Institute Am haZikaron, is a searchable database documenting thousands of victims across 1,500+ settlements in the former Russian Empire. It provides victims' names, historical summaries, newspaper articles, and letters, as well as interactive maps categorized by country.
Note: This website is in Russian, but can be navigated in English using Google Chrome. To search this database, the search terms must be in Cyrillic. Steve Morse's Transliterating Russian to English in One Step is a handy tool for converting English spellings into Russian.
International Committee of the Red Cross, has a searchable database with an extensive collection of records documenting soldiers and civilians who were held as prisoners of war or interned during World War I. It includes millions of individual index cards with information such as name, nationality, camp location, and status. Researchers can search the database to trace the wartime experiences of ancestors, including Jewish soldiers and civilians from across Europe. The database is maintained by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and is an invaluable resource for genealogical and historical research related to World War I.
DC Archives, is a searchable database documenting over a century of global Jewish history and humanitarian aid efforts. It includes millions of pages of records, photographs, and a searchable Names Index with hundreds of thousands of individuals who received assistance from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee since 1914. This resource is especially valuable for genealogists researching Jewish families affected by war, displacement, and relief efforts across Europe and beyond.
Blockade of Leningrad, is a searchable database of ~9 million records of civilians and defenders during the 1941–1944 siege of Leningrad. It is a valuable resource for researchers whose families fled to Leningrad, Russia from Ukraine.
Note: This website is in Russian, but can be navigated in English using Google Chrome. To search this database, the search terms must be in Cyrillic. Steve Morse's Transliterating Russian to English in One Step is a handy tool for converting English spellings into Russian.
Memory of a Nation 1941-1945, is a searchable database featuring ~50 million records, for Soviet military service during World War II. It features millions of digitized original documents, including draft cards, award citations, and hospital records. For Jewish researchers, this is an invaluable tool for tracing ancestors who served in the Red Army, as these records often provide specific biographical details—such as exact birthdates and home addresses in Henichesk—that may not exist in other surviving civil archives.
Note: This website is in Russian, but can be navigated in English using Google Chrome. To search this database, the search terms must be in Cyrillic. Steve Morse's Transliterating Russian to English in One Step is a handy tool for converting English spellings into Russian.
Memory Book of Ukraine (Kherson Region), is searchable database documenting soldiers, partisans, and resistance members from the Kherson Region who died or went missing during World War II. For Jewish genealogy, it serves as a critical record for identifying local servicemen and underground fighters, often providing the final known details of their military unit, fate, and burial location.
Note: This website is in Russian, but can be navigated in English using Google Chrome. To search this database, the search terms must be in Cyrillic. Steve Morse's Transliterating Russian to English in One Step is a handy tool for converting English spellings into Russian.
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