Records and related Information from archives of Former Soviet Union and other countries, collected by our partners.
Our goal is to promote the study of Jewish genealogy. We are collecting and organizing the Jewish genealogical information found in the archives of the countries and regions that were part of the Russian Empire prior to 1917 revolution and after.
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Archives of the different countries, where you can find records about inhabitants of Russian Empire and Soviet Union
Russia
Belarus
Estonia
Latvia
Moldova
Ukraine
Russia
Book in memory of warriors Jews, killed in the fight with Nazism (in Russian)
Feat of the people «Подвиг народа» (in Russian) - documents of WWII
Memorial «Мемориал» (in Russian) - more than 17 millions names of people, killed in action (1941-1945)
Victims of political terror in USSR (in Russian) - list of people, persecuted as enemies of state, sorted by surname
Killed in actions (in Russian)
Feat of the people «Подвиг народа» (in Russian) - documents of WWII
Memorial «Мемориал» (in Russian) - more than 17 millions names of people, killed in action (1941-1945)
Victims of political terror in USSR (in Russian) - list of people, persecuted as enemies of state, sorted by surname
Killed in actions (in Russian)
Belarus
List of Metric Books kept by Minsk Archive
List of Revision Lists kept by Minsk Archive (Bobruisk and Novogrudok districts)
List of Revision and Residents Lists kept by Minsk Archive (Mogilev province)
List of Revision Lists kept by Minsk Archive (Bobruisk and Novogrudok districts)
List of Revision and Residents Lists kept by Minsk Archive (Mogilev province)
JewishGen (JG) Belarus Database, indexed by places and surnames:
List of Metric Books and Revision lists scanned by FamilySearch
Estonia
Latvia
Moldova
Ukraine
List of documents kept by different Ukrainian archives
Documents scanned from Ukrainian archives:
The Alex Krakovsky project
The Vic Chymshyt project (from Rivne and Lutsk archives)
Note: The most of archive materials were written in Russian.
The Alex Krakovsky project
The Vic Chymshyt project (from Rivne and Lutsk archives)
Note: The most of archive materials were written in Russian.
Family names extracted from different documents
Additional sources
Ukrainian towns with Jewish records in Polish archives
List of places of Kiev province (1897) List of towns and shtetls of Volhynia province (1900) List of renamed cities in Ukraine Book of Memory searchable data base of born on Ukrainian territory and killed in action in 1941-1945 (in Russian) Jewish records in the State Archives of Odessa region |
UK
USA
Israel
UK
USA
Read documents by topics:
List of Russian Remittances
Aid to Rabbis in the Russian Empire and Palestine, 1916
Jews from the Russian Empire Requesting Contact with Relatives, 1917
Lists of Ukranian Jews, Grouped by Town, Requesting Assistance from U.S. Relatives, 1921
Beneficiaries of JDC’s Free Parcel Service in the Soviet Union, 1943-1945
List of Russian Remittances
Aid to Rabbis in the Russian Empire and Palestine, 1916
Jews from the Russian Empire Requesting Contact with Relatives, 1917
Lists of Ukranian Jews, Grouped by Town, Requesting Assistance from U.S. Relatives, 1921
Beneficiaries of JDC’s Free Parcel Service in the Soviet Union, 1943-1945
Israel
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