Name Search contains many different electronic lists of Holocaust victims, both those who survived and those who perished. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is developing this system to facilitate access to documentation about Holocaust victims and to preserve their memory. The USHMM will continue to develop Name Search by adding new lists to the database and providing new functions including expanded search capabilities, soundexing, and place name thesauri will be added. As a work in process, the Registry of Survivors anticipates errors, inaccuracies, and omissions in the Name Search System and appreciates all comments and suggestions.
Remember, not all lists reveal whether an individual survived or perished in the Holocaust.
The Name Search system was designed to give you access to the names of Holocaust victims and survivors no matter where they originally appear. By searching the Name Search system you are searching many different lists simultaneously. Keep in mind the following as you work:
Name Search does NOT contain a comprehensive list of all survivors or victims of the Holocaust. Instead it can tell you where a name you seek can be found in different sources.
Along with each name displayed in the Name Search system, you will see the name of the list from which it came.
New lists will continue to be added to the system.
Each list is different from the others and often was created for an entirely different purpose. Some lists reflect all the names that appear on a historic Holocaust document. Other lists reflect the results of research conducted by an individual or organization.
Read the description available for each list to best understand the context in which a name appears.
Finding the same name more than once might mean that an individual's name appears on more than one document. For example, Joseph Levi's name might appear on a list of Jews deported to Auschwitz and in a memorial book for Jews from Berlin who perished in the Holocaust.
Many of the lists found in Name Search were not created by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. The data in the Name Search system represents the combined efforts of many organizations and individuals who seek to record and preserve the names of Holocaust victims.
