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 /

Archival series of ICRC

Reference Code

71200001

Creation Date

1939 - 1961

Number of documents

87576

Scope and content

The collection comprises several sub-collections received from the ICRC at different times. The sub-series "Israélites, 1939 - 1961" and the sub-series "Hostages and Political Prisoners 1939 - 1952" consist of digitezed microfilm reels received in February 1997.
The sub-series "Room lists of Ghetto Theresienstadt (Terezín)" and " Cards from the French internment camp Drancy" consisst of digitized images received in 2022.
Last sub-series comprises digitized photographs taken in several Nazi camps after the liberation and other pictures pertaining the aid and support for former prisoners.

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