Director of the Arolsen Archives (m/f/x)

Director of the Arolsen Archives (m / f / x)

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The International Tracing Service (ITS, currently operating under the name Arolsen Archives International Center on Nazi Persecution) is the international center on Nazi persecution with the world's most comprehensive archive on the victims and survivors of National Socialism.

The collection has information on about 17.5 million people and belongs to UNESCO's Memory of the World. It contains documents on the various victim groups targeted by the Nazi regime and is an important source of knowledge for society today.

Since May 2019, the ITS has been operating under the new name Arolsen Archives International Center on Nazi Persecution. The institution itself has not changed and it continues to do the same work, as it did in the past.

International Tracing Service is preserved as a legal name because the international agreements with the member states use this name..

The International Tracing Service (ITS) was established by the Allies at Bad Arolsen in Germany following the end of the Second World War for the purpose of tracing missing persons who had suffered persecution by the Nazis.

The ITS was also given the task of collecting, classifying, preserving and rendering accessible to governments and interested individuals, including survivors and / or the families of Nazi victims, the documents relating to persons persecuted by the National Socialists in concentration camps and other sites of internment and persecution or as forced labourers who were displaced as a result of the war.

The Archives today hold over 30 million documents pertaining to 17.5 million persons.

The Arolsen Archives come under the authority of the International Commission for the International Tracing Service (IC-ITS) which is comprised of eleven states : Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom and United States of America.

Between 1955 and 2012 the International Commission managed the ITS through the good offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva, which then also provided the Director.

The government of the Federal Republic of Germany has funded the work of the ITS since 1955.

In 2007 the International Commission decided to open up the archives for public research. While continuing the preservation and tracing work of the ITS, the intention was to facilitate an expansion of its activities to include the development of the Archives into a center for documentation, information and research, which will ensure that the fates of those who fell victim to National Socialism and of the survivors continue to be studied for the enlightenment of future generations.

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