The provenience of the belongings of 12 prisoners cannot be described precisely. The names of the owners had been typed on the paper bags which hold their belongings. With the help of the documentation existing at the ITS most of the owners could be identified. Dates of birth, nationalities and the various stations of their prison terms in Germany are recorded in collections held at the ITS. The reason for their imprisonment cannot be established for all of them from the available documentation. Even if the documentation of the prison terms, i.e. the records which prove that a prisoner was sent from one prison to another, is, most likely, incomplete, there are similarities between the prisoners’ fates. This allows for an educated assumption about the areas from which these belongings were sent to the ITS.

According to the available documentation, seven prisoners were imprisoned in an area that later became the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein at the end of the war. It is very likely that their belongings reached the ITS from there(see Document ID 121984635). For three other prisoners there is but a brief note about the amounts of money taken from them. They had spent some time in a prison in Bavaria together. Two of them were later sent to another prison in a region that would later become Saxony-Anhalt. Thus it is likely that the notice mentioned came from Bavaria.

Two further persons could not be identified precisely. Therefore, no statement about how the belongings made their way to the ITS can be provided.