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International Tracing Service

Yaron Roksa holds pen confiscated by the Nazis from his father at Neuengamme concentration camp in 1944. The pen was returned to the Roksa family by ITS on July 3, 2018. (Laura Ben-David/Courtesy of ITS)
July 11, 2018, 6:34 pm
Nazi-confiscated pen helps ToI track down survivor’s son, rewrite family history
International Tracing Service and Times of Israel journalist jointly find descendants of Istvan Rokza, to restitute his stripped possessions and unearth buried heritage
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Established in 1933 by Alfred Wiener, a German Jew decorated with the Iron Cross in World War I, the Wiener Holocaust Library in London is the world's oldest Holocaust museum. (Courtesy)
June 3, 2018, 10:06 am
You’ve probably never heard of the world’s oldest Holocaust museum
Founded in 1933, London’s Wiener Library actively collected material in real time throughout WWII, later playing a key role in the Nuremberg, Eichmann and Irving trials
By Robert Philpot
Dana Rogozinski (right) with her grandmother Ella Lucak Rogozinski in 2015. (Courtesy)
May 1, 2018, 6:59 pm
Granddaughter of Holocaust survivors makes jewelry featuring Nazi tattoo numbers
Dana Rogozinski names company after her grandparents; aims to ‘spark important conversations’ through unique necklaces, bracelets, cuff links
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Photo of Nathan van Dam and his bride Esther Israel, Nazi-occupied Holand, 1942. Found in Nathan van Dam's recovered wallet. (Martine van Dam)
February 14, 2018, 1:01 am
New campaign launched to return personal effects to victims of Nazi persecution
International Tracing Service uses outdoor exhibitions, collaborative technology to find owners of confiscated jewelry, wallets, photos, and other everyday items of #StolenMemory
By Renee Ghert-Zand
DP card. In a policy paper drafted on 18 November 1944, the Allies coined the term "Displaced Persons," prescribed how the survivors of Nazi terror were to be treated, cared for, and returned to their countries of origin. (ITS)
April 23, 2017, 11:28 pm
Vast German archive holds the secret to combating Holocaust denial
Increased access to 30 million documents housed in the International Tracing Service helps fuel research, combat revisionism and bring closure to victims’ families
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Typical form for International Tracing Service of Red Cross that was used as evidence in the applications for compensation (Jenni Frazer/The Times of Israel)
January 9, 2017, 10:35 pm
German Holocaust archive publishes inventory online
30 million documents on Nazi persecution, forced labor and survivors put on indexed website
By AP
Ofir Efroni hopes to find Rozsi Friedman (left, in 1948), who saved his grandmother, Koti Grunbaum (right), from certain death at Auschwitz. (Courtesy of Sara Efroni via JTA)
December 26, 2012, 2:03 am
Grandson takes over search for Holocaust survivor’s savior
As Alzheimer’s erases his grandmother’s memory, Ofir Efroni hopes to find the woman who helped her live through Auschwitz
By Hillel Kuttler
May 31, 2012, 11:24 am
US university professor to head Holocaust archive
The International Tracing Service, now a research institute, was established post-WWII by Western Allies and run by the Red Cross to help find Holocaust victims
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