# Sources to research a particular Jewish girl who died in Ukraine in or near WWII? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 3, 2020, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sources-to-research-a-particular-jewish-girl-who-died-in-ukraine-in-or-near-wwii/845888 "2020-01-03T16:52:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sources-to-research-a-particular-jewish-girl-who-died-in-ukraine-in-or-near-wwii/845888/1 "2020-01-03T16:52:50Z")
A friend has asked me how she might go about locating any additional information on a particular Jewish girl who died in the war. My friend has the name of the girl, and she has an entry in the online “Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database” of the Holocaust Memorial Museum. She appears on “The list of the Jews - sacrifices of German-fascist occupation in Yalta,” 1941-1944. She was 14 and died in I︠A︡lta, Ukraine. My friend has been in email communication with the Museum, but I don’t know what else they’ve sent her. This does seem like the most comprehensive database. But do y’all know of any other databases, archives, etc., that she might search or contact? I’m trying other avenues, too, but heck, all the really smart people hang out here, amirite? Browsing the site is chilling. List after list after list of individuals the Nazis killed… ☹ Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sources-to-research-a-particular-jewish-girl-who-died-in-ukraine-in-or-near-wwii/845888/2 "2020-01-03T17:36:31Z")
The closest thing to a definitive list is at [Yad Vashem](https://yvng.yadvashem.org/index.html?language=en&gclid=CjwKCAiA6bvwBRBbEiwAUER6Jai_blkCqr2n22bC6qTvCCIecTDZZZ5Z4yN1L5B7uALEjJjA8couAhoClOkQAvD_BwE). And, as you know, there is also the [USHM database](https://www.ushmm.org/remember/resources-holocaust-survivors-victims/database-of-holocaust-survivor-and-victim-names). ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sources-to-research-a-particular-jewish-girl-who-died-in-ukraine-in-or-near-wwii/845888/3 "2020-01-03T19:24:10Z")
Also [Jewishgen.org](http://Jewishgen.org). ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sources-to-research-a-particular-jewish-girl-who-died-in-ukraine-in-or-near-wwii/845888/4 "2020-01-03T20:08:35Z")
Thanks, y’all. That’s exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2020, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sources-to-research-a-particular-jewish-girl-who-died-in-ukraine-in-or-near-wwii/845888/5 "2020-01-04T03:40:20Z")
Good luck on your entering the bibliographic wastelands. Don’t forget the Visual/Oral History project founded by Steven Spielberg, now known as the [USC Shoah Foundation.](http://sfi.usc.edu) What I found most extraordinary there is that the thousands of hours of interviews have been indexed to practically every word (you look up a name of a person, town, synagogue, etc. and can find the time-click spot on whomever has mentioned it in the entire project. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2020, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sources-to-research-a-particular-jewish-girl-who-died-in-ukraine-in-or-near-wwii/845888/6 "2020-01-04T14:48:17Z")
Thanks, **Leo Bloom**. The diligence of the people finding, saving, storing, indexing the information on all of these Holocaust sites is staggering. They are taking “never forget” very seriously and putting in thousands of hours of work. Soon all of the survivors of that era will be gone physically, but their information and experiences will still be available. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sources-to-research-a-particular-jewish-girl-who-died-in-ukraine-in-or-near-wwii/845888/7 "2020-01-04T16:40:54Z")
If the girl she is looking for is a relative of hers, I highly recommend that your friend upload whatever she knows of her family tree on the [Jewishgen.org](http://Jewishgen.org) website. I did that and have gotten all kinds of emails from relatives, people who went to high school with my grandparents, etc. over the years. You never know what you may find out! Such a contact led to my discovering [some interesting things about my great-grandmother.](http://b.treelines.com/when-you-bang-your-head-against-the-wall-hard-enough-part-one/) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sources-to-research-a-particular-jewish-girl-who-died-in-ukraine-in-or-near-wwii/845888/8 "2020-01-04T23:10:45Z")
> [@Eva\_Luna](#): > > If the girl she is looking for is a relative of hers, I highly recommend that your friend upload whatever she knows of her family tree on the [Jewishgen.org](http://Jewishgen.org) website. I did that and have gotten all kinds of emails from relatives, people who went to high school with my grandparents, etc. over the years. You never know what you may find out! Such a contact led to my discovering [some interesting things about my great-grandmother.](http://b.treelines.com/when-you-bang-your-head-against-the-wall-hard-enough-part-one/) It’s not a relative. But an excellent suggestion-- actually, more than excellent, this would be a necessity if searching for family.