Jewish Genealogical Society of Canada (Toronto)

Peter W. Lande

Sources of information for Holocaust name lists in North America, Europe and Israel. This material is from our Holocaust Education Week meeting November 7, 2007. Download Peter Lande's Holocaust Research Information.

Resources in Canadian Archival Repositories

Canadian Jewish Congress Archives
75 survivors' videotaped interviews; United Restitution Organization records (11,500 claims case files); JIAS records; Post-war Orphans Immigration Project; Landsmanshaften and Survivor's Association files; United Relief Agencies records ( Interned refugees, lists, case files), etc.

Holocaust Education and Memorial Centre of Toronto
400 survivors' videotaped interviews, 1000 books, memoirs.

Holocaust Literature Research Institute , University of Western Ontario
650 narratives, bibliography of over 2000 witness accounts.

Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada
Survivors' taped interviews, related research material, photos, documents, etc.

Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre
Approx. 50,000 artifacts, documents and photos, 400 survivors' video- & audio-taped interviews.

Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society for Education and Remembrance
132 survivors' videotaped interviews, photos, documents; extensive library.

International Archival Repositories

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
53 taped interviews with survivors from Winnipeg; files of the United Restitution Organization Office, Toronto; restitution claims re: Germany, Hungary, Austria, confiscation of jewels, etc.

Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority

Contains the world’s largest repository of information on the Holocaust. Yad Vashem, Jerusalem is a leader in Shoah education, commemoration, research and documentation.