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Understanding the International Tracing Service

Understanding the International Tracing Service
Lecturer: Diane Afoumado, USHMM

The International Tracing Service archive (ITS) was established by the Allied powers after World War II to help reunite families separated during the war and to trace missing family members. The Allies collected millions of pages of documentation captured during the war. Since then, the archive has continued to grow and is overseen by an 11-nation International Commission comprised of Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, the United Kingdom and the United States. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is the United States’ repository for the ITS collection. The Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center at the USHMM will search for documents in the records of the ITS, as well as other collections of the museum. Join us as Dr. Diane Afoumado, Chief of the ITS Research Branch at the USHMM provides a background on what can be found within this archive and how it can be used for research. Through case studies and sample archival materials, we will get an insight into this amazing resource on the history of the Holocaust.

Dr. Diane F. Afoumado is Chief of the ITS Research Branch at the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center at the USHMM in Washington, D.C. Formerly Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Paris X-Nanterre and the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris, she worked for the two French Commissions related to compensation to Jewish victims. She also worked as a Historian for the Archival Division of the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine–Mémorial de la Shoah. She is the author of several books and has written more than 20 articles related to the Holocaust.











When: Sun., Dec. 6, 2015 at 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Queensborough Community College
222-05 56th Ave.
718-281-5044
Price: Free
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Understanding the International Tracing Service
Lecturer: Diane Afoumado, USHMM

The International Tracing Service archive (ITS) was established by the Allied powers after World War II to help reunite families separated during the war and to trace missing family members. The Allies collected millions of pages of documentation captured during the war. Since then, the archive has continued to grow and is overseen by an 11-nation International Commission comprised of Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, the United Kingdom and the United States. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is the United States’ repository for the ITS collection. The Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center at the USHMM will search for documents in the records of the ITS, as well as other collections of the museum. Join us as Dr. Diane Afoumado, Chief of the ITS Research Branch at the USHMM provides a background on what can be found within this archive and how it can be used for research. Through case studies and sample archival materials, we will get an insight into this amazing resource on the history of the Holocaust.

Dr. Diane F. Afoumado is Chief of the ITS Research Branch at the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center at the USHMM in Washington, D.C. Formerly Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Paris X-Nanterre and the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris, she worked for the two French Commissions related to compensation to Jewish victims. She also worked as a Historian for the Archival Division of the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine–Mémorial de la Shoah. She is the author of several books and has written more than 20 articles related to the Holocaust.

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