Christian Groh (International Tracing Service – ITS, DE): The Documents of the Nazi Terror Regime and the Immediate Post-War Years co:op-READ-Convention Marburg Technology meets Scholarship, or how Handwritten Text Recognition will Revolutionize Access to Archival Collections. With a special focus on biographical data in archives Hessian State Archives Marburg Friedrichsplatz 15, D - 35037 Marburg 19-21 January 2016

1. International Tracing Service (ITS)
„Technology meets Scholarship.“
Marburg, 19-21 January 2016
Dr. Christian Groh

2. Centre of documentation and
research about Nationalsocialist
persecution
More than 30 million documents
2013 introduction into the UNESCO-
„Memory of the World.“
Basically information for the persons
persecuted and their families
Since 2007 open to research
Part of the memorial culture
Foto: ITS
ITS-Porträt

3. Foto: ITS
ITS-Porträt
Not a „typical“ archive taking over
documents from a specific institution
Rather a very large collection
Archival functions rather late (2007)
Effects on:
structure of the holdings
preservation
cataloguing
High percentage of digitized material
Relatively many metadata via indexing
on document level

4. On the way from a tracing service to an
archive
Holdings structured by content-related
criteria:
incarceration
Forced labour
Displaced Persons
Some holdings based on provenance
predecessors
collections
correspondence
Finding tools, like card files
ITS-Porträt

5. Schreibstubenkarte Gromow, Valentin, Dachau, 1.1.6.7./ 10653732/
ITS Digital Archive, Bad Arolsen
Bestand 1.1.6.7. (Schreibstubenkarten Dachau)
Most cards from the US military
administration
Additional documentation from the
Dachau memorial
187.000 documents
All digitized
Every 25th card indexed

6. importance:
Hardly any original documentation
from Concentration Camps
Evidence of individuals incarderated
In some cases further biographical
information and
Information about further persecution
Bestand 1.1.6.7. (Schreibstubenkarten Dachau)

7. Bestand 1.1.6.7. (Schreibstubenkarten Dachau)

8. Bestand 1.1.6.7. (Schreibstubenkarten Dachau)

9. Bestand 1.1.6.7. (Schreibstubenkarten Dachau)

10. CM1-Umschlag, Rasinac, Ranko, 3.2.1.1./79642167/ ITS Digital Archive, Bad Arolsen
3.2.1.1. (CM1-Akten, Deutschland)
Application of Displaced
Persons to IRO for assistance
in emigration
Taken over from IRO in 1952
and 1975
912.807 documents
All digitized and indexed

11. CM1-Akte, Rasinac, Ranko, 3.2.1.1./79642167/ ITS Digital Archive, Bad Arolsen
3.2.1.1. (CM1-Akten, Deutschland)

12. CM1-Akte, Rasinac, Ranko, 3.2.1.1./79642167/ ITS Digital Archive, Bad Arolsen
3.2.1.1. (CM1-Akten, Deutschland)

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