| Description |
1 online resource (422 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Tracing the Holocaust -- What Is the ITS? -- 1. Tracing the Tracers: The History and Politics of Tracing -- Prologue -- Tracing -- Excluding the Red Cross -- Running ITS -- HICOG Period -- ICRC Period -- Opening ITS -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- 2. Discoveries: Tracing Stories -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Polish Jew: Early Reports of the Death Camps -- Otto Wolken: A Doctor in Auschwitz -- Natalia Skibińska and a Mother's Wounded Heart |
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E715: British POWs Witness Nazi Atrocities -- Epilogue -- 3. Slaves for the Reich: The Nazi Sub-camp Systems of Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen -- Prologue -- Introduction -- The Development of the Sub-camps at Gross-Rosen and Auschwitz -- Administering the Gross-Rosen Sub-camps -- The Gross-Rosen Sub-camps: The Victims' Perspective -- The Organization of the Auschwitz Sub-camps -- Evacuation of the Auschwitz Sub-camps -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- 4. Columns of Misery: Death Marches and Liberation -- Prologue -- Death Marches -- Liberation -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- 5. The Legion of the Lost |
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Prologue -- 'Graves Recheck' -- Identification of the Unknown Dead -- Epilogue -- 6. Survivors, Displaced Persons, Refugees: The Searchers and the Sought For -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Searching -- Medical Care -- Resettlement -- Epilogue -- 7. Tracing Survival -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Elderly Survivors -- The Auschwitz Sonderkommando -- The Iron Guard in Nazi Captivity: Tracing the Survival of Romanian Fascists -- Epilogue -- 8. Europe's Missing Children -- Prologue -- The Child Search Branch -- 10,000 Children -- Epilogue -- Conclusion: The ITS and Holocaust Memory -- Bibliography |
| Summary |
Dan Stone tells the story of the last great unknown archive of Nazism, the International Tracing Service, set up to find missing persons at the end of World War II. Spanning across death marches, slave labour, and liberation, Fate Unknown uncovers the history of this remarkable archive which holds over 30 million documents |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Index |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 04, 2023) |
| Subject |
International Tracing Service.
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| SUBJECT |
International Tracing Service fast |
| Subject |
Nazi concentration camp inmates -- Germany -- Archives
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Missing persons -- Germany -- Registers
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees.
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Missing persons
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Nazi concentration camp inmates
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Refugees
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
registers (lists)
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Archives
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Registers (Lists)
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Registers (Lists)
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Registres.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0192585797 |
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9780192585806 |
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0192585800 |
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9780191994753 |
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0191994758 |
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9780192585790 |
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