Other Online Resources

The following links are to resources on the Internet with further information about Holocaust studies:

Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
http://www.yadvashem.org.il/

"Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance
Authority, was established in 1953 by an act of 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.

"Located on Har Hazikaron, the Mount of Remembrance, in Jerusalem, Yad
Vashem is a vast, sprawling complex of tree-studded walkways leading to
museums, exhibits, archives, monuments, sculptures, and memorials."

Resources include the Archive collection consisting of thousands of video
and film testimonies of survivors, some 62 million document pages, and
more than 265,000 photographs; Library containing over 90,000 titles in
numerous languages, accessible only on site and one of the most
significant Holocaust library collections in the world; and the Hall of
Names, which contains the "Pages of Testimony" with names and biographical
data on 3.2 million victims so that they will be remembered as individual
human beings and not merely numerical statistics.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org/

An incredibly detailed online resource that covers a vast range
of topics on the history, documentation, research, and interpretation of
the Holocaust and ongoing acts of genocide such as Darfur, Sudan. The
USHMM is the US memorial to the millions of people murdered in the
Holocaust. Online resources sections on history, the Museum, education,
research, remembrance, conscience, membership, and numerous online
exhibits. Examples of some of the USHMM electronic resources: the USHMM
Library's online catalog, bibliographies, the Center for Advanced
Holocaust Studies (geared to researchers, scholars, and university
students, Speakers Bureau, Holocaust Encyclopedia, interactive public
programs, photo essays, and numerous others.

Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/homepage.html

A unit of Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library Manuscripts
and Archives, this video archive contains more than 4,200 interviews with
Holocaust survivors and other witnesses including rescuers, resistants,
and liberators. Access is on site only, but the catalog of interviews and
excerpts from selected testimonies are available online.

Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive
http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/

"Since the project began in 1981, Dr. Sid Bolkosky, Professor of
History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, has interviewed nearly 180
survivors of the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews. These testimonies are
recorded in over 200 audio and video taped oral interviews for over 650
hours of recorded histories. Once transcribed, interviews are entered into
the online catalog of the Mardigian Library. Additional interviews are
being transcribed and made available."

Yizkor Books On-Line - The New York Public Library Dorot Jewish Division
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/jws/yizkorbooks_intro.cfm

Yizkor books [English: memorial books] are very valuable research
resources on the Holocaust as they contain the histories, biographies,
statistics, and other documentary evidence--in many cases, the only
comprehensive data and text on the Jewish communities of Europe destroyed
by the Nazis. Yizkor books also often contain the Jewish history of these
cities, towns and villages before, during, and after the Holocaust. This
incredible digital, full-image/text resource contains "650 of the 700
postwar yizkor books at The New York Public Library are accessible online
in their entirety."

The Simon Wiesenthal Center
http://www.wiesenthal.com/

A major Holocaust resource, "The Simon Wiesenthal 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, antisemitism,
terrorism and genocide and is accredited as an NGO both at the United
Nations and UNESCO." Breaking news reports, full-text versions of SWC
publications, digital archives (password protected), and others are
available. Among related sites is the Museum of Tolerance that focuses on
the history of the Holocaust as well as racism and prejudice in the
USA.

Official Site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Oswiecim,
Poland
http://www.auschwitz-muzeum.oswiecim.pl/

The site dedicated to preserving the history of the most notorious
of the Nazi death Camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau, "a symbol of terror,
genocide, and the Holocaust." The web site covers the history of the
Auschwitz Concentration Camp, including the establishment and expansion of
the camp, total number of victims and their places of origin, and
liberation; how the museum is structured; commemorations of the 60th
anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz; and a searchable database,
Death Books, containing the names, birth and death dates, birthplace,
place of residence and religious affiliation. Web text and searching
capabilities in Polish, English, and German.

The March of the Living
http://www.motl.org/

The March of the Living is an international program that takes
teenagers on guided visits to sites of concentration camps, ghettos, other
killing sites, deportation areas, and memorials in Europe with the aim of
educating the participants on what the lessons of the Holocaust are and to
make sure that such horrific actions will never recur. Photos of past and
recent marches are linked to the site.

We Remember Shoah! Shoah - Holocaust Links
http://www.zchor.org/LINKSHOA.HTM

Links to 90 Holocaust sites.