ON-LINE RESOURCES

 

Bibliographies and Reading Lists

 

Basic Bibliography of the Holocaust—from Yad Vashem.  Extensive list of books broken down into country and topical categories.  http://www1.yadvashem.org/about_holocaust/bibliography/home_bibliography.html

 

Bibliographies—from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The following bibliographies were compiled to guide readers to materials on various holocaust-related topics. They list only materials that are in the library's collection or available via the world wide web. They are not meant to be exhaustive. In most cases, annotations are provided to help the user determine each item's focus, and call numbers for the museum's library are given in parentheses following each citation. Those unable to visit might be able to find these works in a nearby public or academic library as well, or acquire them through interlibrary loan. Talk to your local librarian for assistance.

·         1933 Book Burnings

·         1936 Olympics

·         Anne Frank

·         Anschluss

·         Antisemitism

·         Arthur Szyk

·         Asset Restitution and Indemnification

·         Blacks

·         Children

·         Children’s Books

·         Chiune Sugihara

·         Daily Life in the Concentration Camps

·         Darfur

·         Diaries

·         Displaced Persons

·         The Eichmann Trial

·         Elie Wiesel

·         Forced Labor

·         Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter

·         Gays and Lesbians

·         Ghettos

·         Hidden Children

·         Holocaust Fiction

·         Holocaust Poetry

·         Holocaust-related Travel

·         El Holocausto (libros en español)

·         Jehovah’s Witnesses

·         Kristallnacht

·         Liberators

·         Łódź Ghetto

·         Looted Art

·         Medical Experiments

·         Music

·         Nazi Language and Terminology

·         Nazi Propaganda

·         Nazi Racial Science

·         The Nuremberg Trials

·         Oskar Schindler

·         People with Disabilities

·         Poles

·         Primary Sources

·         Psychological Trauma and the Holocaust

·         Raoul Wallenberg

·         Rescuers

·         Rwanda

·         Sinti and Roma (“Gypsies”)

·         The United States and the Holocaust

·         United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

·         Varian Fry

·         Women

Primary Sources Bibliography—from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

·         Introduction

·         Nazi Germany and the Holocaust

·         Rescue Efforts

·         United States and the Holocaust

·         War Crimes Trials

·         Personal Accounts

·         Museum Web Resources

·         Additional Resources

Encyclopedias and FAQs

Lexicon of the Holocaust—from Yad Vashem.  “A concise elementary introduction to the topics and ideas can be found in the Lexicon. The ‘Holocaust Resource Center’ contains hundreds of documents on the subject of the Holocaust. Examples of the texts include: individuals, institutions, phenomenona, important sites, cities and events. These documents will provide an elementary definition of the subjects and will present basic data. The texts are based on the ‘Encyclopedia of the Holocaust’ produced by Yad Vashem.”  http://www1.yadvashem.org/Odot/prog/index_before_change_table.asp?gate=C-0

 

The Holocaust Encyclopedia—from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.  http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/

 

FAQs on the Holocaust—from Yad Vashem.  Answers questions such as: Why didn't more Jews leave Europe before the war began?  Why didn't the Allies bomb Auschwitz?  What is Holocaust Denial?

http://www1.yadvashem.org/Odot/prog/index_before_change_table.asp?gate=5-0

 

BASIC LINKs to rescources

·         A directory of Holocaust museums around the world – includes links to each of the museums

·         United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

·         Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority

·         The Florida Holocaust Museum

·         The Simon Wiesenthal Center

·         Rembember.org – A Cybrary of the Holocaust which includes a 360 degree virtual tour of Auschwitz and Birkenau

·         The Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy – a site created by ThinkQuest that includes a number of educational links and includes a number interactive features to include the ability to examine various moral dilemmas. It also includes a virtual reality camp

·         Fire in my Heart: The Story of Hannah Senesh – a site created to provide the most comprehensive information about Hannah Senesh.  Among Israel’s most important heroes is Hannah Senesh, who died by firing squad in 1944 at age 23. This first-ever major exhibition tells how this Budapest-born poet, diarist, and author of the hymn Eli, Eli discovered her love for the Land of Israel, how she volunteered for a mission to rescue downed Allied fliers and Jews from Nazi-occupied Hungary, and how she became an enduring symbol of courage and determination. 

·         Holocaust Education in Ohio—from Beyond our Walls: State Profiles on Holocaust Education for Ohio.  State links, Ohio legislation and Ohio Academic Standards. http://www.ushmm.org/education/foreducators/states/index.php?state=OH

 

Arts and Literature

Literature from the Holocaust includes the memoirs, poetry, diaries, stories and other works that came out of the Third Reich and World War II. Also during this time, professional and amateur artists created eloquent, artistic “snapshots” of life and death under Hitler. The art, which represents all genres, was created by ghetto dwellers, camp internees, and displaced persons.

 

Art Resources—from the Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida and the Florida Holocaust Museum.

·         Ghetto and Camp Art. The record left by ghetto dwellers, camp internees, and displaced persons allows people to get a glimpse of life and death under Hitler.

·         Nazi Approved Art. Art was considered to be one of the most important elements to strengthening the Third Reich and purifying the nation.

·         Degenerate (Entartete) Art. By 1933, terms like "Jewish" "Degenerate" and "Bolshevik" were in common use to describe all art which did not fit the Nazi ideal.

·         Art in Response to the Holocaust. The memory of the Holocaust has inspired people from all walks of life to create various art forms to express their feelings about this terrible period in history.

·         Teacher Resources. Here you will find lesson plans and other resources for the study of the Holocaust through art.

 

Literature Resources— from the Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida and the Florida Holocaust Museum.

·         The Voices of Victims. This category focuses on the importance of personal writing as a means of understanding the Holocaust. These diaries, stories and poems also serve to humanize the vast number of Holocaust victims by introducing readers to individuals with understandable dreams, passions and agonies.

·         Survivor Testimony and Literature. The poignant testimony of Holocaust survivors reaffirms the will to live and to retain human dignity in the face of terrible adversity. These biographies and memoirs can help to personalize historical events and to establish real faces in the overwhelming sea of facts and statistics.

·         Accounts of Resistance. There are thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, both Jewish and non-Jewish, who resisted the Nazis in ways big and small. These remarkable stories of defiance counter the myth that Nazi victims passively submitted to their fate.

·         Stories of Rescue and Heroism. It is imperative that the world recognize and remember the actions of the "Righteous Gentiles," those relatively few individuals who took definite steps and frequently risked their lives to save fellow human beings. Many of those who deserve praise and honor are no longer alive to tell their stories.

·         The German Experience. If the goal of Holocaust education is to prevent the recurrence of such a tragedy, then we must carefully examine the participants and the circumstances that permitted the rise of Nazism. The selections in this category focus on life in Germany during the rise and rule of the Third Reich.

·         Aftermath: Response and Reflection. In the fifty years since the Holocaust, what moral lessons has the world learned? Works in this section that attempt to respond to this question include critical analyses, as well as fiction, drama, and poetry that honor the victims and survivors of the Holocaust.

·         Teacher Resources. Here you will find lesson plans and other resources for the study of the Holocaust through literature.

 

Literature Resources from Remember.org    

http://www.english/upenn.edu~afilreis/Holocaust/holhome.html-literature on Holocaust 

 

Music Resources— from the Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida and the Florida Holocaust Museum.

·         Music of the Ghettos and Camps. Although the inhabitants were incarcerated, music was composed and performed giving voice to the indomitable human spirit within the ghettos and camps. Most cruelly, the large camps had orchestras and bands who were forced to play while their families, friends and neighbors were selected for death then sent to the gas chambers or firing squads.

·         Music of the Third Reich. Hitler was decidedly against any music that did not have the Teutonic overtones of Wagner and Bruckner. State sanctioned music had to sound German.

·         "Degenerate" Music. Like their counterparts in the Arts, musicians were trying to express through music the world around them. Any music that demonstrated abstract expressionism, jazz, or experimented with "atonality" was prohibited and labeled "entarte" or degenerate.

·         Music in Response to the Holocaust. Composers and musicians have created a vast array of music in response to the Holocaust. Written and performed both during and after the Holocaust, the requiems, operas, cantatas and ballads are filled with the stories of the victims, survivors and resistance fighters. Some are poems found in ghettos and camps that have been set to music while others are in remembrance of specific victims like Anne Frank.

·         Teacher Resources. Here you will find lesson plans and other resources for the study of the Holocaust through music.

 

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust, produced by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida

http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/resource.htm

 

The Holocaust Resource Center at Yad Vashem.  “The Holocaust Resource Center provides you with easy access to in-depth information about the Holocaust. It can help you integrating the info you already have. The Center has a large collection of sources from the Yad Vashem Archives, including various kinds of original Holocaust-era documentation provided in English including letters and diaries written by Jews during the Holocaust, numerous photographs and original documents. The Holocaust Resource Center serves as a repository for the collection of the testimonies of Holocaust survivors that have been collected at Yad Vashem over the years, as well as excerpts from memoirs written by survivors after the war. The Resource Center supports this collection of primary sources with excerpts from research studies, as well as, works of art, and historical maps and charts.”  These are also arranged topically/chronologically in Yad Vashem’s “Gates of Knowledge.”  The topics are:

·         Photographs

·         Diaries and Letters

·         Documents

·         Testimonies

·         Lexicon Entries

·         Research

·         Maps and Charts

·         Artifact Collection

·         Works of Art

 

Antisemitism and Racism Resources—at Yad Vashem.  Artifacts, documents, maps, photographs, etc.  http://www1.yadvashem.org/Odot/prog/index_before_change_table.asp?gate=1-1

 

Anne Frank House Museum.   Documentary and visual resources.

http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?pid=1&lid=2

 

Online Resources.  From the Holocaust Community, founded in 1995, Remember.org (A Cybrary of the Holocaust) is an educational community of contributors (survivors, liberators, historians, and authors), sharing the best research resources and stories through art, photography, painting, audio/video, and remembrance.

http://remember.org/

 

Resources for Teachers—Education at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.  “[Resources] for teachers striving to help students learn the history of the Holocaust and reflect upon the moral and ethical questions raised by that history.”  Arranged according to the topics listed below:

·         Why teach about the Holocaust?

·         What Do I Teach?

·         Guidelines for Teaching

·         Are you new to teaching about the Holocaust?

·         On-line Teacher Workshop

·         State Profiles on Holocaust Education

·         Essential Topics to Teach

·         Resources and Materials

·         Personal Stories and ID Cards

·         Lesson, Activities and Teacher Guides

·         Common Student Questions about the Holocaust

·         Professional Development

·         Contemporary Issues on Genocide and Antisemitism

·         Organizing a Group Visit

 

Groups related to the Holocaust—from the Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida and the Florida Holocaust Museum.  “The People section investigates the human drama of the Holocaust. The participants are grouped according to perspective, either forced or chosen. As in any other facet of life, the groups are not mutually exclusive.”  Contains links to documents, photos, web sites, in-depth reports, and teacher lesson plans.

·         Victims. “Millions were victimized by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust: Jews, Gypsies, political enemies, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and people with disabilities.”

·         Perpetrators. “Hitler created an atmosphere of terror that was maintained by force.” Bystanders. “Throughout the world, many stood by and watched as the atrocities mounted.”

·         Resisters. “Resistance took many forms, from individual acts to organized armed resistance against the Nazi terror.”

·         Rescuers. “Rescuers, by hiding victims in attics or by helping them to escape to other countries, saved many who would have perished.”

·         Liberators. “The Allies liberated the concentration camps in 1945 and became unwilling witnesses to the horror.”

·         Survivors. “Survivors relate their thoughts and feelings about living through such a terrible period of human history.”

·         Children. “Children were especially vulnerable in this tragic period.”

 

 

Teacher Resources—from the Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida and the Florida Holocaust Museum. 

·         Bibliographies. General and specialized bibliographies of Holocaust works for students and teachers.

·         Movies. Short QuickTime movies of survivor testimony, Kristallnacht, ghettos, transports, camps and other Holocaust themes.

·         Software. An annotated list of educational software appropriate to a study of the Holocaust.

·         Documents. Primary source materials related to the Holocaust.

·         Museums. Descriptions of Holocaust museums and resource centers in Florida and elsewhere.

·         Videography. An annotated list of films and videos about the Holocaust.

·         Galleries. Over 3,000 Holocaust photographs, drawings, and paintings grouped into thematic galleries.

·         Music. A collection of music files appropriate to a study of the Holocaust.

·         Virtual Reality Movies. Sixty VR panorama movies of concentration camps and other Holocaust-related sites.

·         Glossary. Terms related to the Holocaust, including the pronunciation of many foreign words.      

·         Plays. An annotated list of educational plays with a Holocaust theme. Access full scripts of selected plays here.

·         Web Search. Links to relevant Holocaust-related Web search engines and directories.

·         Maps. All of the maps in A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust. Many of the maps are formatted for printing.

·         Quizzes. Interactive quizzes for each of the Timeline and People sub-sections.

·         Web Sites. Links to relevant Holocaust-related Web sites.

 

 

David M. Dickerson, Holocaust/Shoah Research Resources.  Although not recently updated, links are provided to many useful sites worldwide.  Winner of a Britannica Internet Guide Award.  http://ddickerson.igc.org/holocaust.html

Organized into the following tabs:

·         “Organizations”—links to a wide range of international sites dealing with the Holocaust and Holocaust education (Last Updated: 17 December 2005).  http://ddickerson.igc.org/organizations.html

·         “Educational Resources and Projects”—lesson plans, projects, and resources (Last Updated: 17 December 2005).  http://ddickerson.igc.org/education.html

·         “Archives and General References”—documents, testimonies, visual resources, documentaries (Last Updated: 27 February 2003).  http://ddickerson.igc.org/archives.html

·         “Electronic Discussion List and Conference Archives”—links to various scholarly discussion networks, mostly part of the H-Net initiative (Last Updated: 10 December 1999).  http://ddickerson.igc.org/list-archives.html

·         “Personal Responses to the Holocaust”—a few written and visual responses, including several based on visits to camps and memorials (Last Updated: 10 December 1999).  http://ddickerson.igc.org/personal.html

·         “Survivors and Rescuers”—sites ranging from large audio archives of survivor testimonies to those dedicated to an individual survivor or rescuer (Last Updated: 5 September 2005).  http://ddickerson.igc.org/survivors.html 

·         “The Third Reich”—extensive links to written and visual documents of the Nazi regime; includes links to television programs from, for example, PBS and Court TV (Last Updated: 10 December 1999).  http://ddickerson.igc.org/third-reich.html

 

David M. Dickerson, Antisemitism Research Resources.  Links to monitoring organizations, accounts of particular historical incidents, and research centers and their scholarly output (Last Updated: 5 September 2005).  http://ddickerson.igc.org/antisemitism.html

 

Holocaust, Genocide, & Human Rights.  Created by Linda M. Woolf, Ph.D. [Webster University Psychology Professor and Center Coordinator - Holocaust & Genocide Studies

Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Co-Founder, Webster University].  http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/holocaust.html 

 

Yad Vashem—The International School for Holocaust Studies.  The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority of Israel.  Lesson plans, interactive maps, photos, testimony, book reviews, diaries, letters, timeline, FAQs, etc. http://www1.yadvashem.org/education/index_education.html

 

 

Teaching Resources and Links—from Teacher Oz’s Kingdom of History.  This site is compiled by Tracey Osborne, who 9th grade Pre-AP World Geography and 10th grade World History for a large suburban school district outside of Dallas, Texas.  The links are wide-ranging and are organized in a comprehensive sections and by topics.  http://www.teacheroz.com/holocaust.htm

 

Resources on Nazi Germany and World War II—from The History Place.  “The History Place is a private, independent, Internet-only publication based in the Boston area that is not affiliated with any political group or organization. The Web site presents a fact-based, common sense approach in the presentation of the history of humanity, with great care given to accuracy.  The site was founded and is owned and published by Philip Gavin, who has earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Northeastern University and a Master of Science degree from Boston University. Except where noted, the articles and text appearing throughout The History Place Web site were written by Mr. Gavin.”

·         The Rise of Adolf Hitler

o    From unknown to Dictator of Germany.

·         The Triumph of Hitler

o    1933-39 The pre-war years of Nazi Germany.

·         The Defeat of Hitler (coming in 2009)

o    1939-45 The quest for a Nazi Empire.

·         Special Topics

o    The Hitler Youth

o    Biographies of Nazi Leaders

o    Auschwitz Today - Photo Essay

·         Timeline of World War II in Europe

o    With hundreds of archive photos, text and documents.

·         Holocaust Timeline

o    Complete chronicle of Nazi persecution of the Jews with over 150 photos and text.

 

The Righteous Among the Nations—from Yad Vashem.  Resources on rescuers and others who helped Jews during the Holocaust: names, selected stories, resources, and FAQs.

http://www1.yadvashem.org/righteous_new/index.html

 

DATABASES

 

The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names—at Yad Vashem.  “Yad Vashem, together with its partners, has collected and recorded here the names and biographical details of half of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices. Millions more still remain unidentified: It is our collective duty to persist until all their names are recovered.”  http://www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/IY_HON_Welcome

 

Non-English Resources

 

Holocaust Materials in Other Languages—from Yad Vashem.  Language teachers will find this especially useful: have your students practice reading the language while also studying the Holocaust.  http://www1.yadvashem.org/education/languages.html

 

Holocaust Materials in Other Languages: The Holocaust Encyclopedia in other Languages—from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.  http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/