Research Projects

About the ProjectBetween 350,000 and 500,000 Jews served in various roles in the Red Army during the Soviet-German War of 1941–1945. In the first months after the German invasion, a large number of Jews, especially members of the intelligentsia and university students, joined the Narodnoe opolchenie (National Guard or militia), the irregular military units whose task was to slow and, hopefully,...

The Deportations of Jews Research Project and Digital Database (“Transports to Extinction”) is reconstructing all transports of Jews from every Jewish community carried out by the Nazi regime during the period of the Shoah. The intention is to collect reliable and detailed information about each transport route, the bureaucratic deportation apparatus as well as the socio-economic background...

The Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR project reveals the fates of the mid-sized and smaller communities, and publishes documentation on the nearby murder sites in the German- and Romanian-occupied areas of the former Soviet Union.

Despite progression in the field, the Holocaust studies in Austria is an under-researched topic, awaiting research and discussion, especially from a Jewish viewpoint. Existing studies that do address the fate of Austrian Jewry often do so merely within the context of the Holocaust in the Nazi Reich, which means that focused discussion of Austria is still largely lacking.  This also applies to...

Dr. Laszlo Tauber z”l established in March 2002 the Fund for Research of the Holocaust in Hungary and Hungarian Jewish History at Yad Vashem in honor of his daughter Dr. Ingrid Tauber, a clinical psychologist in San Francisco and a member of the Executive Committee of the American Society of Yad Vashem.  A Hungarian immigrant, surgeon and Holocaust survivor, Dr. Laszlo Tauber was born in...

Since the end of World War II, scholars, Holocaust survivors, Jewish leaders and others have posed important questions about the role of the Vatican, Pius XII, and institutions operated by the Catholic Church both during the Holocaust and in its aftermath. Many questions remained unanswered, often raising controversies among scholars and in public discourse. 
The International Institute for...