TOP: The Museum receives thousands of microfilmed documents each year. BOTTOM: Documents and photographs on orphan survivors of the Holocaust in Romania.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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THE MUSEUM CURRENTLY HOLDS,
among its major collections, more than three million pages of documents from France, one million pages of documents from Romania, one million pages from the Netherlands, one million pages from Poland, and 300,000 pages from Croatia. Thousands of pages of Jewish community documents were discovered in the Osobiy Archives, collections seized by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II. In addition to Gestapo, Nazi party, and ministry records, the Osobiy Archives house files from the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens Berlin (Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Belief, Berlin), Jewish community records from Austria, Greece, and Croatia, and archives from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the World Jewish Congress in Paris.
These diverse collections, together with core holdings of Nazi records and access to American and foreign documentation at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), make the Center a unique facility for undertaking research on the Holocaust. The use of these archival materials by Center and visiting scholars is already having a significant impact on the field of Holocaust studies, in publications, public forums, and in the way that the Holocaust is being taught on American campuses.
While not all collections are fully catalogued, all are available for research and offer unique opportunities to expand our insights into this tragic episode of human history. The Center has compiled an Archival Guide to the Collections of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum with information on record group, relevant subcollections, subject contents, dates of documents, languages used, and the volume of each collection.
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