Holocaust Genealogy

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• Die Ausburgerung deutscher Staatsangehoriger 1933-45 nach den im Reichsanzeiger veroffentlichten Listen. [Expatriation Lists as Published in the “Reichsanzeiger” 1933-45.] Edited by Michael Hepp. Munchen: K.G. Saur, 1985-1988. 3v.
• Avotaynu. Teaneck, NJ: G. Mokotoff, 1985-.
• Baxter, Angus. In Search of Your European Roots: A Complete Guide To Tracing Your Ancestors in Every Country in Europe. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Col, c1994.
• Beider, Alexander. A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames From the Kingdom of Poland. Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., 1996.
• Beider, Alexander. A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames From the Russian Empire. Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., 1993.
• Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. Washington, D. C.: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in cooperation with the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, 1996. 2v.
• Death Books From Auschwitz: Remnants. Edited by State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Munchen: K.G. Saur, 1995. 3v.
• Deportationsbuch der von Frankfurt am Main aus gewaltsam verschickten Juden in den Jahren 1941 bis 1944. Frankfurt am Main: Judische Gemeinde Frankfurt am Main, 1984.
• Edelheit, Abraham J. Bibliography on Holocaust Literature. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1986-.
• Edelheit, Hershel. A World In Turmoil: An Integrated Chronology of the Holocaust and World War II. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
• Edlund, Thomas Kent. The German Minority Census of 1939: An Introduction and Register. Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., 1996.
• The Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy. Edited by Arthur Kurzweil and Miriam Weiner. Northvale, NJ: J. Aronson, 1991-.
• Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. Edited by Israel Gutman. New York: Macmillan Pub. Co., 1990. 4v.
• Feig, Konnilyn G. Hitler’s Death Camps: The Sanity of Madness. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1981.
• Freidman, Nathan Zebi. Otsar ha-rabanim. B’nei Brak, 1975.
• Gedenkbuch: Haftlinge des Konzentrationslagers Bergen-Belsen. Niedersachsische Landeszentrale fur politische Bildung Gedenkstatte Bergen-Belsen, 1995.
• Gedenkbuch: Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland, 1933- 1945. Koblenz: Bundesarchiv, 1986.
• Genealogical Resources in the New York Metropolitan Area. Edited by Estelle M. Guzik. New York: Jewish Genealogical Society, 1989.
• Getto Litzmannstadt: Bilanz eines nationalsozialistischen Verbrechens, mit Deportations- und Totenlisten der aus dem Altreich stammenden Juden. Frankfurt am Main: a. Diamant, 1986.
• Die Grunewald-Rampe: Die Deportation der Berliner Juden. Berlin: Edition Colloquium, 1993.
• Guggenheimer, Heinrich W. (Heinrich Walter). Jewish Family Names and Their Origins: An Etymological Dictionary. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav Pub. House, 1992.
• Hamburger judische Opfer des Nationalsozialismus: Gedenkbuch. Hamburg: Staatsarchiv Hamburg, 1995.
• International Tracing Service. Vorlaufiges Verzeichnis der Konzentrationslager. Arolsen: 1969. 2v.
• Die Judischen Opfer des Nationalsozialismus in Hamburg. Hamburg: Der Senat, 1965.
• Judisches Adressbuch fur Gross-Berlin. Berlin: Arani Verlag, 1994.
• Judisches Komitee fur Theresienstadt. Totenbuch Theresienstadt. Wien: 1971.
• Kagan, Berl. Jewish Cities, Towns and Villages in Lithuania: Until 1918. New York: B. Kohen, 1991.
• Kaufman, Isidor. American Jews in World War II: The Story of 550,000 Fighters for Freedom. New York: Dial Press, 1947.
• Klarsfeld, Serge. Memorial to the Jews Deported From France, 1942- 1944: Documentation of the Deportation of the Victims of the Final Solution in France. New York: Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, 1983.
• Kurzweil, Arthur. From Generation to Generation: How to Trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Family History. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
• Memorial de la deportation des juifs de Belgique. Bruxelles: Union des deportes juifs en Belgique et filles et fils de la deportation; [1982] New York: Beate Klarsfeld Foundation.
• Meshenberg, Michael J. Documents of Our Ancestors: A Selection of Reproducible Genealogy Forms and Tips for Using Them. Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., 1996.
• Migration from the Russian Empire: Lists of Passengers Arriving at the Port of New York. Edited by Ira A. Glazier. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., c1995.
• Mogilanski, Roman. The Ghetto Anthology: A Comprehensive Chronicle of the Extermination of Jewry in Nazi Death Camps and Ghettos in Poland. Los Angeles, CA: American Congress of Jews from Poland, 1985.
• Moktoff, Gary. How to Document Victims and Locate Survivors of the Holocaust. Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., 1995.
• Mokotoff, Gary. Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust. Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., 1991.
• Das Nationalsozialistische Lagersystem (CCP). Edited by Martin Weinmann. Frankfurt am Main: Zweitausendeins, 1990.
• Nevek a Hajdu megyebol kiuzott zsidok nevei = Shemot ha-Yehudim she-gurshu mi-mehoz Haidu be-Hungarhah = Names of the deported Jews from Hajdu county, Hungary. New York: Beate and Serge Klarsfeld Foundation, [1990 or 1991].
• Nevek Munkaszazadok yesztesegei a keleti magyar hadmuveleti teruleteken. [Names of Jewish Victims of Hungarian Labour Battalions.] New York: Beate and Serge Klarsfeld Foundation, [1992]. 2v.
• Nominal Roll of Survivors of Dachau Concentration Camp. [s.l.]: Jewish Infantry Brigade Group.
• Picciotto Fargion, Liliana. Il libro della memoria: gli ebrei deportati dall’Italia (1943-1945). Milano: Mursia, 1991.
• Pinkas Hakehillot: Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities: Rumania, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Holland, Latvia-Estonia, Yugoslavia. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1969-.
• Register of Jewish Survivors: Lists of Jews Rescued in Different European Countries. Jerusalem: The Jewish Agency for Palestine, Search Bureau for Missing Relatives, 1945.
• Reichsbund Judischer Frontsoldaten. Die judischen Gefallenen des deutschen Heeres, der deutschen Marine und der deutschen Schutztruppen, 1914-1918. Berlin: Der Schild, 1932.
• Rhode, Harold, and Sallyann Amdur Sack. Jewish Vital Records, Revision Lists and Other Jewish Holdings in the Lithuanian Archives. Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., 1996.
• Rosenstein, Emanuel and Neil Rosenstein. Latter Day Leaders, Sages and Scholars: Born Between Late 18th and Early 20th Century: Bibliographical Index Alphabetized by First Name, Surname and Town. Elizabeth, NJ: Computer Center for Jewish Genealogy, 1983.
• Rottenberg, Dan. Finding Our Fathers: A Guidebook to Jewish Genealogy. New York: Random House, 1977.
• Sack, Sallyann Amdur. A Guide to Jewish Genealogical Research in Israel. Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., 1995.
• Sack, Sallyann Amdur. The Russian Consular Records Index and Catalog. New York: Garland, 1987.
• Schepansky, Israel. Luah ha-shoah shel yahadut Polin / Holocaust Calendar of Polish Jewry. New York, 1974.
• Shapiro, Jacob Leib. Mishpahot atikot be-Yisrael. Israel: Huliyot, [1981].
• Sharit Ha-Platah. Munich: Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Bavaria, 1946. 5v.
• Spier, Arthur. The Comprehensive Hebrew Calendar: Twentieth to Twenty-second Century, 5660-5860, 1900-2100. Jerusalem; New York: Feldheim Publishers, 1986.
• Tapper, Lawrence F. A Biographical Dictionary of Canadian Jewry, 1909-1914: From the Canadian Jewish Times. Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., [1992].
• Wininger, Salomon. Grosse judische National-Biographie. Nendeln: Kraus, 1979. 7v.
• Zubatsky, David S. Jewish Genealogy: A Sourcebook of Family Histories and Genealogies. New York: Garland Pub., 1984-1990. 2v.
• Zubatsky, David S., and Irwin M. Berent. Sourcebook For Jewish Genealogies and Family Histories. Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., 1996.