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We hold the UK’s only copy of the International Tracing Service Archive: 30million pages of Holocaust-era records, used for family research for survivors & victim families. We never charge for this work & need your support to help families learn, often for the first time, the fate of lost loved ones
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Situation
The International Tracing Service Archive requires expert, multi-lingual researchers to navigate. Each case can take weeks to finish. We face 2 seemingly conflicting issues: to reduce response time & manage the backlog of cases which has developed since Covid; & to raise awareness of the potential in researching family histories of the Holocaust to new audiences around the UK. The work that can be done with our Archive is remarkable: we want to help as many people as we can, accurately & quickly
Solution
We will work towards solving both issues: our team will be reconfigured to allow our researchers to work effectively, clearing the backlog of research cases while also responding quickly to new enquiries. We will build capacity to efficiently manage the increase in cases resulting from our planned outreach efforts, which will raise awareness of the potential of this incredible archive to new communities, letting us help as many families as possible uncover their relatives’ fate
