The Holocaust and Other Genocides Research

Database of Holocaust survivor and victim names.

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an international epicenter of Holocaust-related research. NARA holds millions of records created or received by the U.S. Government during and after World War II that document Nazi war crimes, wartime refugee issues, and activities and investigations of U.S. Government agencies involved in the identification and recovery of looted assets (including gold, art, and cultural property)-as well as captured German records used as evidence at the International Military Tribunal (IMT) at Nuremberg, U.S. military tribunals at Nuremberg, and U.S. Army courts.

The Holocaust Database for JewishGen.

The Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names is a unique international endeavor initiated and led by Yad Vashem. Its primary aim is to recover the names and reconstruct the life stories of each individual victim of the Shoah. To date an estimated four and a half million Jews murdered in the Shoah have been commemorated in the database.