Search Bureau for Missing Relatives

After the Bureau was closed, the database of these records, from the 1940s to the 1970s, was transferred to the Central Zionist Archives.

The Bureau's activities expanded over the years to include also search for missing relatives even not as a result of the Holocaust.

The inquiries of the missing relatives' seekers were filed into folders, and included data regarding the Applicant (usually name, address, date of birth, country of origin) and concerning the people it should locate.

Search requests were also published on the weekly Lakarov velarahok ("To [those] near and far"), produced by the Bureau in collaboration with the rescue committee.

The Newsletter included details of the names of Holocaust survivors at Displaced persons camps in various European cities, lists of immigrants to Israel, Relatives Search requests, greeting messages on the radio etc.