Zuzana Knoblauch, nee Hartman, missing since September 1943. She is one of the over 17.5 million people who feature in the ITS Digital Archive.

Manx National Heritage is pleased to host a free day programme and exhibition provided by the Wiener Holocaust Library and Royal Holloway, University of London. The Wiener Holocaust Library is home to the UK’s International Tracing Service digital archive, which holds millions of documents related to the Holocaust and Nazi era. The archive preserves the shared past of victims and survivors of the Holocaust and helps support family research of Nazi persecution.

We welcome archivists, historians, students, family historians, heritage practitioners, and anyone interested in Jewish and Holocaust history and its aftermath.

Learn about global efforts made after the Holocaust to find Zuzana Knobloch and millions of others like her.  The work of the International Tracing Service (ITS) will be explored and connections made to the many Jewish refugees held as internees on the Island. There will be an opportunity to view the Fate Unknown pop-up exhibition and Manx Museum galleries during the lunch break

The programme schedule is as follows:

11.00 – 11.30:  Arrival and coffees

11.30 – 12.30:  Fate Unknown exhibition curators’ talk with Christine Schmidt and Dan Stone

12.30 – 13.30: Break (food not provided)

13.30 – 14.10 :  Family Research Workshop with Elise Bath

14.10 – 14.30:   Aspects of World War II Internment on the Isle of Man with Yvonne Cresswell

14.30 – 15.00:  Q&A and Consultations