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Andrea Dworkin Online Library
Include: Nonfiction ; Fiction ; Speeches ; Essays and Articles ; Interviews ; Nicole Brown Simpson ; The Antipornography Civil Rights Ordinance.

Fred R. Crawford Witness to the Holocaust Project Files
"The collection includes audio and video recordings of oral histories with liberators, survivors and others; transcriptions of oral history interviews [60% will be digitized]; photographs [30% will be digitized], slides and films donated by liberators; Project publications; and television programs produced by the Project.
Part of SAGE : Selected Archives at Georgia Tech and Emory

The Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress
"The papers of the author, educator, and political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) are one of the principal sources for the study of modern intellectual life. Located in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress, they constitute a large and diverse collection reflecting a complex career. With over 25,000 items (about 75,000 digital images), the papers contain correspondence, articles, lectures, speeches, book manuscripts, transcripts of Adolf Eichmannís trial proceedings, notes, and printed matter pertaining to Arendt's writings and academic career ... Parts of the collection will be made available for public access on the Internet. The current preview of selections from Arendt's writings also includes an essay on Arendt's intellectual history, a chronology of her life, and an index of all folders in the Arendt Papers."
American Memory, Library of Congress

Holocaust: An Online Magazine for Post-Holocaust Issues

Holocaust Essays: The Story of Raoul Wallenberg
 By Jeanine Rauch

The Holocaust Chronicle
 "...the bookís companion project, a detailed, cross-referenced Holocaust Chronicle Web site that will include the bookís complete text and a revolving selection of images. Because Holocaust-related developments cross news wires daily, the Web site will be updated continually."

Holocaust Denial on Trial
David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt
"This site is built around the defense's groundbreaking research, the riveting trial-room testimony, and the judge's historic opinion which found Irving to be a 'right-wing pro-Nazi polemicist' who 'deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence.'"
Includes trial transcripts and extensive secondary documentation.
By Witness to the Holocaust Program and Institute for Jewish Studies, Emory University

Holocaust Glossary

Holocaust on Trial
NOVA Online
"...the companion Web site to 'Holocaust on Trial,' The film uses a celebrated recent trial as a springboard to examine and successfully challenge the notion of Holocaust denial."
Sections include: Timeline of Nazi Abuses ; The Director's Story ; Results of Death-Camp Experiments: Should They Be Used? ; Exposing Flawed Science ; Resources ; Transcript.

Holocaust Survivors

Holocaust Translations
By Kenneth Kronenberg

HOLOCAUST: The Untold Story
"...Although major American newspapers had been receiving reports of the mass extermination of Jews in Europe, the stories rarely reached the front pages, except in the Jewish press. Could a more aggressive press in the United States during World War II have saved lives? This exhibit dispels the myth that the Holocaust was a secret and explores the reasons why America's newspapers downplayed the horrifying reports from Europe."
Online exhibit from Newsuem.

holocuast-info (English or Danish)
"The site primarily features materials relating to the Aktion Reinhard camps with an emphasis on photographic material. The photographs have been taken during five journeys to Poland in the period 1999-2001. The site also features a large collection of materials about the Nazi propaganda-film "The Eternal Jew" prepared by the late scholar Stig Hornsh¯j-M¯ller."
By Mikkel Andersson

Humor as a Defense Mechanism in the Holocaust
Abstract of Thesis Submitted (and confirmed) for the Degree of "Doctor of Philosophy" to the Senate of Tel-Aviv University
By Chaya Ostrower

IDEA
"...is an electronic journal created for the exchange of ideas related mainly, to cults, mass movements, autocratic power, war, genocide, democide, holocaust, and murder."

Index of Holocaust Bibliographies
Over 50 bibliographies from the Simon Wiesenthal Center page

International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg
The Nizkor Project

Justiz und NS-Verbrechen (German or English)
Die deutschen Strafverfahren wegen nationalsozialistischer Tˆtungsverbrechen, 1945-1999.
[Nazi Crimes on Trial : German Trials Concerning Nationalist Socialist Homicidal Crimes, 1945-1999]
English version in progress.
Compiled at the Institute of Criminal Law, University of Amsterdam

Lost Art Internet Database
"...a project of both, the Federal Government of Germany and its Federal States ("L‰nder"). It registers cultural goods which were transported or stolen because of persecution, especially of Jewish citizens, as a result of World War II or as a result of National Socialism...The project is realized in co-operation of the Coordination Office and the Institute for Technical and Business Information Systems of the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg."

Nazi and East German Propaganda - Anti-Semitism
"Propaganda was central to Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic. The German Propaganda Archive includes both propaganda itself and material produced for the guidance of propagandists. The goal is to help people understand the two great totalitarian systems of the 20th Century by giving them access to the primary material."
Maintained by Randall Bytwerk, Calvin College

New York Public Library

  • Letters to Sala: A Young Woman's Life in Nazi Labor Camps
    Sections include: Introduction ; Sala's Europe, 1939-1945 ; Prewar Jewish Life and Deportation ; Nazi Slave Labor Camps ; The Judenrat ; Geppersdorf ; Nazi Postal System ; Ala Gertner ; Sala's Labor Camps ; Jewish Holidays ; Harry Haubenstock ; Schatzlar ; Liberation ; In America.

New York University Libraries - Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

  • Labor & The Holocaust: The Jewish Labor Committee And The Anti-Nazi Struggle
    "This exhibit [from 1997] presents a portfolio of a hundred photographs and documents from the JLC Collection. The text has been adapted from an article by JLC archivist Gail Malmgreen, originally published in Labor's Heritage (October 1991). The exhibit's seven pictorial sections take the viewer on a chronological journey, from the origins of the JLC, through its anti-Nazi activity of the 1930s, to early rescue efforts and wartime assistance to the anti-Nazi Underground, and then examines three aspects of postwar aid and reconstruction. A final section offers a bibliography of resources for further study."

Newseum
The Interactive Museum of News

  • Holocaust: The Untold Story
     "The exhibit is based on a TV documentary of the same name that was written and produced by the Newseum and is scheduled to premiere on The History Channel."

Northwestern University Block Museum of Art

  • Last Expression: Art from Auschwitz
     "...a forum to explore the roles, functions, meanings and making of art in the Nazi concentration camps of World War II, focusing on the notorious site of Auschwitz-Birkenau."

The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
The International Military Tribunal for Germany
Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946.
"Trial against H.W. Gˆring, R. Hess, J. von Ribbentrop, R. Ley, W. Keitel, E. Kaltenbrunner, A. Rosenberg, H. Frank, W. Frick, J. Streicher, W. Funk, H. Schacht, G. Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, K. Dˆnitz, E. Raeder, B. von Schirach, F. Sauckel, A. Jodl, M. Bormann, F. von Papen, A. Seyss- Inquart, A. Speer, C. von Neurath, and H. Fritzsche, individually and as members of any groups or organizations to which they belonged."
"The proceedings are published in English, French, Russian, and German ... The documents admitted in evidence are printed only in their original language..."
- The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School

Other Voices
The (e)Journal of Cultural Criticism
"...regularly publishes provocative essays, interviews, lecture transcriptions, hypermedia projects, translations and reviews in the arts and humanities; covering philosophy, literature, visual art, music, and theory in a variety of traditional and non-traditional forms."
Published by the University of Pennsylvania

Positive Holocaust Education
Jewish Professional Institute
Site includes The Second World War and Jewish Education in America: The Fall and Rise of Orthodox by Rabbi Yitschak Rudomin. A complete online version of his original Columbia University Masters Thesis.

Responses to the Holocaust
A Hypermedia Archive for the Humanities
"...is 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."
A very well done and thought provoking multimedia presentation.
By Rob Leventhal

Raoul Wallenberg Project Interviews

Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion - The Nuremberg Project - (dead link)
"...will post documents from the Donovan collection to its web site approximately every six months.  Scholarly commentary on these postings will be published on a rolling basis, so please check back frequently."

  • "Nuremberg trial records and papers of famed WWII general come to CU [Cornell University]" From Cornell Chronicle
    "...The Donovan papers include close to 150 bound volumes, comprising both original documents and copies. Some of the documents bear Donovan's personal annotations, and many are marked "top secret." The material includes transcripts in German and English as well as background memoranda and evidentiary analyses of the defendants..."

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

University of Minnesota - Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS)
Sections include: Virtual Museum of Holocaust and Genocide Art ; Histories, Narratives, Documents ; Educational Resources ; Links & Bibliography.

Voices of the Holocaust
A Documentary Project by the Illinois Institute of Technology
"During the summer of 1998, Galvin Library staff uncovered a 16-volume set of typescripts that detail first-hand accounts of horrible brutality, incredible survival, and liberation of Holocaust victims. The set includes 70 of the original 109 interviews that were conducted in 1946 and transcribed into English by Dr. David Boder...This site will integrate, in the near future, the transcriptions of the interviews, reproductions of the original wire recordings, maps, essays by scholars and survivors, papers of Dr. Boder, and other information from our archives, into a seamless, searchable, multimedia Web site."

Yad Vashem On-line Magazine - (dead link)

Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Online Galleries
"View samples from and read about some of YIVO's current and recent exhibitions and explore examples of artifacts from the Archives and Photographic collections by touring the online galleries listed below."

Images
Cybrary of the Holocaust: Images
Sections include Images & Vision, and Photos from History.

Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
"A collection of over 3,700 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust, the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies is part of Manuscripts and Archives, at Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University."

The Holocaust Album
A Collection of Historical and Contemporary Photographs
By Ron Greene

Holocaust Pictures Exhibition
By  FranÁois Schmitz

Northwestern University Block Museum of Art

  • Last Expression: Art from Auschwitz
     "...a forum to explore the roles, functions, meanings and making of art in the Nazi concentration camps of World War II, focusing on the notorious site of Auschwitz-Birkenau."

University of Minnesota - Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS)
Sections include: Virtual Museum of Holocaust and Genocide Art ; Histories, Narratives, Documents ; Educational Resources ; Links & Bibliography.

See also our Holocaust Museum Exhibits page.

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"...is a new mailing list that seeks to broaden the discussion of genocide with an open forum on genocides past and present. Some of the themes to be addressed are: the causes of genocide; genocide scholars and scholarship; definitional debates; and current or potential genocides around the world."

H-Holocaust
"H-Holocaust exists so scholars of the Holocaust can communicate with each other using this innovative and exciting new technology. This is primarily, though not exclusively an academic list. Coverage of the list will include the Holocaust itself, and closely related topics like anti-semitism, and Jewish history in the 1930s and 1940s, as well as closely related themes in the history of WW2, Germany, and international diplomacy."

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