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Archival Collections at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

Arolsen Archives

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Arolsen Archives - International center on Nazi Persecution

The Arolsen Archives are an international center on Nazi persecution with the world’s most comprehensive archive on the victims and survivors of National Socialism. The collection has information on about 17.5 million people and belongs to UNESCO’s Memory of the World. It contains documents on the various victim groups targeted by the Nazi regime and is an important source of knowledge for society today. Located in Bad Arolsen, Germany.

Cybrary of the Holocaust

Fold3 - Holocaust Era Assets $

Consisting primarily of the Ardelia Hall Collection, these titles represent the investigation into looted artwork and other artifacts, as well as the effort by the United States and its allies to reunite items with their original owners. Fold3 is an online repository for original historical documents, combined with the ability for users to make comments, annotations, and upload their own documents. The focus of Fold3 is to be a comprehensive collection of U.S. Military records. Some areas of Fold3 are free to use, while others can be freely searched and then viewed with a paid subscription.

Hadorot.com

Holocaust video memorial tribute site with social media.

Holocaust and War Victims Tracing and Information Center

The Red Cross' clearinghouse for persons seeking the fates of loved ones missing since the Holocaust and its aftermath. Assists U.S. residents searching for proof of internment, forced/slave labor, or evacuation from former Soviet territories on themselves or family members.

Holocaust Global Registry

From JewishGen. For anyone searching Holocaust survivors, for survivors searching family members or friends, and for child survivors searching clues to their identity.

Holocaust Names

Online meeting place for those who are seeking word of family members lost in the camps and other seats of Nazi terror, both those who might still be living and those who might be dead. The Names List section of this website offers free space to post messages from those who are looking, providing them a voice to share the names of those who have been lost and to ask for help in recovering their memories.

How to Document Victims and Locate Survivors of the Holocaust

Partial contents online of the book by the same title from Avotaynu.

Kindertransport Association

Organization of child Holocaust survivors who were sent, without their parents, out of Austria, Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia to Great Britain.

Livre Memorial Des Deportes De France

Database of French people sent to concentration camps (Dachau, Mauthausen, Neuengamme, Natzwiller, Oranienburg Sachsenhausen...)

Memorial de la Shoah

Database of Jews living in France, victims of the Nazis. Listing of deportation names from France to Auschwitz.

Nadworna, Ukraine

English language section of the yizkor book for Nadworna, Galicia (today Nadvirna, Ukraine).

Poland's Holocaust - A Family Chronicle of Soviet and Nazi Terror

The history of a Polish family scattered by World War Two.
[The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

ShoahConnect.org - reunite families separated by the Shoah (Holocaust)

ShoahConnect provides a tool to associate email addresses with the more than two million Pages of Testimony on Yad Vashem's website, automatically matches people associated with the same Pages, and facilitates semi-private contact between them. The site is completely non-commercial.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Washington, Dc.

Voices of the Holocaust

In 1946, Dr. David P. Boder, a psychology professor from Chicago's Illinois Institute of Technology, traveled to Europe to record the stories of Holocaust survivors in their own words. Over a period of three months, he visited refugee camps in France, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany, carrying a wire recorder and 200 spools of steel wire, upon which he was able to record over 90 hours of first-hand testimony. These recordings represent the earliest known oral histories of the Holocaust, which are available through this online archive.

World Memory Project

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has gathered millions of historical documents containing details about survivors and victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution during World War II. In partnership with Ancestry.com the two organizations have created the World Memory Project to allow the public to help make the records from the Museum searchable by name online for free. Getting started is as simple as downloading a free software program and then typing details from a record image into a database that will then become searchable online.