Digital files were received from Arolsen Archives The JDC Archives Names Indexing Project has reached a new milestone with the completion of a two-year project to create records for more than 30,000 index cards from the post-World War II Paris office of JDC’s...
JDC aided Jews forced out of Germany in 1938 In its continuing collaboration with JRI-Poland, the JDC Archives is pleased to announce that it has recently shared the data from its list of Jewish Refugees in Polish Border Areas, 1938-1939. This 120-page list, found in...
The JDC Archives is delighted to announce a new collaboration with MyHeritage, a leading online service for genealogical research, family history, and DNA matching. MyHeritage has included the data from several sets of the JDC Archives’ Displaced Persons and Refugee...
Postwar office assisted tens of thousands The JDC Archives is excited to announce the completion of a major indexing project that for the first time makes available the names of those who received emigration assistance from JDC in Czechoslovakia in the immediate...
The importance of photos in genealogical research Genealogy is more than just names on a family tree. It’s more than birth dates, geographical locations, or immigration dates. Behind the facts and figures are the individuals who experienced life off the page. Yeshiva...
Paris and Prague materials provide answers to a 70-year-old mystery In April, the JDC Archives received an online inquiry from a woman seeking information about her parents. Although the inquiry is typical of those we receive, this time it sparked an effort out of a...