Tracing and Documenting Nazi Victims Past and Present – Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Tracing and Documenting Nazi Victims Past and Present – Introduction 1
5. On the Uses and Disadvantages of the Arolsen Archives for History 13
6. From Early Tracing Activities to Information for Descendants
7. The (Early) Search for Missing Nazi Victims 37
8. Family Searching and Tracing Services of JDC in the Second World War Era 59
9. Those Left Behind 95
10. Tracing Services in Poland and Czechoslovakia after 1945 117
11. Survivors Helping Survivors 131
12. Caring for the Dead and the Living 155
13. Yad Vashem and Holocaust Victim’s Search for Family 173
14. ITS Research at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for Descendants of Holocaust Victims and Survivors 183
15. The New Tasks and Challenges for Tracing 201
16. Collections and Activities of Archives Dealing with Nazi Victims
17. Collections Archives Dealing with Nazi Victims 221
18. From Tracing and Fate Clarification to Research Center 245
19. “It is our job to find out who did what.” 261
20. The Federal Archives and its Role in German Politics of Remembrance 279
21. Institutes of National Remembrance and their Role in Dealing with National Socialism 291
22. Linking and Enriching Archival Collections in the Digital Age 315
23. Contributors 339