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About Name Search

Name Search contains many different electronic lists of Holocaust victims, including both those who survived and those who perished. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum developed this system to facilitate access to documentation about Holocaust victims and to preserve their memory.

The Survivors Registry developed Name Search to give researchers access to the names of Holocaust survivors and victims found in numerous sources. Name Search looks for data in many different lists simultaneously. Though far from exhaustive, the lists on which Name search is based provide information about Holocaust victims all over Europe.

• Name Search does NOT contain a comprehensive list of all survivors or victims of the Holocaust. No such list exists.
• Along with each name displayed in the Name Search system, you will see information about the list from which it came.
• New lists continue to be added to the system as they come to the Museum.
• Name Search contains a variety of list types. Some lists show all the names that appear on a historic Holocaust document while others exhibit the results of research conducted by an individual or organization.
• The source description for each list explains the context in which a name appears.
• Finding the same name more than once usually means 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.