The Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is seeking the names of all Holocaust Survivors – whether or not currently living – in order to record their experiences for future generations, assist survivors and their families in attempts to trace missing relatives and friends, and provide reference to scholars of the Holocaust, genealogists and members of the public. Established in 1981 by the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors as a national registry to document the lives of survivors who came to the United States after World War II, the Registry now includes over 200,000 records related to survivors and their families from around the world.
The Museum honors as survivors any persons, Jewish or non-Jewish, who were displaced, persecuted, or discriminated against due to the racial, religious, ethnic, social, and political policies of the Nazis and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945. In addition to former inmates of concentration camps, ghettos, and prisons, this definition includes, among others, people who were refugees or were in hiding. Inclusion in the Registry is voluntary and contact information will not be made public. Family members can register survivors posthumously.
Survivors registration forms are available in the following languages: English, Hrvatski, Čeština, Nederlands, Français, Deutsch (doitch), Ελληνικά, Ivrit, Magyar, Italiano, Polski, Português (BR), Русский, Српски (Srpski), Slovaščina, Español, Svenska, Українська, and ייִדיש.
If you would like to update your information please use the Survivor Information Update Form PDF, Online form; 2nd or 3rd Generation Information Update Form PDF, Online form.
If you would like to contact a registered survivor please use the 3rd Party Contact Form
PDF, Online form.
To mail your registration form or to request other information, please contact:
Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center
Registry of Holocaust Survivors
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC 20024-2126
E-mail: registry@ushmm.org
Tel.: (202) 488-6130
Fax: (202) 314-7820
The Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors is located in the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center on the second floor of the Museum. The Resource Center is open to the public from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. every day. The Resource Center is closed on Federal Holidays and Yom Kippur.
The Museum mourns the passing of Benjamin Meed, Holocaust survivor, leader of the survivor community and a founding father of the Museum.
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