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:

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

• Holocaust Survivor Testimonies, Poland / Relacje ocalalych z Holocaustu

• 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]