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, halt the Wehrmacht assaults on major Soviet cities. These units were poorly trained and poorly armed, and most of those who served in them were killed in the first months of the war. Continue reading...

The Pan-European Deportation Database and Research Project 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 system as well as the socio-economic background of the victims, enabling a comprehensive research of the deportation apparatus.  The researchers are using a wide range of documents, including official Nazi documentation, personal accounts of survivors and various studies on deportations carried out since 1945.

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.

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 Budapest. During WWII, he was chief of surgery at a makeshift hospital in Nazi-occupied Hungary, where he treated many Jews. Later on he became a renowned physician and philanthropist in the United States....