The Holocaust: International Tracing Service

A few months ago, 60 Minutes profiled the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany. Created by the Red Cross shortly after World War II, it is the largest Holocaust archive in the world, with 16 miles of shelves housing 50 million documents about 17 million victims of the Holocaust, including:

The paper trail for "Frank, Annaliese Marie" as she was sent from Amsterdam to her eventual death at Bergen-Beslen;

A list of 700 men and 300 women ordered to Brnenec-Brunnlitz in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to work in the munitions factory owned by Oskar Schindler;

A "Totenbuch" ["death book"] for a single month recording the execution of one prisoner every two minutes.

During the episode, 60 Minutes accompanies Walter Feiden, Miki Schwartz, and Jack Rosenthal, the first Holocaust survivors to enter the archive.

International Tracing Service: <http://www.its-arolsen.org/>

The rest of the story: 60 Minutes [13 minutes].