Jewish Studies: The Holocaust

The Anne Frank Center USA promotes the universal message of tolerance by developing and disseminating a variety of educational programs, including exhibitions, workshops, and special events in its Exhibition and Education Center in New York City.

Scroll down to view this 39-minute led by Dr. Daniel Greene, US Holocaust Memorial Museum historian and exhibition curator, who through this exhibition and provides an overview of the history, themes, and artifacts presented throughout. It was originally filmed in 2018 for American Artifacts on C-SPAN.

The Amsterdam hiding place of the Frank family tells the history of the eight people in hiding and those who helped them during the war.

This presentation looks at photographs from an album donated to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007; the album 'almost certainly belonged to and was created by [a German SS officer] ... stationed at Auschwitz from May 1944 until the evacuation of the [World War II Nazi concentration] camp in January 1945.' Provides photos from the album, background about the officer, essays, archivist interview, and related material. From the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

This institute teaches the history and lessons of America’s response to the Holocaust, through scholarly research, public events, publications, and educational programs.

reVILNA is a fully interactive and immersible digital mapping project of the Vilna Ghetto.

A collection of over 4,300 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust. Part of Yale University's department of Manuscripts and Archives, the archive is located at Sterling Memorial Library.

Arranged by country, then city, provides links to museum web sites.

Contains the full text of the book of the same name as well as a selection of the images, providing a detailed history of the atrocities committed by the Nazis during World War II. A timeline of Jewish history begins in the Prologue with the Hebrews moving to Egypt c. 1500 BCE, and ends in the Epilogue in mid-1999 with the Swiss banks' settlement for Holocaust survivors. Brief histories of anti-Semitism and fascism, a background of Germany leading up to the war, and more.

Online encyclopedia from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

This web site from the National Archives and Records Administration documents how records in the National Archives provided a research base for tracking works seized during the war.

The Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Center at Queensborough Community College focusing on education, research, and remembrance.

Resources that range from introductory glossaries, timelines, and maps, to in-depth stories on spies in the SS, the concentration camps, the history of distinguishing badges, and much more.

This site is organized in six categories: a 31-topic Overview section from 'background' to 'beginning a new life;' Headlines and timelines that cover war, the Holocaust and world events; Issues such as Nuremberg, Belzec, numbers and suffering; People; Resources; and 'Why the Jews?', a seminar on anti-Semitism.

This site is distinguished by a living and personal sense of the Holocaust conveyed by survivors through audio clips, transcripts, and photographs. The site also provides a timeline of Jewish history and persecution, an encyclopedia, primary documents, and more.

Detailed list of events that helps users to grasp the full scope of the Holocaust.

'The service at Bad Arolsen (ITS) serves victims of Nazi persecutions and their families by documenting their fate through the archives it manages. The ITS preserves these historic records and makes them available for research.'

This site reveals a little-known aspect of Holocaust history by telling the story of Jews who escaped from the ghettos, became partisans, and fought the Nazis.

'The testimonies on this site are drawn from a major oral history programme - The Living Memory of the Jewish Community - which between 1987 and 2000 gathered 186 audio life story interviews with Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and their children.' --- audio versions provided and the site maintained by the British Library

The Pogrom against the Jewish People in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, a virtual city tour of the main sites of the Pogrom during the night of November 9 to November 10, 1938.

Open since September 1997, the Museum of Jewish Heritage was created as a living memorial to those who perished during the Holocaust. It honors those who died by celebrating their lives- cherishing the traditions that they embraced, examining their achievements and faith, and affirming the vibrant worldwide Jewish community that is their legacy today.

The educational arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, the Museum of Tolerance focuses on two central themes in its exhibits: the dynamics of racism and prejudice in America and the history of the Holocaust.

A database from Częstochowa-Radomsko Area Research Group (CRARG) containing over 400,000 records of survivor and death lists from all areas of Poland.

The USC Shoah Foundation Institute's Visual History Archive makes available over 52,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors. This is the University of Michigan Library LibGuide to the resource.

The center is an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach and social action. The Center confronts important contemporary issues including racism, anti-semitism, terrorism and genocide.

Many of their documents, materials, and exhibitions are available online.

First-hand accounts of horror, survival, and liberation of 70 victims of Nazi atrocities and oppression during World War II. The interviewees are farmers, lawyers, artists, carpenters and others from many religions, nationalities, and languages from across Europe. The interviews were conducted in 1946 in displaced persons camps around Europe and transcribed into English by Dr. David Pablo Boder, an Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)

This site was created by Judy Weissenberg Cohen, a Holocaust survivor, and is dedicated to the memory of the women who were killed during the Holocaust and to those who survived.

This authority, was established in 1953 by the Israeli Knesset. Since its inception, Yad Vashem has been entrusted with documenting the history of the Jewish people during the Holocaust period, preserving the memory and story of each of the six million victims, and imparting the legacy of the Holocaust for generations to come through its archives, library, school, museums and recognition of the Righteous Among the Nations.

Holocaust study resources at YIVO include published materials, original documents and photographs.

This site, sponsored by the JewishGen genealogy group, features translations of more than 580 Yizkor books originally written in Yiddish. 'Yizkor books were written after the Holocaust as memorials to Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust. They were usually put together by survivors from those communities and contain descriptions and histories of the shtetl, biographies of prominent people, lists of people who perished, etc.' Also includes information about libraries with Yizko

Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day.

This site (which seems not to be available in March 2015) documents Jewish faith during the Holocaust. It provides information about Jewish communities affected, testimony from adults and hidden children, and information about how observant Jews managed to keep their faith and follow Jewish law during the Holocaust. Site contains images of archival documents, abstracts of books, photographs, and video. Available in English and Hebrew. The link to the English language version was not working in April 2015.

Their mission is to insure the remembrance of the Holocaust via public events and publications.