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records-access alerts

The International Tracing Service (ITS) added 900,000 post-war documents online. This brings the total of number of documents freely available in the online archive to over 2 million. One can search by name. The newly added documents contain approximately 405,000 names of Holocaust survivors, former concentration camp inmates and forced laborers. They were under the care of the International Refugee Organization (IRO) in Austria, Italy, Switzerland and England after World War II.

In June, ITS published its files from the German Displaced Persons in June. This makes it possible to search online for nearly one million names of Displaced Persons (DP) registered and surveyed in DP camps within the framework of the Care and Maintenance Program.

The DPs filled out questionnaires as a way the International Refugee Organization (IRO) could find out whether it could help these persons and if so how. The personal stories of the DP persons are delineated in the questionnaires and provide better insight as their lives.

To search the online archives go to: https://digitalcollections.its-arolsen.org/

You will need to make a declaration of consent that the sensitive information you are using is solely for research purposes and in accordance with applicable national laws and regulations.

To read more about this see: https://tinyurl.com/yaa8olxz

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Staatsarchiv Hamburg

On September 9 The IAJGS Records Access Alert first reported on the unconscionable destruction of over one million death records by the Staatsarchiv Hamburg. At the time there were few European news articles about this travesty. Since then there have been more news articles and several blog posts by other genealogical writers.

As reported previously in the IAJGS Records Access Alert, IAJGS took this egregious act very seriously and wrote to various Hamburg government officials. IAJGS received a response from Dr. Carsten Brosda, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg Minister of Culture and Media. In the letter he acknowledges that the State Archives reviewed their actions and concluded their decision to appraise the series was "flawed". "Both the Ministry for Culture and Media and the State Archives are in discussions with historians and researchers on the matter. To ensure that documents used by researchers are not subsequently weeded, the State Archives have already developed proposals for a workflow which would subject future appraisal decisions to multiple checks before weeding was approved.

Dr. Brosda also informed IAJGS that the crimes committed during the Nazi period are a major work of the Hamburg Archives and that next year the archive material from the Jewish communities of Hamburg pre-1945 are going to be digitized in cooperation with the Israel State Archives so that researchers will in the future be able to access the materials online from anywhere in the world. Archival materials and documents on the Nazi crimes of violence and injustice have already been digitized with Yad Vashem and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He also mentioned that documents including registers of birth, deaths and marriages and emigration records have been digitized, indexed and made available online with cooperation from Ancestry.

Finally, Dr. Brosda stated that the Ministry for Culture and Media and the Hamburg Staatsarchiv plan to work more closely with historical research on the use of and access to archive material to ensure that all interests are taken into account.

To read the previous posting on the Staatsarchiv Hamburg and more go to: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/private/records-access-alerts/. You must be registered to access the archives. To register go to: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/listinfo/records-access-alerts and follow the instructions to enter your email address, full name and which genealogical organization with whom you are affiliated. You will receive an email response that you have to reply to or the subscription will not be finalized.

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

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