Those who attend the DC2011 IAJGS conference in August 2011 will have an opportunity to conduct research at three major institutions: the U.S. Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). This […]
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World War II Arrivals in Switzerland
The Geneva (Switzerland) Cantonal Archives has posted a list of 25,604 names of persons who entered Switzerland through Geneva during World War II at <http: //etat.geneve.ch/dt/archives/a_votre_service-liste_refugies-1700. html>. Specific dates are not given. The information for each individual includes name, (including […]
“I Was You”: A True Story
One day back in the 1950s, Irving Spierer, the sole Holocaust survivor of his Hungarian family, was walking down a street in Brooklyn, New York, when a complete stranger—let’s call him Saul Rabinowitz (not his real name), another […]
Holocaust Geographic “How To” for Genealogists
This article first appeared in Mishpocha, the magazine of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington—Ed. Genealogists searching for Holocaust information are accustomed to searching databases for family names of interest. They consult data provided by the many […]
The Holocaust—The Korherr Report
This article is based upon a presentation at the IAJGS Conference in Philadelphia, August 2–6, 2009—Ed. Some months ago, I listened to what was billed as a scholarly approach to the fate of German Jews in the Holocaust. It quickly […]
Holocaust Records – The Search Goes On
During the past 30 years, I have spent considerable time locating records that indicate the fate in the Holocaust—death or survival—of Jews and non-Jews. I recognize that, even more than 60 years after the end of World War II, while […]