Lvov Ghetto Database

Holocaust · Lwów · Poland

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) presented this material on the Jews of Lvov to Gesher Galicia for inclusion as a JewishGen database.

Note that the city of Lvov has also been known as “Lemberg, Austria” (before 1918); it was called “Lwów, Poland” (1918–1939); known as “L’vov, U.S.S.R.” (1945–1991); and is now called “Lviv, Ukraine” (1991 to present).

This database is an index of the Jews in the Lvov ghetto during the years of 1942–1945. The names have been taken from documents related to Jews in Lvov, Poland and the surrounding areas for this period. Many of these documents consist of correspondence between the German authorities and companies in the Lvov area regarding the status of Jews who had been assigned to them for slave labor. Other data were drawn from lists and individual forms used by the Germans who controlled the ghetto.

Although these documents do not reveal the fate of any of the individuals mentioned, they may be used in conjunction with other information to establish a person’s wartime history. In most cases the information on individuals relates to travel to their places of work located in the ghetto or nearby. However, in some cases more detailed information on these persons and their families was included in the form of Personalbogen (registration forms). In no case is information on the ultimate fate of these persons included.

The USHMM microfilmed the original material in the Lviv Archives in Ukraine. Similar material is also available at Yad Vashem in Israel. The material was indexed by volunteers at the USHMM. The material is available on microfilm in the Archives of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as file RG-31.003M, and may be viewed at the Museum, or you may write to request copies of specific pages once you have determined the existence of data on an individual.

These records have been collected from assorted documents on a single reel of microfilm. The structure and purpose of each document varies widely. If a name appears on more than one document it will appear more than once in the database. Following each name in the database is the line and frame number from which the information was taken. For example, the entry “5/0501” appearing next to a particular name indicates that the preceding name can be found on line number 5 of frame number 0501, on microfilm reel RG-31.003M. This system is intended to help users quickly find the names on the source microfilm by line and corresponding frame number.

A total of 10,512 names are listed, including repetitions where a name has been listed more than once.

This database can be searched via the All Poland Database or the JewishGen Unified Search.