Websites for Jewish Genealogy

I recently watched a webinar on researching Jewish ancestors and discovered these helpful websites: 

• JewishGen https://www.jewishgen.org/ 
• FamilySearch keyword search for Jewish; or place search 
• JRI-Poland https://jri-poland.org/jriplweb.htm 
• Yad Vashem (Holocaust victims) https://yvng.yadvashem.org/ 
• SephardicGen https://sephardicgen.org/ 
• Center for Jewish History https://www.cjh.org/ 
• American Jewish Archives http://americanjewisharchives.org/ 
• New York Public Library – Dorot Jewish Division   https://www.nypl.org/locations/divisions/jewish-division 

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Holocaust Research - New Card Indexes Online

The International Tracing Service (ITS) is an archive and a center for documenting National Socialist persecution and the liberated survivors and is located in Germany.  ITS recently published two new card indexes online; the Index of the Reich Association of Jews In Germany and material on death camp marches.  You will also find an artifact tracing service. It’s goal is to reunite artifacts from concentration camps with the families of the owner. Included are digital images of the indexes and artifacts.  

https://www.its-arolsen.org/en/press/press/press-detail/news/detail/News/card-index-on-jewish-victims-of-nazi-persecution-now-online/

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Holocaust Victims Database Aims to Restore Lost Identities

More than 2,100 volunteers around the world who have signed on to the World Memory Project, a joint effort by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry.com, to create the world's largest online searchable database of records related to victims of the Holocaust.

It's a massive undertaking: The museum has more than 170 million documents about victims of Nazi persecution, including Nazi concentration camp records and transport lists, records created by Jewish communities and U.S. government documents about people displaced by the war who later emigrated to the United States.

The project, which began in May, recruits volunteers to put names and other key words from the documents into an online database, which is then searchable by anyone in the world. The first data sets became searchable this month.

You can read more about this project on the CNN web site at
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/26/us/holocaust-world-memory-project/
 
 
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