Free WWII Records for VE Day

MyHeritage is offering free access to all our WWII collections during May 7–11, 2025. That’s over 127 million records across 13 collections. They cover enlistment, draft, casualty, and prisoner of war records from the U.S., Europe, Australia, and beyond. This is a meaningful opportunity for your readers to dig deeper into their family’s WWII stories, and perhaps uncover something they’ve never seen before.

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Here’s just a sample of what’s included:

• U.S. WWII Draft Registrations, Navy Muster Rolls, and Army Enlistments
• POW records from France, the U.S., and the former Soviet Union
• Casualty lists from Ukraine and Finland
• Nominal rolls from Australia and New Zealand
• Draft cards from Kansas and Georgia

One MyHeritage user found a WWII record of her father, Donald Gene Johnson, in one of these collections. On VE Day, as the family anxiously awaited his return from the front, Donald’s father-in-law helped print the headline announcing the end of the war. You can watch their story in this video.

The full details are in this blog post.