See Argentian page 1 on this site.
Buenos Aires office's address is:
Av. Antärtida Argentina 1355, Retiro,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
AustriaSee Australia page 1 and page 2 on this site.
National Archives of Australia
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/SearchScreens/BasicSearch.aspx
See Austrian pages on this site. Austria A-C , Austria D-G, Austria H , Austria I-K , Austria L-N , Austria P-R , Austria S, Austria T-Z, Austria7,
Kriegsarchiv
Nottendorfergasse 2-4
A-1030 Wien
Fax number: 43-1-795 40-109
See German vocabulary to help you write
"The Austrian War Archive has no military personnel records for individulas that served in Austrian military from ca. 1867-1914 if the soldier's unit was headquartered in places outside of the boundary of contemporary Austria. For Galicia, Poland doesn't have the records and Ukraine doesn't have the records either. The LDS has the records for soldiers which served prior to ca. 1867....they were microfilmed in Vienna. " Lavrentiy Krupniak
RE: Galicia, Zakarpatska, Transcarpathia regions:
Kiev only has the records from the Russian Empire areas. Galicia was never in the Russian Empire. Kiev would have records for Volyn, Podolia, etc.
The Zakarpatska oblast archive has cadastral records for places in Transcarpathia Ukraine.
The Central State Archives of Ukraine/Kyiv (Kiev) Branch has no records for areas where Carpatho-Rusyns resided.
L'viv archives has cadastral records for all places that were in Austria's Galicia, which now includes places in southeastern Poland and L'viv oblast.
To obtain cadastral records from L'viv one has to:
1. write to them,
2. hire a researcher there, or
3. personally visit the archive.
BelarusLavrentiy Krupniak / USA
The Archives of the Republic of Belarus contain extensive information on the historical, genealogical, spiritual and material life of the Belarusian people. The archival network, which was created to preserve the records, is headed by the Committee for Archives and Records Management under the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus (Belkomarkhiv). The Belarusian archival network includes 6 central archives, 6 regional archives, 16 zonal archives and 3 archives of public organizations.
E-mail: ed@archives.gov.by
Tel: +375-17 264-76-71, Fax: +375-17 260-24-45
Nazi occupation of Belarus:
http://archives.gov.by/EItd/ETK_FR1.htm
Click En for English
history of Belarus:
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/63/index-e.html
http://myheritage.com
National Library of Chile
LDS (Latter Day Saints) Library:
Archivo
Nacional de Chile
Miraflores #50 Clasificador
1400 Correo Central de
Chile Santiago,
Chile Tel: (56-2) 632-5735
Croatian State Archives
21 Marulic Square, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Tel. +385 01/48-01-999 Fax +385 01/48-29-000
or
Croatian State Archive
2 Mazuranic Square
10000 Zagreb
State Archives in Rijeka
Address: Drz?vni arhiv u Rijeci, Park Nikole Hosta 2, Rijeka, Croatia
Tel/Fax: ++385 51 33 64 45, 33 64 47, 32 71 18 (director)
ARCHIVES:
Národní archiv, Archivní 4/2257, 149 00 Praha 4 - Chodovec, wwebsite http://www.nacr.cz/
In Slovakia the National archive is http://www.minv.sk/?slovensky-narodny-archiv
Lots of Czech links: http://www.theatrelibrary.org/sibmas/idpac/institutions/st.html
BOOKS: "A Handbook of Czechoslovak Genealogical Research", by Daniel M. Schlyter. (GenUn, 1985, 1990). 131 pages. ($15). ISBN 0-912811-06-4. {Excellent in-depth guide to research, detailing record types, archival addresses, microfilms available, translation helps, etc.}. OUT OF PRINT. A revised version, entitled "A Handbook of Czech and Slovak Genealogical Research" is planned.
Census: http://www.czechfamilytree.com/census.htm
Eastern Slovakia Genealogy Research Strategies
http://iabsi.com/
Denmark
Fax: 35 32 83 77. E-mail: damsholt@coco.ihi.ku.dk. Also e-mail: histtid@hum.ku.dk
Dansk State archive: http://www.sa.dk
Kobenhavns University On-line library catalog
Bibliotek search engine: http://bibliotek.dk/index.php?lingo=eng
Danish Centre for International Studies and Human Rights Library
England - see Searching the British Zone
France
National Archives
Paris, France
Lots of France links: http://www.theatrelibrary.org/sibmas/idpac/institutions/st.html
Germany
Internationaler Suchdienst
Grosse Allee 5-9
34454 Arolsen
Germany
Tel: +49 (0)5691 629-321
Email: historical-research[at]its-arolsen.org
In
English: http://www.its-arolsen.org/en/homepage/index.html
Germany Agrees to Open Holocaust Archive (2006)
The largest archives in the world, it holds up to 50 million documents, some seized by the Allies as they liberated concentration camps. Since 1998, about half of the documents have been copied in digital form. About 20 percent of the documents were copied on microfilm before 1998.
The files are controlled by the International Tracing Service, which operates as an arm of the International Committee of the Red Cross. It is run by a commission representing the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Greece, Israel, Poland and Luxembourg.
Who may file an inquiry and how?
After the end of World War II, the main task of the International Tracing Service (ITS) was to search for non-German persons who had become missing or displaced during the war and to assist separated families in being reunited. Tracing work only represents a small percentage of the entire activities of the ITS these days. The main task now is to assemble, classify and evaluate records about the following groups of persons, that is to issue information from these records:
• Prisoners of the concentration camps as well as of other places of detention under the Reichsführer-SS on the territory of the Reich and on the German-occupied territories, 1933 -1945
• Jews who were deported during the NS-period
• Foreigners who were on the territory of the Reich, mainly on the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany, during the time from 1939 - 1945
• Displaced Persons (DP's) who were under the care of international relief organizations - like UNRRA, IRO etc. - after the Second World War, mainly on the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany, in Austria, Switzerland, Italy and the United Kingdom
• "Children" (i.e. persons who were under 18 years of age at the end of the war) of members of the aforementioned groups of persons who were displaced or separated from their parents due to events of the war respectively who were born on the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany during the war
German Red Cross Tracing Service in Munich: Tracing request http://www.drk-suchdienst.org/
https://arolsen-archives.org/en/
ITS contact form:
9/10/09 Laurence Krupnak Lkrupnak@erols.com wrote:
Contact the Bad Arolsen Archives. Germans kept excellent records of everyone
that set foot in Germany during WW2. These archives will provide you w/father's exact experience in Germany and other personal details like their exact place of birth, parents names, etc. Inquiry by immediate family is available for free. All you need to provide is his full name w/ any other
spelling variants and the exact birth date. Do not provide more info than that !!! They ask for no documention. Your inquiry can be done by e-mail. I understand the archives have upgraded their service and response can be received via e-mail as well. Response can take as much as three months. That part has not changed. Upon accessing site click HUMANITARIAN REQUESTS. Follow instructions. ITS-AROLSEN.ORG http://its-arolsen.org/en/homepage/index.html
ITS 2012 Call for memorabilia for an exhibition on Displaced Persons after WW II
The International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen since its opening at the end of 2007, has develop into an international centre for documentation, information as well as research and education about persecution, forced labour and the Holocaust carried out by Nazi-Germany. The ITS documents, not only the fate of millions of victims and survivors, but also the administration behind Nazi-Germany’s atrocities as well as Allied efforts to assists and care for those who had survived.
The ITS works on an traveling exhibition on Displaced Persons (working title: Life in Transit)
The exhibition will be funded by Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” http://www.stiftung-evz.de/eng/.
Displaced Persons are meant here as defined in the Allied classification: those who were persecuted, deported and displaced by force by Nazi-Germany.
The ITS seeks for objects from DP Camps and memorabilia from this period of life which we may insert into the exhibition. The owner shall understand that we:
- would lend objects such as photos, press, announcements for films, exhibitions, elections, certificates from vocational trainings, universities, schools etc. and show them only as facsimiles/ digitized images to protect them.
- If you would like to loan everyday objects to the ITS for this exhibition, we would be grateful, too.
We would like to get information about the background of these items which you may offer us for the exhibition. This background information may be formulated as statements and we probably would insert them into the exhibit as well. Perhaps we would not be able inserting each object / statement into the exhibit; a choice will be done according to the exhibits ‘ narrative.
Please do contact us before sending us anything
Head of Department: Dr. Susanne Urban; historical-research@its-arolsen.org
Research/ Education: René Bienert / Elisabeth Schwabauer: research-education@its-arolsen.org
If you want to get further information on yourself and your family during and after persecution, please inquire at: email@its-arolsen.org
----------------
ITS research:
On 2/11/08 Olga,
Your DP site is the most comprehensive one I've seen on the subject. You've done an awesome job!
My dad was born in Lithuania and lived in several DP camps while in the French occupation zone of Germany. I'm busy researching his time there and have received several records regarding him from the International Tracing Service (ITS) of the International Red Cross Cross.
The ITS has 50 million individual records of World War II history. One individual may have several records in the ITS database. These records have now been made available for research following a lengthy period of time during which access to these records was extremely limited.Sincerely,
Tom Sadauskas tsadausk@erols.comFollowup 6/7/10:
My request had been forwarded to the French archives and they found other new documents that they extracted info from. My dad lived in the French occupation zone of Germany and the French created their own set of documents that never got into the ITS archives. Take care. TomFollowup 10/22017: ITS list of 963 DP camps.I checked Reutlingen, Germany and found ITS had included camp rosters of the DPs at the camp. I was able to find my father on a roster from 14 January 1948.
The ITS URL is: https://digitalcollections.its-arolsen.org/03010102Hope this helps.
Keep up the good work with the DP website, I know everyone appreciates your efforts. Best regards. Tom Sadauskas
-----------------
Berlin Archives:
Tel.: +49 (0)30 / 369 93 119
Fax: +49 (0)30 / 369 93 300
E-mail: thorsten.bernhard@bgr.de
Lots of German links: http://www.theatrelibrary.org/sibmas/idpac/institutions/st.html
Bremen Archives There exists several card files in the Bremen archive.
For example, there is a IRO card file, a Canada card file, and several others.
Bremenhaven -
Deutsche Auswanderer Datenbank (DAD), German databank contains emigration
to North America through Bremen. The DAD is primarily concerned with the
German emigration ports of Bremen/Bremerhaven, Hamburg and Cuxhaven. However,
in some cases the ports of Boulogne, Cherbourg, Le Havre or Southampton and
others are also recorded as frequently the ships would call at various European
ports and take passengers on board before crossing the Atlantic. The passenger
lists were always written in English.
DAD
German emigrants databank http://www.deutsche-auswanderer-datenbank.de/ In English: http://www.deutsche-auswanderer-datenbank.de/index.php?id=2 Historisches
Museum Bremerhaven Morgenstern-Museum
City of Bremerhaven: http://www.bremerhaven.de/
An der Geeste
27570 Bremerhaven
Tel: 00 49-471-3 08 16-0
Fax: 00 49-471-5 90 27 00
E-mail: info@historisches-museum-bremerhaven.de
Arbeitsgruppe EXILMUSIK
Musikwissenschaftliches Institut der Universität Hamburg
Neue Rabenstrasse 13
D-20354 Hamburg
Tel. +49 - 040 - 42838-2555/-4863
Fax +49 - 040 - 6003113
E-mail: mail@exilmusik.de
ICRC Archives :
The ICRC may assist you by establishing a detention certificate if the sought person had been notified by the detaining power as a prisoner of war, or by communicating relevant information if the sought person has been assisted by the ICRC in exercising its mandate at the time of war.
Landeshauptstadt Munchen
Kreisverwaltungsreferat
Standesamt
Ruppertstr. 1
München
Tel: 089/233-44344
Fax: 089/233-44320
Archiv des Erzbistums Munchen und Freising Archives of the Archbishops of Munchen and Freising
Karmeliterstr. 1
80333 München
Germany
Staatsarchiv für Oberfranken:
Hainstr. 39,
D 8600 Bamberg,
Germany
State Archives at Osnabrueck (Niedersüchsisches Staatsarchiv Osnabrück,
Schlöstr. 29,
D-49074 Osnabrueck, Germany
Tel: +49(541) 33162-0 . . .
Fax: +49(541) 33162-62
E-Mail: poststelle@staatsarchiv-os.niedersachsen.de
Since about 1990, this Archive (for Schwaben/Suabia, i.e. southwestern part of Bavaria) is located in Augsburg, not in Neuburg any more:
Staatsarchiv Augsburg
Salomon-Idler-Str. 2
D-86159 Augsburg
Tel. 0821/599 63-30
Fax 0821/599 63-333
E-Mail: poststelle@staau.bayern.deDr. Hermann Beyer-Thoma
Osteuropa-Institut Munchen
Historische Abteilung
Scheinerstrasse 11
D 81476 Munchen
E-mail: Beyer-Thoma@t-online.de
Tel.: ++49 89/99839-442 (Mo, Di / Mo, Tu)
Fax: ++49 89/75998228
German War Archives
Deutsches Bundesarchiv--Militärarchiv
German archives:
website (in German) contains addresses of municipal archives, state archives,
archives of industrial firms, university archives, church archives and private
archives and gives you basic information: address, opening times, archival sources.
The data on sources vary in quality as every archive is responsible for
updating the data and only bigger archives manage to do so.
Archives
in Germany: An Introductory Guide to Institutions & Sources
http://www.archive.nrw.de/archivar/index.html
http://www.archive.nrw.de/archivar/2000-02/A16.htm
addresses
of War Archives in Germany
1945 file in German Red Cross Archives in Berlin
- has its own page
Duetsches Rotes Kreuz (German Red Cross) Generalsekretariat, Suchdienst München, (Tracing Service)
Unesco Archives - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultureal
Organization
German Military Records
Ukrainische Freie Universitat - Bibliothek
Ukrainian World Congress
Directory of Ukrainian Organizations in the Diaspora by region on Brama web
See
German vocabulary to
help you write.
Wiesenthalstrasse 10
85356 Freiburg Germany
Chiemgaustrasse 109
81549 Meunchen
Germany
Pienzenauerstrasse 15
81679 Munchen
Tel.: 089/99738845
Fax: 089/99738850
E-mail: kdx01010@mail.lrz-muenchen.de
Zentralvertretung der Ukrainer in Deutschland
Zeppelinstr. 67
Munchen
GERMANY D-81699
Hungary
The National Archives of Hungary English:
tel.: (+36 1) 225-2844
fax: (+36-1) 225-2817
email: info@mol.gov.hu
Postal address: 1014 Budapest, 2–4 Bécsi kapu square / 1250 Budapest PO Box 3
Hungarian Census and church records / resources: http://www.iabsi.com/gen/public/CensusMain.htm
Jared H. Suess' "Handy Guide To Hungarian Genealogical Records"
Ireland
The National Archives
Bishop Street
Dublin 8
Ireland
Phone + 353 (1) 407-2300
Fax + 353 (1) 407-2333
E-mail: email@nationalarchives.ie
Israel
search: http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/en/pages/default.aspx
Central Zionist Archives, http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/ZA/pMainE.aspx Click on English
Email: cza@jazo.org.ill
Tel: 972-2-6204834
THE CENTRAL ARCHIVES FOR THE HISTORY
OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
Location: Hi-Tech Village 3/4, Giv'at Ram Campus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Postal Address: POB 39077, Jerusalem 91390
Tel. 972-2-6586249
Fax 972-2-6535426
E-Mail: archives@vms.huji.ac.il
I am working at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People and am currently sorting out documents from the Jewish community in Vienna after WW II (mainly 1945-1951). Among others, the material contains about 15 big boxes with documents on the DP camps in Vienna and mainly on the "International Committee for Jews from Concentration Camps and Refugees" in Vienna.
Our Archives also hold the records of the Jewish community of Vienna before W.W.II. This material has been catalogued about 40 years ago. The material from after WW II on which I am working now is very interesting and contains much information on the DPs. A major part of the material are lists of the DPs in the vrious homes, mainly the Rothschild hospital the Arzbergerheim and the Frankgasse 2.
Denise Rein
Lithuania
Archives in Lithuania
http://www.archyvai.lt/en/archives/historicalarchives.html
Continue on to Addresses by country, N-Z