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Doing Jewish Genealogy, Doing History in the Nazi Camps: Home

Part of the Telling Family Stories: Jews, Genealogy, and History Project/Legacy Heritage Fund Grant; co-sponsored by Congregation Kehillat Israel Adult Education

Useful Links and Websites

Presentation by Kenneth Waltzer, Professor and Director, MSU Jewish Studies

Yad Vashem (general)
Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names (Yad Vashem)
testimonies left at Yad Vashem about Holocaust victims (forms), in English and Hebrew mainly
Shoah Related Lists Database (Yad Vashem)
these included transport lists and other documents
JewishGen Holocaust Database
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Collections and Archives
USHMM Name Lists Catalog Search
Lodz Ghetto Database (JewishGen)
JewishGen Yizkor Book Project
Jewish Gen Yizkor Book Necrology Database
U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 (Ancestry.com)
National Archives at St Louis, Military Personnel Records

Library Databases

Need to be at MSU Libraries or have MSU ID to use off-campus; CADL and ELPL also offer access.

Library Contact

Deborah Margolis
Reference/Collections Librarian;
Liaison to Jewish Studies
517/884-0892
deborahm@msu.edu