Links
Archives, Libraries, and Museums
- American Jewish Archives, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, OH
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Archives of the JDC
- Archive at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex near Brighton
- Auschwitz Jewish Center, Oswiecim, Poland
- Beth Hatefutsoth, the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Tel Aviv, Israel, featuring the Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center
- Bibliothek Albert Einstein, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg
- Bildarchiv Schweizer Juden/ Image Archives Swiss Jews (BASJ)
- The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP) in Jerusalem
- Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine
- Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, featuring an online catalog of their archives, and extensive links
- The Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
- Exilpresse digital: Deutsche Exilzeitschriften 1933-1945
- The Franz Rosenzweig Research Centre, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
- Germania Judaica, Stadtbibliothek Koeln, Cologne, Germany
- Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Institut für jüdische Geschichte Österreichs/ Institute for Jewish History in Austria (INJOEST), St. Pölten
- Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany
- Jewish Museum Frankfurt, Germany
- Jüdisches Museum Schweiz, Basel
- Juedisches Museum Wien, Austria
- Leo Baeck Institute, London, UK
- Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem, Israel
- Leopold Zunz Zentrum zur Erforschung des europaeischen Judentums, University of Halle, Halle, Germany
- Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York, NY
- Memorial Book for the Victims of National-Socialism at the University of Vienna 1938, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum Europaeisch-Juedische Studien, University of Potsdam, Potsdam,Germany
- Museum of Jewish Heritage – a living memorial to the Holocaust, New York, NY
- New York Public Library: Dorot Jewish Division, New York, NY
- Österreichisches Jüdisches Museum, Eisenstadt
- Orpheus Trust – Verein zur Erforschung und Veröffentlichung vertriebener und
vergessener Kunst, Vienna, Austria
- Ratner Center for the Study of Conservative Judaism, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, NY
- Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at NYU Library, New York, NY, featuring an online exhibit, Labor and the Holocaust: The Jewish Labor Committee and the Anti-Nazi Struggle
- Rothschild Archive, London, UK
- Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institut fuer deutsch-juedische Geschichte, University of Duisburg, Duisburg, Germany
- Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies and Asher Library, Chicago, IL
- Stiftung “Neue Synagoge Berlin-Centrum Judaicum”, Berlin, Germany
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
- University of Southampton Libraries, Special Collections, Southhampton, UK, containing significant holdings on German-Jewish emigres and emigre organizations in Britain, as well as a comprehensive database of Jewish archival holdings in the UK
- Wiener Library, London, UK
- Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority, Jerusalem, Israel
- Zentralarchiv zur Erforschung der Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland, Heidelberg, Germany, including Friedshofsdokumentation
- Zentrum fuer Antisemitismusforschung, Technische Universitaet, Berlin, Germany
Cultural Centers, Services and Online Documentations/Exhibitions
- Ashkenaz House, project commemorating the heritage of orthodox German-Jewish communities
- Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY
- Austrian Gedenkdienst
- Compact Memory – Wissenschaftsportal für Jüdische Studien (contains digitized versions of a number of German-Jewish journals and newspapers)
- Foundation for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin
- German Embassy, Washington DC
- German History in Documents and Images – is a comprehensive collection of primary source materials documenting Germany’s political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present from the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC
- Germany Online, the German Information Center of the German Embassy, Washington, DC
- Goethe-Institut New York
- Hörspuren – Excerpts from a variety of interviews illustrate the year 1938 in Vienna, Austria and its importance for Jewish history between ‘Anschluss’ and ‘Kristallnacht’ (a project of Philipp Haydn and Maria Ecker at the Zentrum für Jüdische Kulturgeschichte, Universität Salzburg).
- Immigrant Entrepreneurship – This research project by the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC explores the entrepreneurial and economic capacity of immigrants by investigating the German-American example in the United States, including many Jews
- Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien, Austria
- Jewish Life in Berlin, Germany
- Jews in East Prussia by Ruth Leiserowitz
- Judentum in Europa
- Jüdische Gewerbebetriebe in Berlin 1930-1945, Database of Jewish Businesses in Berlin 1930-1945
- Jüdische Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller in Westfalen, ein Projekt der Universität Paderborn in Zusammenarbeit mit der Literaturkommission für Westfalen (Hartmut Steinecke, Günter Tiggesbäumker, Iris Nölle-Hornkamp)
- Leo Baeck Summer University in Jewish Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin
- A Letter to the Stars
- NS-Medicine in Vienna, a project by the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance
- Nürnberger Videoarchiv der Erinnerung
- Registration by Name: Austrian Victims of the Holocaust
- Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
- Synagogen-Internet-Archiv
- Talmud.de, Jewish communities in Germany
- Treasures from the Jewish Cultural Renaissance in Germany, 1898-1939.
An exhibit of selected works from the I. Edward Kiev Judaica Collection
- Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland
Zentrum für jüdische Kulturgeschichte, Universität Salzburg
Genealogy
Holocaust Claims
- Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
- Holocaust Era Asset Restitution Task Force Project HEART is a nonprofit initiative of the Government of Israel in cooperation with the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI). Project HEART seeks to reach eligible persons, Jewish Holocaust victims and their heirs worldwide, who or whose families owned movable, immovable, or intangible personal property that was confiscated, looted, or forcibly sold in countries governed or occupied by the Nazi forces or Axis powers during the Holocaust era.
- Holocaust Claims Processing Office New York State residents may find information on filing property, insurance, banking and art restitution claims on this site or may file a claim through this office.
Holocaust-era Swiss bank accounts
- Lost Art Internet Database A project of the Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluste, Germany’s central office for the documentation of lost cultural property, which registers cultural objects which as a result of persecution under the Nazi dictatorship and the Second World War were relocated, moved or seized, especially from Jewish owners.
- Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal Project Objects of questionable provenance in American Museums are indexed through this site.
Online Periodicals
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