USHMM Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database

USHMM Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database (see Holocaust Children Studies)

Overview

The USHMM Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database is a comprehensive collection of names of Holocaust Survivors and Victims, made of several lists, including:

• Counted Remnant

Electronic data regarding survivors published in 1946 by the Central Committee of Jews in Bavaria, in Munich, Germany. Index includes name, place of birth, last known location, and year of birth.

• USHMM Oral History Collection -- Names from the Oral History Collection

Names from oral history interviews in USHMM collections through April 25, 2016. Data includes names, dates of birth, and links to full records of the Oral History Collection, which provide videos or audios accessible online.

• Holocaust Survivor Testimonies, Poland / Relacje ocalalych z Holocaustu

Contains approximately 7,000 Holocaust survivor testimonies. Testimonies describe the destruction of an entire Jewish community during World War II. From the autumn of 1944 to the summer of 1947, Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna (Central Jewish Historical Commission, Poland) developed a questionnaire and trained interviewers to record the testimonies. Survivors came forward from bunkers in the forests, from partisan units, and from newly liberated concentration and labor camps wishing to relate to the Commission's field workers what they or their families had endured during the occupation. In some cases, the survivor wrote down his/her own statements. The materials in this collection have been and continue to be used as evidence in the trials of war crimes.

• Polish Children Survivors (JewishGen)

Electronic data regarding Polish Jewish surviving children. Created from information in Survivors of the Holocaust in Poland: a Portrait Based on Jewish Community Records, 1944-1947, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1994, USHMM Library call number DS135.P6 D63 1994

• Windermere Children -- Theresienstadt -- Survivor children airlifted from Theresienstadt "camp-ghetto" to England post-war

This index is a combination of two lists found in the International Tracing Service (3.1.1.3 folder 190) of children who were airlifted from the Czech Republic to England in August of 1945. One of the lists only includes name and date of birth. The other list includes name, date and place of birth, and nationality. This second list often contains an original entry and a final entries for this information. Children often changed their names and dates of birth as they arrived in England. The general pattern was to make themselves younger (presumably their real age) --survival in camps/ghettos was better if they claimed to be older.

• Australia -- Second of two electronic indices of the emigration case files of the Australia Jewish Welfare and Relief Society]

Data includes names, sex, dates, nationalities and addresses.