition to the massive atrocity of the Holocaust and the individual horrors that attended it most people have no idea of the extent of the weirdly obsessive record-keeping practices of the Nazis bureaucracy whose millions of mundane and detailed materials present excruciating and undeniable evidence of its terrible crimes documented by noted photographer Richard Ehrlich not only takes our understanding of the Holocaust to an entirely different but also explicitly and powerfully challenges Holocaust denial The UB Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts will present this evidence in the stunning exhibit “The Holocaust Archive Revealed: Bad Arolsen through the Lens of Richard Ehrlich,” on view April 21 through June 20 will be in the gallery’s second-floor exhibition space A public reception for Ehrlich will be held in the gallery The exhibition was made possible through support from UB alumnus Wayne S a member of the College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Advisory Council and president of Bergamot Station in Santa Monica Southern California's largest art gallery complex and cultural center The exhibition will be mounted in conjunction with a lecture that day, “The Holocaust and Art: Differing Approaches,” by artist Marty J. Kalb, Ohio Wesleyan University professor emeritus, whose “Holocaust Series” documents what he calls “the industrialization of murder by a modern government.” Click here to read a story about Kalb’s lecture explains that the subject of Ehrlich’s photographs is the International Tracing Service (ITS) archive in Bad Arolsen which encompasses more than 16 miles of records and artifacts housed in six buildings She says the archives themselves and Ehrlich’s photos taken shortly after the ITS opened to the public in 2007 reveal with excruciating exactitude the Nazi campaign to murder 17 million people and eradicate European Jewry and other “undesirable minorities.” the viewer encounters the chilling precision and obsessive mentality of the Nazi bureaucracy stacks of papers and ledgers—normally the mundane paraphernalia of record keeping—provide painful and irrefutable evidence of history’s most unimaginable crime The exhibition comprises 28 panels featuring photographs taken in the ITS accompanied by text detailing the varied contents of the archives which were collected from a number of sources prison camps and other agencies of Nazi authority Firmin points out that among the many individual documents depicted are the original “Schindler’s list,” a transport order to Bergen Belsen that includes the name of Anne Frank and an invitation from Gestapo chief Reinhard Heydrich to a brunch meeting to discuss “a total solution to the Jewish question in Europe.” “Ehrlich’s photographs give us entries in the Buchenwald prisoner logs and death books,” she says “They show us medical records that count lice removed from prisoners They permit us to absorb the sheer magnitude of countless record-lined shelves and to witness intimate details of people’s daily lives told through photographs and personal possessions.” The 50 million ITS documents have played an important role in historical research refugee services and in tracing the fates of countless individuals © document.write((new Date()).getFullYear()) University at Buffalo Yad Vashem CIO Michael Lieber (right) receives millions of pages of documentation from ITS IT System Administrator Michael Hoffman (left) last night at Yad Vashem Last night (Monday) the first transfer of material from the International Tracing Service archives at Bad Arolsen The transfer took place following a decision by the ITS International Commission to permit the transfer of material to archives in the member states to allow them to prepare the groundwork for making the material available to the public The embargo will be lifted only when all 11-member states have completed the ratification process comprising 1.4 terra bytes-were handed over by Michael Hoffmann The 12 million scanned documents received last night primarily include material describing concentration camp prisoners: personal records of various prisoners in the Nazi camps as well as lists prepared within the camps themselves the ITS archives contain information on some 17.5 million individuals Copies of some 20 million pages of documentation from Bad Arolsen have been contained in Yad Vashem’s Archives since the 1950’s Yad Vashem has amassed a great deal of experience and knowledge in digitizing archival information and making it user friendly,” said Avner Shalev which is organized in complicated and varying ways We expect it will take a lot of resources to sift through the material and catalogue it checking whether the material we have just received contains new documentation or whether it compliments the material Yad Vashem brought from Bad Arolsen in the 1950s.” Digital copies of more material from Bad Arolsen are expected to arrive at Yad Vashem towards the end of this year The Yad Vashem website had recently undergone a major upgrade The page you are looking for has apparently been moved We are therefore redirecting you to what we hope will be a useful landing page For any questions/clarifications/problems, please contact: webmaster@yadvashem.org.il as well as the opening of a new archival site for researchers have enriched the history and historiography of what remains as the most traumatic event of the 20th century From Saul Friedländer’s cohesive rendition of the genesis and enactment of the final solution (2007) to the opening of the Bad Arolsen archives in Germany in 2008 and the new study of the Warsaw Ghetto archives by Samuel D this dossier presents a selection of five reviews and essays recently published on Books&Ideas showing that the study of the Holocaust continues to stir up considerable interest in the international research community Ivan jablonka, 1939-1945: The Germans exterminate the Jews published in Books&Ideas on March 21st 2013 Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Opening the Nazi archives at Bad Arolsen published in Books&Ideas on April 11th Florence Heymann, Ghettos: Centers of Jewish Resistance? published in Books&Ideas on April 25th Audrey Kichelewski, Who Will Write Our History? New Perspectives on the Warsaw Ghetto Archives published in Books&Ideas on 0ctober 3rd Simon Perego, A So-Called Silence, American Jews and the Memory of the Holocaust Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Germany -- Looking back at the first weeks after World War II a French lieutenant named Henri Francois-Poncet despaired at ever fulfilling his mission to establish the fate of French inmates of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp For the living skeletons who survived the Nazi terror the Displaced Persons camp set up two miles away offered little relief from misery A bleak picture springs with stark immediacy from typewritten reports by the Allied officers found in the massive archive of the International Tracing Service in the central German town of Bad Arolsen The Associated Press has been given extensive access to the archive on condition that identities of victims and refugees are protected People still died at the rate of 1,000 to 1,500 a day "Bodies frequently remained for several days in the huts the other inmates being too weak to carry them out," Francois-Poncet wrote in a report for the Allied Military Government "As most of the survivors could not even give their own names it was useless trying to obtain information as to the identity of the dead," he wrote He reported a meager 25 percent success rate When the Third Reich surrendered in May 1945 8 million people were left uprooted around Europe Millions drifted through the 2,500 hastily arranged DP camps before they were repatriated Far from scenes of joyful liberation that should have greeted the end of Nazi oppression and overwhelmed and often insensitive military authorities their families among the 6 million Jews consumed in the Holocaust their homes destroyed or handed out to new occupants Those who wanted to get to Palestine were shut out by a British ban on Jewish immigration to the Israeli state-in-waiting Liberated concentration camps were transformed into DP camps Food was still scarce -- often just coffee and wet black bread -- and medical care was insufficient said a report written for President Harry Truman Inmates were kept under armed guard to maintain order pajama-like concentration-camp-issue uniforms and slept in the same drafty barracks through a bitter winter they could watch through barbed wire fences and see German villagers living normal lives those villagers were forced to tour the camps and help with the burials or at least face up to what their Fuehrer had wrought we appear to be treating the Jews as the Nazis treated them except that we do not exterminate them," wrote presidential envoy Earl G Harrison in his famously quoted report to Truman after visiting that summer questionnaires and affidavits are stuffed into 400,000 envelopes which and fill binders spreading over several rooms of floor-to-ceiling shelves The battle against COVID-19 has delivered not just a vaccine at record speed but also a spike in demand for the billions of syringes needed to administer it One German factory is already busily churning out the little plastic tubes and is confident global needs can be met “There won’t be a shortage of syringes even if we are facing a big challenge,” said Otto-Philipp Braun Germany’s leading syringe manufacturer There won’t be a shortage of syringes even if we are facing a big challenge- Otto-Philipp Braun At the company’s production site in the central German town of Bad Arolsen They churn out disposable syringes 24 hours a day destined for use in Germany and more than 140 other countries around the world One machine moulds high-quality plastic granules into thin while another spits out the pistons that fit snugly inside the cylinder and are needed to push out the vaccine matching the logo of German parent company B.Braun a giant in the medical devices industry and still owned by the Braun family A total of 64 syringes with pistons are assembled every 13 seconds Almo churns out more than two billion syringes of various kinds The needles that can be added to the injection devices are produced by a B.Braun subsidiary in Malaysia The company intends to spend €30 million on an additional assembly line partly to cope with increased demand for the COVID-19 jabs The first orders have already rolled in from Germany’s BioNTech whose vaccine developed with US giant Pfizer is already being administered in some countries another German company whose vaccine candidate is in final stage trials “We can produce 270 million syringes of one millilitre next year and if necessary an extra 200 million from 2022,” Braun told AFP Taking into account larger-size syringes that are also used for vaccine injections Almo has orders for some 500 million units for 2020 and 2021 earlier this week said it had received orders for more than a billion injection devices globally as part of COVID-19 inoculation efforts please register for free or log in to your account.