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BENJAMIN AND VLADKA MEED
REGISTRY OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
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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.
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In 1981, the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors established a national registry to document the lives of survivors who came to the United States after World War II. The Registry was created to help survivors search for relatives and friends. It now includes over 185,000 records related to survivors and their families. Although most of the survivors who have registered live in North America, the Museum now includes the names of survivors from all backgrounds living all over the world. In April 1993, the Registry was transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
The Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors is located on the second floor of the Museum, where user-friendly touch-screen monitors allow visitors access to the database. The Registry is open to the public seven days a week from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.
The Survivors Registry:
- Seeks to include the names of all Holocaust survivors.
- Facilitates contacts between survivors.
- Collects and displays basic information about survivors.
- Assists survivors and their families in their attempts to trace missing relatives.
To mail your registration form or to request other information, you can contact the Survivors Registry at:
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
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