Research an Individual

Who are you? – Requester Information

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Your First/Given Name*

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Your Last/Family Name*

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E-mail Address* (E-mail is the main way we will share the results with you, so please ensure it is accurate.)

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Country*

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State/Territory*

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Province/Region/District (if applicable)

City

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Postal Code

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Address Line 1

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The Museum honors as Survivors any persons, Jewish or non-Jewish, who were displaced, persecuted, or discriminated against due to the racial, religious, ethnic, social, and political policies of the Nazis and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945.

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Are you the child of a Holocaust Survivor or Victim?*

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Review and Submission

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Honorific

Your first/given Name

Your last/family Name

Daytime telephone

E-mail address

Country

State/Province/Territory/Region

Postal code

City

Address line 1

Address line 2

Are you a Holocaust survivor?

Are you the child of a Holocaust survivor or victim?

Priority

First/given name of the individual

Last/family name of the individual

This individual’s maiden name

This individual’s known name variants or aliases

This individual’s birth year

, Birth Year is

Birth month

Birth day of month

This individual’s birth place

This individual’s father’s name

This individual’s mother’s maiden name and given name

This individual’s spouse’s name

This individual’s occupation

This individual’s residence before the war

This individual’s wartime location(s)

Did this individual survive World War II?

Is this individual still living?

Where was this individual after the war?

Did this individual attempt to immigrate to the United States from Germany between 1933 and 1949, or from elsewhere in Europe between 1939 and 1949?

This individual is your

Other relationship to victim

Is there a specific source you would like us to check?

Specific resource name

Have you submitted a research request for this person to USHMM or the Arolsen Archives?

Did you receive a response?

Is this request related to submitting a claim for compensation?

Please provide the name of the compensation program and/or what documentation is required

Does this request involve documentation for the restoration of citizenship for a Holocaust survivor, his or her descendants, or the descendants of a Holocaust victim?

Any other comments or information that may be helpful to our research

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Your research requests are very important to us. The nature of conducting research using both the Arolsen Archives (formerly International Tracing Service) collection and the USHMM collections is highly complex, so we appreciate your patience while we prepare the most thorough and accurate response possible. Please also note that priority is given to requests for living survivors, in particular those requesting documentation in order to receive compensation.

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