Ancestry Research & Reflection Room
Reading Room
Mon-Thurs: 9:30am-4:30pm
Genealogy Institute
Tues-Thurs: 9:30am-4:30pm
Exhibit Spaces
Mon-Wed: 9:30am-4:30pm
Thurs: 9:30am-8pm
Fri: 10am-3pm
Sat: Closed
Sun: 11am-5pm
Please note: The Center will be closed to the public January 26th. The Lillian Goldman Reading Room and Genealogy Institute will be closed on January 21 and 27. The Reading Room will be closed on February 6.
Make sure to check our holiday closures prior to visiting.
Last entry to the Center for Jewish History Exhibitions, Reading Room, and the Genealogy Institute is 30 minutes before closing. The last call to page items in the Reading Room and Genealogy Institute is 3pm.
Created in partnership with Ancestry®, the global leader in family history, the Ancestry Research and Reflection Room at the Center for Jewish History’s Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute offers visitors the opportunity to explore millions of Holocaust-era records available on Ancestry and conduct research on their own family histories.
The Ancestry Research & Reflection Room is a dedicated space to explore family histories while preserving the memory of the more than six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust and the millions who suffered under Nazi persecution. Researching and sharing these stories helps ensure such atrocities are never repeated. The new partnership builds upon the AncestryDNA project, which seeks to unite families separated by the Holocaust through free AncestryDNA testing.
Explore more Holocaust collections on Ancestry, available for free onsite in the Ancestry Research and Reflection Room at the Center for Jewish History.