November 28, 2007
CNN.com/europe
The 11 countries that oversee the archive of the International Tracing Service have finished ratifying an accord unsealing some 50 million pages kept in the German town of Bad Arolsen, ITS director Reto Meister said Wednesday.
“The ratification process is complete,” said Meister, whose organization is part of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
“We are there. The doors are open,” he said, speaking by telephone while visiting the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial with a delegation of U.S. congressional staff members.
To read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/11/28/nazi.archive.ap/index.html
Related Links:
1. ITS Inventory
Searchable database.
The archives of the International Tracing Service (ITS) contain over 21,000 separate collections of historical documentation. This on-line inventory of collections has been designed to enable users to begin the process of determining whether or not the information they are seeking may be contained in the ITS archives. Collection descriptions are presented in both German and English, and the inventory search engine functions equally well in both languages.
2. International Tracing Service (ITS)
3. U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
4. Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial
