National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Records of Jewish Genealogy Interest
Prepared 9/7/2023 by
Sylvia Naylor, Ph.D., Archivist
National Archives and Records Administration
College Park, Maryland
sylvia.naylor@nara.gov
I. Microfilm publications
a. National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized (Record Group 242)
i. Microfilm Publication T355 Name Index of Jews Whose German Nationality Was Annulled by the Nazi Regime (Berlin Document Center) – Digitized and available in the Catalog.
ii. Microfilm Publication T457 Documents Concerning Jews in the Berlin Document Center.
iii. Microfilm Publication A3345 Miscellaneous Collection, in particular the BDC Library.
iv. Record Group 242: A3355 Miscellaneous Lists and Registers of German Concentration Camp Inmates, Originated or Collected by the International Tracing Service (Arolsen) (Holocaust) (digitized and partially available in the Catalog; fully available on fold3.com)
All microfilmed records and finding aids to these records may be viewed in the Microfilm Reading Room at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland.
II. Collection of World War II War Crimes Records (Record Group 238)
a. Concentration Camp Buchenwald Entry Register, 1945
b. Concentration Camp Dachau Entry Registers, 1945–1945 (digitized and available in the Catalog)
c. Mauthausen Concentration Camp Entry Registers, 1945–1945
d. Mauthausen Death Books (digitized and available in the Catalog)
e. Flossenbuerg Concentration Camp Lists of Inmates and Documents, 1945–1945
f. Copies of Records Relating to Flossenbuerg Concentration Camp, 1945–1945
g. In addition, thousands of pages of records located on various microfilm publications within Record Group 238 are digitized. Images of these microfilmed records may be viewed in the Catalog here.
III. Case Files, 1944-1949 in the Records of the Judge Advocate General (Army) (Record Group 153). Case files include correspondence, investigative reports, interrogations, testimonies and affidavits, trial records and transcripts for those cases brought to trial, and clemency petitions and reviews. Also included are photographs of atrocities, exhibits introduced in evidence at war crimes trials, and newspaper clippings.
There are several different indexes to records mentioned above that can be used depending on the information a researcher has relating to war crimes. For example:
a. European Name Index to the Series “Case Files, 1944-1949,” 1944-1949 (fully digitized),
b. European Organization Name Index to the Series “Case Files, 1944-1949,” 1945-1946 (fully digitized),
c. European Place Name Index to the Series “Case Files, 1944-1949,” 1944-1949 (fully digitized),
e. Stalag Name Index to the Series “Case Files, 1944-1949,” 1945-1946 (fully digitized),
f. War Crimes Committed Against Prisoners of War Index to the Series “Case Files, 1944-1949,” 1945-1946 (fully digitized),
g. Witness Name Index to the Series “Case Files, 1944-1949,” 1944-1945.
IV. Records of United States Army, Europe (Record Group 549)
a. Information Cards for Inmates of the Langenstein-Zwieberge Concentration Camp, ca. 1947 - ca. 1947 (digitized and available in the Catalog)
b. Index of Inmates to Whom Supplies Were Issued at Langenstein-Zwieberge Concentration Camp, ca. 1947 - ca. 1947 (digitized and available in the Catalog)
c. Death Certificates from Mittelbau Concentration Camp in the series titled War Crimes Trials Case Files, 1947 - 1958 (File 000-50-37, Vols 1 and 2, December 3, 1944 - April 17, 1945 (digitized and available in the Catalog)
d. Death Certificates from Mittelbau Concentration Camp in the series titled War Crimes Trials Case Files, 1947 - 1958 (File 000-50-37, Vols 1 and 2: Daily Death Certificates of Inmates of the Auxiliary Camps, December 3, 1944 - March 22, 1945 (digitized and available in the Catalog)
e. War Crimes Trials Case Files, 1947 - 1958 ("Cases Tried")
f. War Crimes Investigations Case Files, 1947–1948 ("Cases Not Tried")
V. Index to Displaced Persons and Repatriates, ca. 1943 - ca. 1947 in the Records of Allied Operational and Occupation Headquarters, World War II (Record Group 331)