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April 2, 2021
1. Requests for Palestine Certificates for people in Hungarian-speaking lands, 1944 (ID: 49494)
Description: In 1944, three non-governmental organizations in New York, the World Jewish Congress, the Zionist Organization of America, and the International Relief and Rescue Committee, compiled lists of people in Hungary and Hungarian-speaking lands that wanted to immigrate to Palestine. The lists are comprised of nearly 9,400 people in about 2600 families from Hungarian-speaking lands in present-day Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Slovakia and Serbia. About a third of the people lived in Budapest, a third in the rest of present-day Hungary, and a third in territory occupied by Hungary.
The lists identify families and contain names, ages, and towns. In many cases, they also contain detailed descriptions of extended families (cousins, in-laws, etc.) and street addresses. Early lists were sent directly to the Jewish Agency for Palestine. After the creation of the US Government’s War Refugee Board, the lists were sent to the Board for forwarding to the representative of the Jewish Agency in Istanbul. The lists are in the records of the War Refugee Board at the F.D. Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, New York, and appear online in three pdf files as follows:
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/_resources/images/wrb/wrb0460.pdf (folder 1)
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/_resources/images/wrb/wrb0461.pdf (folder 2)
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/_resources/images/wrb/wrb0462.pdf (folder 3).
Professor John M. Hoenig found the PDF files and indexed the names to compile this searchable name list. Levente Olosz contributed to the creation of the computerized database. -
March 22, 2021
2. Traunstein Displaced Person Camp Records (ID: 49493)
Description: Traunstein, located in southeast Bavaria, was the site of a former Dachau subcamp. In 1946 it was converted into a Displaced Persons (DP) camp for Jewish refugees, primarily from Eastern Europe. During the camp’s existence, children were born in the camp and they are included in this collection.
Traunstein was intended as a temporary stopover as survivors sought to emigrate or decided to return to their countries of origin. The “population” varied in number during its use. It was limited to Jews from all over Europe, the largest places of origin were Poland and Hungary, due to anti-Semitic problems in other camps. It remained open until 1949.
This 1947 collection consists of 11,634 records of names of adults and children, date and place of birth, prewar nationality and residence and other available comments. -
January 5, 2021
3. The St. Louis: Full Passenger List and Associated Documents (ID: 49482)
Description: In May 1939, the German liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, Germany, to Havana, Cuba, carrying 937 passengers, almost all Jewish refugees. The Cuban government refused to allow the ship to land, and the United States and Canada were unwilling to admit the passengers. The St. Louis passengers were finally permitted to land in Western European countries rather than return to Nazi Germany. Great Britain, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands each admitted a percentage of the passengers upon their return to Europe in June 1939. Many passengers were able to obtain immigration visas and leave for the United States before the German invasion of Western Europe in May 1940, but 254 passengers were killed in the Holocaust.
In the spring of 1996, USHMM staff launched a project to trace the fate of the 937 passengers of the St. Louis after they were dispersed to England, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands in the summer of 1939. The results of this effort can be viewed in this collection. Entries include passenger name, date of birth, place of birth, passenger ID, other family members, Holocaust fate, destination of emigration, etc., and associated documents. -
November 5, 2020
4. Relacje ocalalych z Holocaustu (Sygn. 301) (ID: 49480)
Title (In English): Holocaust Survivor Testimonies : Catalogue : Jewish Historical Institute Archives, Poland, Record Group 301
Creator: Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce. Komisja Historyczna Central Jewish Historical Commission
Description: Contains approximately 7,000 Holocaust survivor testimonies. Testimonies describe the destruction of an entire Jewish community during World War II. From the autumn of 1944 to the summer of 1947, Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna (Central Jewish Historical Commission, Poland) developed a questionnaire and trained interviewers to record the testimonies. Survivors came forward from bunkers in the forests, from partisan units, and from newly liberated concentration and labor camps wishing to relate to the Commission's field workers what they or their families had endured during the occupation. In some cases, the survivor wrote down his/her own statements. The materials in this collection have been and continue to be used as evidence in the trials of war crimes.
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August 21, 2020
5. NOMINAL ROLL OF POLISH - JEWISH ORPHANS (ID: 49477)
Description: List of some of the 750 Jewish orphans sent from Lodz to Prague in August of 1946, as well as the names of group leaders. Includes group number, name, birthplace, and year of birth.
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August 20, 2020
6. [Unaccompanied children repatriated to Poland] (ID: 49476)
Description: List of children, who at one point were transported to Italy under the care of the Red Cross. Most of the children were subsequently repatriated to Poland, and some returned to families. The names are divided into 5 separate lists:
-Unaccompanied children repatriated to Poland on 26 June, 1946
-Children with near relatives repatriated to Poland on 11th June, 1946
-Unaccompanied children repatriated to Poland on 8th November, 1946
-Children registered in Camp Magdalen as living with parents
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August 19, 2020
7. RESULTS OF ENQUIRIES (ID: 49475)
Description: Results of tracing requests. Includes name of person being asked after, age, address, and name of possible family members.
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August 19, 2020
8. LIST OF PEOPLE BELIEVED TO BE IN GERMANY (ID: 49474)
Description: List of displaced persons, believed to be in Germany, who were being looked for by family members. Includes name of person being inquired after, their last known address, as well as name and address of enquirer.
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August 19, 2020
9. The following list of names has been received by this Officer giving particulars of Polish girls cared for by the Swiss Red Cross Home, La Rochelle, Vaumarcus (ID: 49473)
Creator: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, European Regional Office
Description: List of girls who were under the care of the Swiss Red Cross. Includes name and date of birth.
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August 19, 2020
10. The following list of names has been received by this Officer giving particulars of Polish boys cared for by the Swiss Red Cross at Felsenegg House, Zugerberg (ID: 49472)
Creator: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, European Regional Office
Description: List of boys who were under the care of the Swiss Red Cross. Includes name and date of birth.
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August 18, 2020
11. [Documents related to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's work in Poland] (ID: 49471)
Creator:
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, Mission to Poland
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, Mission to Poland, Welfare and Repatriation Division
Description: The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was created at a 44-nation conference at the White House on November 9, 1943. Its mission was to provide economic assistance to European nations after World War II and to repatriate and assist the refugees who would come under Allied control.
This grouping contains documents relating to UNRRA's work in Poland. Topics in this grouping includes, but are not limited to: requests for repatriation to Poland, requests for repatriation from Poland to various countries, assistance for repatriation of family members, repatriates asking for return of items left behind, requests for documentation, and unaccompanied children. -
August 5, 2020
12. Unvollständige Liste österreichischer und deutscher Häftlinge, die im KLM im Zeitraum von Ende 1942 bis 1945 verstorben sind (ID: 49468)
Title (In English): List of Austrian and German prisoners who died in Mauthausen from the end of 1942 through 1945
Creator: KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen Mauthausen Memorial
Description: This is an incomplete list of Austrian and German prisoners in the KL Mauthausen, who died in the period from late 1942 to 1945. Records contain name, date of birth, place of birth, prisoner number and category, date of death, and place of death.
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June 5, 2020
13. List of Jews Residing in Riga (ID: 49467)
Description: This collection prepared by the World Jewish Congress provides a list of over 3,400 Jewish survivors residing in Riga in 1946. The information consists of name, fathers’ name, year of birth, and local address.
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March 30, 2020
14. Reservations regarding the issue of foreign passports, 1936-1937 (ID: 49465)
Creator: Starostwo Grodzkie Łódzkie
Description: Contains a list of cases and correspondence regarding individual persons who applied for foreign passports from the Office of the District Starosta in Łódz. Some documents have photographs.
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March 17, 2020
15. Passports with photographs, correspondence, and questionnaires relating to issue of passports to Polish citizens living in Germany, 1924-1929 (ID: 49464)
Creator: Poland. Konsulat Generalny (Leipzig, Germany)
Description: This is Series One in the “Selected Records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Leipzig” (Konsulat Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Lipsku (Sygn.479)) containing files relating to six people.
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March 3, 2020
16. UNACCOMPANIED CHILDREN NOMINATED FOR SWITZERLAND, Nominal Roll, 19 October 1945 (ID: 49457)
Creator: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Description: List of unaccompanied children to be sent to Switzerland. Includes name, nationality, religion, date of birth, current location, and notes about their family members.
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March 3, 2020
17. Liste der in Davos, Pension Aela, befindlichen Buchenwald-Kinder, welche vom Schweiz Roten Kreuz, Kinderhilfe übernommen werden (ID: 49456)
Title (In English): List of children from Buchenwald currently in Davos, Pension Aela, who were taken by the Swiss Red Cross, Children's Aid
Creator: Schweizerischen Rotes Kreuz, Kinderhilfe Swiss Red Cross, Children's Aid
Description: Includes name, nationality, date of birth, and date of arrival at Davos.
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January 6, 2020
18. The Committee of Elders in Częstochowa records and the daily record sheets of the Jewish police in the Czestochowa Ghetto 1941-1942 (ID: 49451)
Creator: Rada Starszych w Czestochowie
Description: Records from the Committee of Elders in Częstochowa include correspondence with the Trade and Commerce Section of the Judenrat, correspondence with the Jewish Police, reports and Jewish police letters to the Presidium of the Jewish Council, notes concerning personal, disciplinary matters and name lists of the Jewish policemen, and the book of "events and orders" of the Jewish Police.
Names are extracted from the records and documents. Each name record includes the page(s) of the name appeared and a translation file of the page(s). Multiple-page records also include a summary file indicating the scanned document file name and matching translation file, as well as the summary of the document.
This is an ongoing project. Currently, only the last names A to B are available. -
December 4, 2019
19. Szeged, Hungary Deportation List (ID: 49448)
Creator: Szeged Jewish Community
Description: There were 4,161 Jews living in Szeged in 1941. After the German occupation (March 19, 1944), the Jews were confined to a ghetto with the Jews from surrounding villages.
On June 25, 27, and 28, 1944, the Szeged ghetto was liquidated. Three trains, containing approximately 8,500 people, departed from Szeged, Hungary. The first train went to Auschwitz where most of the people were murdered. The second train was uncoupled, with half going to Auschwitz and a half ending at the Strasshof Labor Camp outside of Vienna. The third train went to Strasshof, where some of the people survived.
This database of Jewish deportees from Szeged was most probably written by the council of the Szeged Jewish Community in between 10-31st May 1944. It lists all Jewish residents of Szeged who by that time had an address there. It does not list Jews living in surrounding towns. The deportation list contains names, in some cases maiden names, the mother's name, place and year of birth, occupation and the address.
This database also contains maiden names of 700 women on the deportation list, which were added by Kathy Glatter through her research on a Hungarian genealogist website macse.hu.
The information contained in this database was made available through cataloging, indexing and digitization projects of the entire Szeged Jewish Community archive in 2018-2019. -
October 24, 2019
20. Szeged, Hungary Deportation Survivors (ID: 49350)
Creator: Szeged Jewish Community
Description: There were 4,161 Jews living in Szeged, Hungary in 1941. After the German occupation (March 19, 1944), the Jews were confined to a ghetto with the Jews from surrounding villages.
On June 25, 27, and 28, 1944, the Szeged ghetto was liquidated. Three trains, containing approximately 8,500 people, departed from Szeged. The first train went to Auschwitz where most of the people were murdered. The second train was uncoupled, with half going to Auschwitz and a half ending at the Strasshof Labor Camp outside of Vienna. The third train went to Strasshof, where some of the people survived.
This collection contains about 1,500 individual cardboards with personal information about the deportation survivors, where they were during the war, and all their family members.
The information contained in this database was made available through cataloging, indexing and digitization projects of the entire Szeged Jewish Community archive in 2018-2019. -
August 29, 2019
21. [Documents related to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's work in China] (ID: 49240)
Creator:
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, China Office
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Description: The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was created at a 44-nation conference at the White House on November 9, 1943. Its mission was to provide economic assistance to European nations after World War II and to repatriate and assist the refugees who would come under Allied control.
This grouping contains documents relating to UNRRA's work in the Philippines. The topics covered by the grouping includes, but is not limited to: repatriation requests, arrangements for repatriation, reunification of families, care for Displaced Persons, and resettlement of refugees. -
July 11, 2019
22. The German Towns Project (ID: 48805)
Description: In the 1960s, the International Tracing Service (ITS. Now Arolsen Archives) in Bad Arolsen, Germany wrote letters to mayors and other officials of West German counties and towns, requesting lists of Jewish inhabitants in 1933 and the fate of these Jews, if known. The resulting I.T.S collection (1.2.5.1) includes reports created by these local towns.
The information on each individual varies in detail. In almost all cases, dates and places of birth, as well as dates of death, where known, are listed. (In some cases street addresses were provided, but these have not been entered into the database). Where it was known that an individual had been deported, this is noted, though a check of other material indicates that the compilers were not aware that many persons on the lists had been deported. Accordingly, researchers should always check other sources of information, such as the German Government's Gedenkbuch, before concluding that a person had not been deported. -
April 11, 2019
23. Anbei werd Blutmaterial zur Untersuchung auf Rest N, Na Cl, Takata-Ara, Vitamin C eingesandt (ID: 48586)
Title (In English): Enclosed are blood samples for testing for residual Nitrogen, Salt, Takata Ara (liver test), and Vitamin C
Description: Includes prisoner number and name.
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April 11, 2019
24. Anbei werden Blutmaterial zur Untersuchung auf eingesandt u. zw.: (ID: 48585)
Title (In English): Enclosed are blood samples for examination.
Description: Includes prisoner number and name.
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April 11, 2019
25. Anbei werden Rachenabstriche zur Untersuchung auf Scharlach eingesandt u. zw.: (ID: 48584)
Title (In English): Enclosed are throat swabs sent for examination for scarlet fever:
Description: Includes prisoner number and name.
