A genealogy website is now online containing the world's largest online collection of Jewish family history records. 'Ancestry.com' has partnered with two organizations for the project: ‘JewishGen’, an affiliate of New York's Museum of Jewish Heritage, and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), an overseas humanitarian aid organization. The online collection features millions of historic Jewish records including Schindler's List - the names of almost 2,000 Jews saved by a German businessman who employed them. Their story was told in the Oscar-winning 1993 film.
Many of the 26 million documents are online for the first time. They range from photographs and immigration data to a list of people who died in Nazi concentration camps. The American Joint Distribution Committee says it had digitized records showing the amount of money paid by American Jews to support the emigration of friends and relatives from Europe during and after World War II; and records of displaced Jews who were provided with food, medical care, clothing and emigration assistance by JDC.
