World War II Archives

Air Force Historical Research Agency (AFHRA):http://www.afhra.af.mil/. To contact them, go to http://www.afhra.af.mil/main/contactus.asp.

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives WWII-era records available online: http://archives.jdc.org/about-us/articles/jdc-world-war-ii-era-records.html.

ARCHIEVEN.NL: http://kranten.kb.nl/. This website allows you to search for particular words or persons in city archives in The Netherlands.

Archives and Documentation Service of the Department of War Victims (Service Archives et Documentation du Service des Victimes de la Guerre), Belgium: http://www.socialsecurity.fgov.be/fr/nieuws-publicaties/bibliotheek/bibliotheek-oorlogsslachtoffers.htm

Belgian Armed Forces, Center for Historic Documentation (Centre de Documentation Historique des Forces Armées): http://www.mil.be/is/units/index.asp?LAN=fr&ID=1210

Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society (CEGES-SOMA), Brussels:http://www.cegesoma.be/cms/index_en.php

Database of the Righteous Among the Nations from the Netherlands and Ukraine: http://db.yadvashem.org/righteous/search.html?language=en

Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces, Directorate of History and Heritage: http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/index-eng.asp

Directorate-General War Victims (Belgium): http://warvictims.fgov.be/en/index.htm

FBI World War II documents electronic reading room: http://vault.fbi.gov/world-war-ii

Imperial War Museum: http://www.iwm.org.uk/. Imperial War Museum Collections: http://collections.iwm.org.uk/.

International Tracing Service, Bad Arolsen, Germany: http://www.its-arolsen.org/en/homepage/index.html

Institute of History of Time Present (French WWII archives – Institut d’histoire du temps présent): http://www.ihtp.cnrs.fr/

Library of Congress Web Guides, A Guide to World War II Materials: http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/WW2/WW2bib.html

National Archives (British), Kew, (formerly the Public Record Office):http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/. See also their Bookshop and its WWII selection of books at: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/bookshop/category.aspx?c=76.

National Archives II, College Park, Maryland (National Archives and Records Administration) : http://www.archives.gov/dc-metro/college-park/. Archives Library Information Center (ALIC), Military Resources: World War II: http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/ww2.html.

Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD), Amsterdam:http://www.niod.knaw.nl/. For English, go to: http://www.niod.nl/default.asp. For information on the LO/LKP archival records (Collectie Stichting LO-LKP): http://www.niod.knaw.nl/actueel/actueel_detail.asp?ID=766.

Netherlands Institute of Military History (NIMH), The Hague:http://www.nimh.nl/en/faq/

Netherlands Ministry of Defence (Ministerie de Defensie): http://www.defensie.nl/ (English: http://www.defensie.nl/english/)

Netherlands National Archives (Nationaal Archief):http://www.en.nationaalarchief.nl/

War and Resistance Center Groningen (The Netherlands) (Stichting Oorlogs- en Verzetscentrum Groningen (OVCG): http://www.ovcg.nl/

WW2 People’s War, an archive of World War Two memories — written by the public, gathered by the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/categories/. This site contains 47,000 stories organized by event, home front, armed services, type of activity, etc.

Professor Roger N. Buckley, History Department, University of Connecticut - USA | January 4, 2012 at 6:40 am | Reply

I am writing a book on the Azad Hind Legion/Free Indian Legion of the Second World War. The Legion served with the German Army and was recruited with British Indian troops who were captured by the German Army in North Africa in 1942. I am particularly interested in those who were stationed in the Netherlands – Texel and Sandvoort. More specifically, I am interested in photographs of Sikh soldiers of the Legion. Thank you for your assistance.