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Online Resources

Metasites | Witness & Legacy Websites | Primary Sources | Survivors and Rescuers | Teaching the Holocaust | Artistic Responses to the Holocaust | Photography & the Holocaust | Promoting Tolerance & Diversity



FEATURED SITE
In Our Own Backyard: Resisting Nazi Propaganda in Southern California, 1933-1945
An On-Line Exhibition with Materials Contributed by California State University Northridge, University Library Department of Special Collections and Archives; The Museum of Tolerance; and University of Southern California Libraries, Department of Special Collections.


METASITES
Holocaust: Cybrary of the Holocaust
Excellent site containing a variety of materials, ranging from poetry to art to discussion forums. Covers death camps, survivors, music, modern reactions, and many other areas of interest. Multiple search engines.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Excellent site featuring current events, the Museum's exhibits, a wide variety of informational pages, guidelines for teaching the Holocaust, and a search engine for the Museum's archives.

Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem is a complex of museums, monuments, research, teaching and resource centers in Jerusalem. This site contains information about Yad Vashem and its current events.

Yahoo: The Holocaust
Yahoo: Holocaust Memorials
Yahoo: Yom Hashoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day
Three annotated metasites on the Holocaust, from Yahoo.

Guide to the Holocaust
A very rich, annnotated guide to online resources on the Holocaust, provided by the Mining Company.

Links to Holocaust-Related Sites
Maintained by the Jewish Community Relations Council of San Francisco.

Geocities/Athens: Jewish Resource Page: Holocaust Information.

Geocities/Vienna: Informative Resources of the Holocaust

Holocaust Home Page
Includes resource links for non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust: homosexuals, Romani, Jehovah's Witnesses.

Holocaust and Jewish Studies Sites
Maintained by Professor Dan Graf, Virginia Wesleyan College.

The Jerusalem Post: A Selection of Holocaust Sites
Institutions and museums, poetry, memoirs, education, prevention and much more.

Maven: Holocaust & Antisemitism
An annotated bibliogrpahy of over 100 sites.

Southern Institute for Education and Research: The Holocaust and Judaism



WITNESS & LEGACY WEBSITES
Aurora Public Art Commission. Aurora Art & History Center, Aurora, Illinois.

University Art Museum. University at Albany, State University of New York.

Shaila Dewan. History's Burden: Is the horror of the Holocaust beyond the reach of art? [Review of Witness and Legacy]. houstonpress.com. 1997.



PRIMARY SOURCES
American Jewish Archives: Archival/Manuscript Collections: Holocaust

Literature of the Holocaust

The Holocaust History Project
A free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust-denial.

The Holocaust
A collection of primary sources, as well as links to other resources.

The Mechelen Museum of Deportation and the Resistance
A history of the Jewish community in Belgium. Many photographs.

An Auschwitz Alphabet
Contains 26 windows into life and death in Auschwitz that have been collected by Jonathan Blumen. Also contains the transcript of an interview with Ken McVay.



SURVIVORS AND RESCUERS
Always Remember
This site is dedicated to examining Jewish resistance during the Holocaust, giving information on both the spiritual and armed resistance of many Jews in ghettos and concentration camps.

Holocaust Survivor Oral History Project
Audio materials and transcripts, taken from interviews with over 150 survivors.

Holocaust Survivors: A Selected Bibliography

Whosoever saves a single life...
Bibliography of works about the lives and actions of rescuers.

Holocaust Survivors
Materials Found in the Online Catalog of the U.S. Holocaust Research Institute Library.

Alicia Appleman-Jurman: Survival and Heroism of a Young Girl During the Holocaust

David's Story



TEACHING THE HOLOCAUST
Education Resources
An annotated list of Holocaust-related educational resources, maintained by the Mining Company.

Books on the Holocaust
A bibliography of books on the Holocaust, divided into 7 categories: Victims, Resistance and Rescue, World Reaction, Arts and Literature, Historical Fiction, Aftermath and Overview. Maintained by the Westport Public Library.

The Holocaust
A bibliography of books on the Holocaust maintained by the Berkeley Public Library Teen Services.

Do You Know? Will You Remember? Books & Websites about the Holocaust for Young Adults
This page, by Karen L. Simonetti, sumamrizes eleven books about the Holocaust for young adults, as well as various Holocaust links.

Teaching the Holocaust
A guide to an interdisciplinary and computerized program teaching the Holocaust through the use of stamps, pictures, text and paintings by children of the Holocaust.

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust, through text, photographs, art and literature. Also includes an annotated list of Holocaust-related software. Sponsored by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida.

Anne Frank Online. (See also The Anne Frank House.)

The Holocaust: Questions and Activities for Thought and Discussion
Discussion questions and activities being used by one high school as a guide for visiting the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Responses to the Holocaust: A Hypermedia Sourcebook for the Humanities
"Intended to introduce the viewer/reader to the various discourses, disciplines, media and institutions that have produced significant critical and theoretical positions and discussions concerning the Nazi Genocide of the Jews of Europe, 1933-45."

Anti-Bias Teacher Education Project
Study guides for using Schindler's List effectively in the classroom (Teaching Schindler), and for exploring the responses of ordinary people during the Holocaust (Deathly Silence: Everyday People in the Holocaust).

The Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy
An interactive, multimedia site developed for ThinkQuest, an annual competition that challenges students, ages 12 to 19, to use the Internet as a collaborative, interactive teaching and learning tool.

Classroom Focus: Two Holocaust-Related Lessons
Two Holocaust-related lessons by Paul Wieser, one on the U.S. Press and the Holocaust, the second on Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1942. Also included are maps by George F. McCleary, Jr., Darin T. Grauberger, and Michael G. Noll, and a chronology of the Holocaust by Stephen Feinberg. (Note: This document is in pdf format and can be read only with Adobe's free Acrobat Reader software.)

Education...A Legacy Forum for Teaching the Holocaust
A site for teachers to exchange lesson plans, share new ideas, and help students learn. Sponsored by the Cybrary of the Holocaust.

Online Education Web Sites
An annotated list of educational sites. Also sponsored by the Cybrary of the Holocaust.

Learning about the Holocaust
Guidelines for Teaching, a Brief History of the Holocaust, Five Questions about the Holocaust, Children and the Holocaust, and an annotated videography. Sponsored by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The Holocaust Studies Center at the Bronx High School of Science
Education and research guides; multimedia, poetry, songs, literature, etc.



ARTISTIC RESPONSES TO THE HOLOCAUST
[Eighth Grade, Springman Junior High School, Glenview,Illinois]. The Holocaust Exhibit.
Judy Chicago. The Holocaust Project.
Cybrary of the Holocaust. Imagine: A Student's Forum for Studying the Holocaust.
Rob Erdle. Birkenau I.
Gideon. HolocaustCCollection
Chaim Goldberg. Holocaust Art.
Fritz Hirschberger. Indifference.
G. Roy Levin. HALT! Remembering the Holocaust.
Museum of Jewish Heritage. A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.
Josef Nassy. Images of Internment.
David Olère. Selected Works of a A Painter in the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz.
Benjamin Shiff. Holocaust.
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust. [Artworks by Inmates and Survivors].
Nelly Toll. War Against the Jews, 1943-44: Art of a Young Jewish Girl in Hiding.
Fernand "Horn" Van Horen. Drawings.
Pavel Vogler. Three Stories from the Life of Henryk Vogler.


PHOTOGRAPHY & THE HOLOCAUST
Images from the Cybrary of the Holocaust
A comprehensive collection of photographs ranging from the years before the Holocaust to the liberation of the camps.

Nazism and the Holocaust
Part of the photographic exhibition, Beyond the Pale: The History of Jews in Russia.

Adolf Eichmann Photo Gallery
Part of PBS' The Trial of Adolf Eichmann.

Gallery of Holocaust Images
Part of A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust.

Birkenau
Photographs of the Birkenau Concentration Camp, taken by Alan Jacobs between 1979 and 1981.

Holocaust Pictures Exhibition
Thirty-seven photographs.

L'Chaim: A Holocaust Web Project
Two photo essays, a virtual tour of Dachau, as well as a Holocaust glossary and links to other Holocaust resources.



PROMOTING TOLERANCE & DIVERSITY
An End to Intolerance
An annual, international student-produced magazine, each issue of which focuses on a particular issue. (The 1997 issue was entitled "Humanitarians: Making Moral Decisions.")

Beyond the Holocaust: Survival or Extinction? A Survival Manual for Humanity
An online copy of Peter Zuckerman's book that explores the reasons for the Holocaust and the lessons humanity can draw from it.

Simon Wiesenthal Center
Current events, the monitoring of hate groups ("CyberWatch"), The Museum of Tolerance, educational resources (including a section on Black-Jewish relations), and information about Simon Wiesenthal.

Nizkor: a Response to Holocaust Denial
"A collage of projects focused on the Holocaust and its denial, often referred to as Holocaust 'revisionism'."

Holocaust/Genocide Project
"An international, nonprofit, telecommunications project focusing on study of the Holocaust and other genocides. The purpose of the HGP is to promote education and awareness, and to encourage the application of this knowledge in a way which makes a positive difference in the world. The HGP welcomes all students - Age 12-17 - and teachers, internationally."

This list was compiled by Sarah E. Dornan, Jaechool Lee and Chris Hodge.