Meed Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
Established in 1981 to document the names of survivors who came to the Americas after World War II, the Registry, the only one of its kind, was moved in 1993 to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). Along with the Museum, the American Gathering continues to manage the database and to seek new registrants via its quarterly newspaper Together and its website, amgathering.org among other venues. As a result of the American Gathering's efforts, the Registry now includes over 200,000 records related to survivors and their families and is a resource for Holocaust historians and scholars, as well as families looking for lost relatives.
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