Borggräfe / Höschler / Panek Tracing and Documenting Nazi Victims Past and Present

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-11-066537-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 350 Seiten

Reihe: Arolsen Research Series

After World War II, tracing and documenting Nazi victims emerged against the background of millions of missing persons and early compensation proceedings. This was a process in which the Allies, international aid organizations, and survivors themselves took part. New archives, documentation centers and tracing bureaus were founded amid the increasing Cold War divide. They gathered documents on Nazi persecution and structured them in specialized collections to provide information on individual fates and their grave repercussions: the loss of relatives, the search for a new home, physical or mental injuries, existential problems, social support and recognition, but also continued exclusion or discrimination. By doing so, institutions involved in this work were inevitably confronted with contentious issues—such as varying political mandates, neutrality vs. solidarity with those formerly persecuted, data protection vs. public interest, and many more. Over time, tracing bureaus and archives changed methods and policies and even expanded their activities, using historical documents for both research and public remembrance. This is the first publication to explore this multifaceted history of tracing and documenting past and present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Borggräfe, Henning

Höschler, Christian

Panek, Isabel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tracing and Documenting Nazi Victims Past and Present – Table of Contents Floriane AzoulayPreface Henning Borggräfe, Christian Höschler, and Isabel PanekTracing and Documenting Nazi Victims Past and Present – Introduction Dan Stone On the Uses and Disadvantages of ITS for History From Early Tracing Activities to Information for DescendantsChristian Höschler and Isabel Panek The (Early) Search for Missing Nazi Victims: Historical Precedents, Organizational Frameworks, and Methods Linda G. Levi Family Searching and Tracing Services of JDC in the World War II Era Christine Schmidt Those Left Behind: Early Search Efforts in Wartime and Postwar Britain Maren Hachmeister Tracing Services in Poland and Czechoslovakia after 1945: Between Humanitarian Principles and Socialist Ideology René Bienert Help for Survivors – Help from Survivors: Simon Wiesenthal and the Early Years of the Search for Nazi Criminals in Linz Silke von der Emde
Caring for the Dead and the Living: DPs and the
Arolsen Archives of FeelingsZvi Bernhardt Yad Vashem and Holocaust Victim’s Search for Family Diane Afoumado
ITS Research at the
Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum
for Descendants of Holocaust Victims and Survivors
Ramona Bräu, Kerstin Hofmann, and Anna Meier-Osinski The New Tasks and Challenges for Tracing Collections and Activities of Archives Dealing with Nazi Victims Henning Borggräfe and Isabel Panek
The
Arolsen Archives
as an Example for the Emergence of
Collections Archives
after 1945
Rebecca Boehling From Tracing and Fate Clarification to Research Center: The Role of International Players and Transnationalism in Shaping the Identity of the ITS Kerstin Hofmann
"It is our job to find out who did what." The
Central Office
in Ludwigsburg and Cooperation with the ITS
Tobias Herrmann
The
Federal Archives
and its Role in German
Politics of RemembranceCarola Lau Institutes of National Remembrance and their Role in the Analysis of National Socialism – An Examination of the Issues, Debates and Public Perceptions Puck Huitsing and Edwin Klijn
Linking and Enriching Archival Collections in the Digital Age: The
Dutch War Collections Network List of Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Henning Borggräfe,
Arolsen Archives;
Christian Höschler
, Arolsen Archives;
Isabel Panek
, Museum of the City of Leipzig.