World War II » The Holocaust

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 Fold3 is an online repository for original historical documents, combined with the ability for users to make comments, annotations, and upload their own documents.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

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.

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.

International Tracing Service

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.

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]

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.

Yad Vashem - The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority

Israel. Commemoration and documentation of the events of the Holocaust, collection, examination, and publication of testimonies to the Holocaust, the collection and memorialization of the names of Holocaust victims, and research and education.