Genealogical Research

Researching histories of persecution. Reclaiming family history.

We conduct genealogical research into biographies and family histories shaped by the Second World War and the Holocaust — bringing to light fates buried by persecution, flight, and extermination.

Through professional archival work, we reconstruct paths of persecution and help families discover what happened to their relatives during the Second World War. In doing so, we draw on a far-reaching network of archives and institutions, including the Arolsen Archives, Yad Vashem, German compensation archives, the Claims Conference, and the Israeli Ministry of Finance (Otzar) with its own compensation programmes and holdings.

In this way, we trace the path a person took through the years of persecution — from places of residence and ghettos through deportations to liberation, emigration, or death. For relatives, this means certainty and the restoration of a piece of family history once thought lost.

At the same time, our archive-based research forms the foundation for pension, compensation, and citizenship proceedings — carefully documented and with the respect owed to the people whose stories we tell.