Holocaust

LII Links for the Holocaust

The Simon Wiesenthal Center
Simon Wiesenthal Center Web site offers extensive educational resources on the Holocaust, WWII, and anti-Semitism.

Holocaust Resources and Materials
The Writing Company Web site contains extensive links to information about the Holocaust and other areas of prejudice. The site offers material for all ages and provides teaching material for instructors.

The Holocaust\Shoah Page
A privately maintained Web site that offers extensive information about the Holocaust/Shoah, including a chronology, a glossary, death-camp and Nuremberg Trials documents, and links to other resources.

Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Information on the archive (at Yale University Library) and excerpts from a few of its 4,300 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust. Video; audio; transcripts.

The Jewish Virtual Library - Main
Online encyclopedia of the history, society, and culture of Israel, maintained by the nonprofit American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. Maps, illustrations, statistics.

Memorial Museums Overview
Interactive map of Germany, leading to information on and photos of some 100 memorial museums for the victims of the Nazi regime. Provided by the Typography of Terror Foundation in Germany. Available in German, English, and French.

The Avalon Project : The International Military Tribunal for Germany
Searchable texts from the Nuremberg trials--orders of the tribunal, presentation of cases, testimony, supporting documents, proceedings volumes (the Blue Set), and Nazi conspiracy and aggression volumes (the Red Set). From Yale Law School.

Yad Vashem Home Page
Yad Vashem is a Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem consisting of museums, research centers, and a school for Holocaust studies. This Web site describes each component, lists events, and confronts current Holocaust-related issues. Includes photos.

World War II WWW Sites
Excellent site for material on World War II. Subject index offers a series of annotated links to the archives of several major universities. A wealth of primary source materials are available, as well as photos and audio files.

Mauthausen Memorial
A Web site in English and German from Austria's ministry of the interior. Contains prisoner accounts of life in this concentration camp. Statistics tell another grim story: how many perished. Also describes the Nazi captors. Has photos and maps.

The Nizkor Holocaust Educational Resource
The Nizkor Project, one of the most thorough Web sources about the Holocaust and Nazism, is maintained by Ken McVay, Holocaust researcher. With sections on concentration camps and Nuremberg Trials.

NOVA Online : Holocaust on Trial
Online companion to PBS's 'Nova' program (originally aired in Oct. 2000) examining a Holocaust denial trial in Britain. Features a time line of Nazi abuses, a narrative of the trial, a section on historical revisionism, links, and teacher's guide.

Guide to Archival Sources on the Holocaust
Guide to archival sources on the Holocaust, Holocaust-era assets, and related issues in the National Archives of Sweden. Includes contact and access information.

A Cybrary of the Holocaust
An educational site with information about all aspects of the Holocaust. Historical documents, first-hand remembrances, articles, essays. Provides curriculum ideas and educational materials.

The Holocaust History Project
An archive of essays, documents, and photographs about the Holocaust. The contributors, scholars from several disciplines, are focused on refuting Holocaust denial.

Shamash: Holocaust Home Page
From Hebrew College (Newton Centre, Mass.), links to Holocaust-related Web resources in three categories: Holocaust photographs, refutations of the assertion that the Holocaust never occurred, and general Holocaust information.

Jewish Museum of Deportation and the Resistance
The Web site of a Belgian museum memorializing those killed in the Holocaust. Has photos, links to Web sites, and descriptions of the museum contents, which is in the former Dossin barracks, where Jews were detained before being sent to Nazi death camps.

BEYOND THE PALE: Exhibit Guide - Expanded
The online version of an exhibition that has toured Russia since 1995 depicting the history of the Jews in Europe, and particularly in Russia, and the history of anti-Semitism.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Official Web site of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., provides information about exhibits and public programs, as well as research and online exhibitions.

TIME 100: Leaders & Revolutionaries - Adolf Hitler
A detailed profile of Adolf Hitler written by Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel. With a photo, a time line, a quiz, a sidebar on genocide, and links. Part of 'Time' magazine's Web section celebrating the 100 most important people of the 20th century.

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
This guide to the Holocaust includes photographic images from Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, a time line, videos, documents, activities, and more. Created by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, Univ. of South Florida.

Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
Web site of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, set up by Steven Spielberg (and others) in Los Angeles in 1994 (and now with offices worldwide) to document the testimony of survivors of the Holocaust.

Jewish History Resource Center
Growing database of Jewish history resources, maintained by the Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History at the Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem. Includes searchable indexes of annotated links to academic programs, archives, journals, museums, and so on.

Museum of Jewish Heritage
Web site of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. Offers visitor information, programs, events, and online exhibits.

The History Place - Holocaust Timeline
Detailed time line of the Holocaust (1933-1945) featuring over 150 photos and links to articles on specific topics. From the History Place, maintained by history writer Philip Gavin.

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Nazism
Historical resource on Nazism, with internal/external links to texts of the period. Covers the Weimar Republic, Hitler, and church positions on Nazism. Part of Prof. Paul Halsall's Internet History Sourcebooks Project.

July 31, 1941 - Heydrich ordered to prepare for Final Solution
Order from Hermann Goering to Reinhard Heydrich to prepare for the "final solution" of the "Jewish Question." Part of a comprehensive World War II time line from the History Place, maintained by history writer Philip Gavin.

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