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