Researching the Jewish Holocaust:
an Annotated List of Resources

Web Sites / Library Databases / Books / Video / Citing Sources

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org/
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country's memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust.

The American Experience - America and the Holocaust
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/
The PBS web site which accompanies the video series

The Jewish Virtual Library - The Holocaust
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/holo.html
The Jewish Virtual Library (formerly the Jewish Student Online Research Center – JSOURCE) is the most comprehensive online Jewish encyclopedia in the world, covering everything from anti-Semitism to Zionism. So far, more than 8,000 articles and 3,000 photographs and maps have been integrated into the site.

The German Propaganda Archive
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/index.htm
Randall L. Bytwerk, a professor of Communications at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, operates this site. He is the author of many books and articles on German propaganda.

The Jewish Holocaust 1933-1945
http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/Holocaust.htm
This site is sponsored by the University of West England and the webmaster is Saul D. Stein, a professor of Economics and Social Science and is part of the Web Genocide Documentation Center. It contains the most extensive collection of documents related to the Holocaust that I could find on the web. There are also extensive background materials, including a good timeline - which is available by returning to his homepage using the sitemap at the left and choosing Jewish Holocaust Timeline.

Holocaust Era Assets Main Page (from the National Archives)
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/holocaust_era_assets/index.html
Their Related Web Sites are very good.

Simon Wiesenthal Center Multimedia Learning Center Online
http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/index.html
Click on Special Collections to retrieve primary documents. (Many are not in English - Long Dark Nazi Years is a book that contains many primary documents relating to the Holocaust). Also check out the Virtual Exhibits, Teacher's Resources and Multimedia Learning Center.

Yale University, Avalon Project: Nuremberg Trials
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/imt.htm
Scroll to the bottom of the page to find specific documents or search for keyword(s) in the document. This site is sponsored by the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.

Sites that provide reviews of web sites:
Librarian's Index to the Internet - http://www.lii.org/
The Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu

Check out the Web Site Evaluation worksheet when evaluating the credibiliity of an Internet site.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers - The New York Times
The full text of the newspaper is searchable from 1851-1999. Articles are available in PDF. It is best to search this database in conjunction with a chronology - limiting your search to a specific date or date range.

Historical Abstracts
Historical Abstracts contains annotated references to historical writings (journals, dissertations & books) covering the years 1450 to the present. There are over 499,000 entries from more than 50 languages. This database excludes the United States and Canada, which are covered in America:History and Life. Links to full text documents that appear in JSTOR are available. Otherwise, search for the Journal Title in the Library Catalog to check for local holdings.

Books
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Reference Books

The Encyclopedia of the Holocaust / Israel Gutman, editor in chief
Mortola Library Reference - D804.3.E53 1990 (vols. 1-4)
This is the a 4 volume comprehensive reference to the Holocaust. The entries are arranged alphabetically and volume 4 contains a glossary, chronology, and an index.

Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature
Mortola Library Reference - PN56.H55 E53 2002
The Bibliography of Primary Holocaust Literature at the end of the book provides a good list of works about the Holocaust - the memoirs would be most appropriate for research.

The Macmillan Atlas of the Holocaust / Martin Gilbert
Mortola Library Reference - G1797.21.E29 G54


Searching for Books
These are recommended Subject Headings to use when searching for books in the Library Catalog related to the Holocaust.

Holocaust, Jewish 1939 1945 Sources
Jews Germany History 1933 1945 Sources
Germany Ethnic relations Sources
Holocaust Jewish 1939-1945
Holocaust Jewish 1939 1945 Causes
Holocaust Jewish 1939 1945 Fiction
Holocaust Jewish 1939 1945 Public Opinion
World War 1939 1945
World War 1939 1945 Atrocities
Concentration Camps
Concentration Camps Germany


Video
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Triumph of the will / producer, director, and editor, Leni Riefenstahl
Mortola Video - DD253.25 .R5 1993

A pictorial record of the sixth Nazi congress at Nuremberg, and a controversial propaganda film on Nazi Germany. It shows troops of Hitler youth at play, ranks of laborers, parades of storm troopers, close-ups of Hitler, etc., creating a mystical, primitive union between the dictator and his followers and exalting Nazi unity in Germany.

Also check out video online from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collections at http://www.ushmm.org/research/collections/

Citing Sources
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For more information regarding how to cite sources. Try these links
http://www.pace.edu/library/pages/instruct/citing.html
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/