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Archival Collections at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

Cybrary of the Holocaust

Finding Aids: Yizkor Books in the Special Collections Department

List of Yizkor books in the Special Collections Department of the St. Louis County Library.

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 Fold3 is an online repository for original historical documents, combined with the ability for users to make comments, annotations, and upload their own documents.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.

Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

A collection of over 4,200 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust.

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

Names of those who perished in the Holocaust.

How to Document Victims and Locate Survivors of the Holocaust

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

International Tracing Service - Bad Arolsen

Germany. Originally organized to search for non-German persons who had become missing or displaced during the war and to assist separated families in being reunited. It now holds millions of records on concentration camp prisoners, Jews, foreigners in German-controlled territories & displaced persons.

Kindertransport Association

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

Missing Identity Project

Holocaust survivor children still searching for their true identity and threads to their past.

Nadworna, Ukraine

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

NYPL, Dorot Jewish Division, Yizkor (Holocaust Memorial) Books

The New York Public Library's Digital Yizkor Book Viewer has 650 of the 700 postwar yizkor books at The New York Public Library accessible online. Books available in hard copy only are also listed.

One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse

Alternate search functions for many online databases. Includes tools for immigration, census, vital records, calendars, soundex, foreign alphabets, Jewish and Holocaust research.

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

The history of a Polish family scattered by World War Two.

Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation

In 1994, after filming Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg established Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation with an urgent mission: to videotape and preserve the testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses. Today, the Shoah Foundation has collected more than 50,000 eyewitness testimonies in 57 countries and 32 languages, and is committed to ensuring the broad and effective educational use of its archive worldwide.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Washington, Dc.

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.