Archival tree of the Arolsen Archives

0 - Global Finding Aids

1 - Incarceration Documents

2 - Registration of Foreigners and German Persecutees by Public Institutions, Social Securities and Companies (1939 - 1947)

3 - Registrations and Files of Displaced Persons, Children and Missing Persons

4 - Special NSDAP organizations and actions

5 - Death Marches, identification of unkown dead and Nazi trials

6 - Records of the ITS and its predecessors

7 - Archival records of microforms (new material / document acquisition)

7.1 - Microfilms

7.2 - Document acquisition in the former Soviet Union

7.3 - Document acquisition in Sweden

7.4 - Document acquisition in former Yugoslavia

7.5 - Document acquisition in Germany

7.6 - Document acquisition in the US

7.7 - Document acquisition in Belgium

7.8 - Document acquisition in Poland

7.9 - Document acquisition in Hungary

7.10 - Dokumentenerwerb in England

7.11 - Document acquisition in Austria

7.12 - Document acquisition - International organisations

11000222 - Files of UNRRA Germany Mission: Central Headquarters (Arolsen) Department of Field Operations: Central Tracing Bureau

71200001 - Archival series of ICRC

7.15 - Document acquisition in Romania

7.16 - Document acquisition in Estonia

7.13 - Document acquisition in the Czech Republic

7.14 - Document acquisition in Israel

8 - Collections of private persons and small archives

7 Archival records of microforms (new material / document acquisition) / 7.12 Document acquisition - International organisations /

Files of UNRRA Germany Mission: Central Headquarters (Arolsen) Department of Field Operations: Central Tracing Bureau

Reference Code

11000222

Creation Date

1945 - 1947

Number of documents

3505

Scope and content

The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was an international relief agency founded in 1943 with headquarters in New York, included in the United Nations (UN) in 1945, and operating until 1947.
Its purpose was to the administration of measures for the relief of victims of war in any area under the control of the United Nations.
The Germany Mission cooperated with other private and public organizations in helping Displaced Persons return to their home countries in Europe in 1945-46.
Collection consist of correspondence, bulletins, circulars, reports, cables and other records produced by the UNRRA Germany Mission pertaining tracing of missing people, prisoners of war and internees from Nazi camps.

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