Speaker: Jude C Richter,  Ph.D.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database makes millions of records about individual survivors and victims of the Holocaust available to researchers from the comfort of their own homes. The indexed collections represent only a fraction of the information that can be found in the Museum’s collections. Using case studies from the Kiev Region in the Soviet Union and the Wołyn Voivodeship in Poland, this presentation will demonstrate how researchers can use collections that the Museum has made available online to find information about their families in interwar Europe.

Bio:

Jude C. Richter holds a Ph.D. in Russian history from Indiana University. From 2002 through 2006 he worked for the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany conducting research in the collections of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). Since 2006 he has worked for USHMM. He is a Research and Reference Specialist in the Museum's Survivors and Victims Resource Center. In this role, he searches the International Tracing Service (ITS) Digital Archive and other Museum collections to document individuals' experiences during the Holocaust for survivors, their families, and the families of victims.

Meeting:

The January meeting will be on Zoom