There are many myths surrounding the materials of the Arolsen Archives in Bad Arolsen, Germany. The International Center on Nazi persecution was, for many years, called the International Tracing Service of the International Red Cross (ITS). It was established as the Central Tracing Bureau at the end of World War II by the Red Cross and Allied forces to trace missing and displaced people and attempt to reunite them with relatives.
This presentation presented the history of the archives and what information can generally be gleaned from the archives' material. Serafima described the challenge of searching in the Arolsen material and strategies for finding the best information from the files, as well as the new and exciting ability to search the Arolsen Archives material online.
Serafima Velkovich is the Head of the Family Roots Research Section in the Reference and Information Department of Yad Vashem Archives division. She has been working at Yad Vashem for 17 years. She is also a PhD Candidate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Serafima was closely involved in the work on names material in Yad Vashem`s databases. At the same time, her main research field is family roots. She lectures on the use of Yad Vashem resources for genealogical and other research and participates in international conferences and films on Holocaust topics. Her recent publication is “Polish Citizenship as a Way to Freedom: How Soviet Jews Escaped the USSR Using Polish Documents” in “Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939–1959): History and Memory of Deportation, Exile, and Survival”.
This presentation presented the history of the archives and what information can generally be gleaned from the archives' material. Serafima described the challenge of searching in the Arolsen material and strategies for finding the best information from the files, as well as the new and exciting ability to search the Arolsen Archives material online.
Serafima Velkovich is the Head of the Family Roots Research Section in the Reference and Information Department of Yad Vashem Archives division. She has been working at Yad Vashem for 17 years. She is also a PhD Candidate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Serafima was closely involved in the work on names material in Yad Vashem`s databases. At the same time, her main research field is family roots. She lectures on the use of Yad Vashem resources for genealogical and other research and participates in international conferences and films on Holocaust topics. Her recent publication is “Polish Citizenship as a Way to Freedom: How Soviet Jews Escaped the USSR Using Polish Documents” in “Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939–1959): History and Memory of Deportation, Exile, and Survival”.
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