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Information about 30,000 Holocaust Victims Now Searchable

 

The Museum and Ancestry.com announced today that information on 30,000 victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution is now available online at Ancestry.com and can be searched at no cost. The information, from four Museum collections, relates to the experiences of displaced Jewish orphans in Germany; Czech Jews deported to the Terezin concentration camp and camps in occupied Poland; and French victims of Nazi persecution.  
Since the World Memory Project was launched in May 2011, more than than 2,100 contributors from around the world have indexed almost 650,000 records. They completed in a few months what would have taken the Museum alone many years to do.
“World Memory Project contributors are helping Holocaust survivors and their families learn the truth about what happened to loved ones,” says Lisa Yavnai, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum WMP project leader.  “It is an incredible gift that anyone can give to those who survived the horrors of Nazi Germany."  
What World Memory Project contributors are saying:
“I chose to try to make available to the public a few documents from Poland during WWII. I found it to be a very emotional and most privileged moment in my life.”  ─ Valentina, Australia
“I feel privileged and honored to bring historical accuracy and facts to the many families out there today who may not have known, until now, what became of their family members. It was extremely important to me to key in these documents with the utmost care.” – Donna, United States
“…It brought home to me the fact that each of these names had been a person who probably once reached out with their hands to others for help, and for many of them, that help never came… Ultimately, though, I took comfort in the idea that, while he might have been among those who were taken from the world through bigotry and hatred, at least I was helping in a little way to make sure he and others like him were not forgotten.” ─ Kerri, United States
 

 

The Museum and Ancestry.com announced today that information on 30,000 victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution is now available online at Ancestry.com and can be searched at no cost. The information, from four Museum collections, relates to the experiences of displaced Jewish orphans in Germany; Czech Jews deported to the Terezin concentration camp and camps in occupied Poland; and French victims of Nazi persecution.  

Since the World Memory Project was launched in May 2011, more than than 2,100 contributors from around the world have indexed almost 650,000 records. They completed in a few months what would have taken the Museum alone many years to do.

"World Memory Project contributors are helping Holocaust survivors and their families learn the truth about what happened to loved ones," says Lisa Yavnai, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum WMP project leader. "It is an incredible gift that anyone can give to those who survived the horrors of Nazi Germany."  

What World Memory Project contributors are saying:

"I chose to try to make available to the public a few documents from Poland during WWII. I found it to be a very emotional and most privileged moment in my life." -- Valentina, Australia

"I feel privileged and honored to bring historical accuracy and facts to the many families out there today who may not have known, until now, what became of their family members. It was extremely important to me to key in these documents with the utmost care." -- Donna, United States

"...It brought home to me the fact that each of these names had been a person who probably once reached out with their hands to others for help, and for many of them, that help never came... Ultimately, though, I took comfort in the idea that, while he might have been among those who were taken from the world through bigotry and hatred, at least I was helping in a little way to make sure he and others like him were not forgotten." -- Kerri, United States