Fate Unknown - Tracing the Missing After World War II and the Holocaust

Dan Stone tells the story of the last great unknown archive of Nazism, the International Tracing Service, set up to find missing persons at the end of World War II. Spanning across death marches, slave labour, and liberation, Fate Unknown uncovers the history of this remarkable archive which holds over 30 million documents.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• Abbreviations


• Prologue


• Introduction: Tracing the Holocaust


• 1: Tracing the Tracers: The History and Politics of Tracing


• 2: Discoveries: Tracing Stories


• 3: Slaves for the Reich: The Nazi Sub-camp Systems of Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen


• 4: Columns of Misery: Death Marches and Liberation


• 5: The Legion of the Lost


• 6: Survivors, Displaced Persons, Refugees: The Searchers and the Searched For


• 7: Tracing Survival


• 8: Europe's Missing Children


• Conclusion: The ITS and Holocaust Consciousness

About the author

Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he has taught since 1999. Prior to that, he was a Junior Research Fellow at New College, Oxford.

Summary

Dan Stone tells the story of the last great unknown archive of Nazism, the International Tracing Service, set up to find missing persons at the end of World War II. Spanning across death marches, slave labour, and liberation, Fate Unknown uncovers the history of this remarkable archive which holds over 30 million documents.

Additional text

It is essential reading for scholars of German-occupied Europe and the Holocaust who are looking for new avenues of research. Genealogists will also benefit from the overview of the archive and the introduction to various collections within it.

Product details

• Authors: Stone , Dan Stone, Dan (Professor of Modern History and Direct Stone
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.07.2023
• EAN: 9780198846598
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884659-8
• No. of pages: 456
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater