TRACES is a non-profit educational organization created to gather, preserve and present stories of people from the Midwest and Germany or Austria who encountered each other during World War II. Many of these stories laid beneath the dust left in the wake of a World War most never thought touched the American Heartland. TRACES brushed away that dust, unearthing an amazing legacy. As we learn about these stories, may we rise above–and eventually defeat–the prejudices, fears and conflicts that otherwise demean and destroy us.

immigrants and exiles	Midwest witnesses	Midwest diplomats	Midwest journalists	admirers of Nazism	rescuers of Jews	Maria & Lucille	Anne Frank
internees	POWs	Midwest liberators	postwar relief volunteers	Berlin Airlift	German war brides	Programs Traveling exhibits recent | first TRACES Museum