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Holocaust
This excellent site "features original articles about the Holocaust, a bulletin board and chat room for online discussion, a timeline, a glossary, and a continually growing collection of annotated links for research and study."
Maintained by Jennifer Rosenberg

Cybrary of the Holocaust
A moving site with images, interviews, children's essays and artwork, and discussion forums. Also included are online books by survivors, education resources, and much more.
By Michael Dunn

PBS - Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
Companion to the January-February 2005 TV broadcast.
Sections include: Maps & Plans ; Timeline ; About the Series ; Learning Resources ; Auschwitz 1940-1945 ; Understanding Auschwitz Today ; Dachau 1974.

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Anne Frank and the Holocaust
"This site contains resources for the study of Anne Frank and the Holocaust. We have written it to coincide with the Anne Frank: a History for Today exhibition which tours the UK continuously..."
Sections include: Exhibition ; Sources ; Teaching ; Gallery ; Links.

Association of Holocaust Organizations

Beth Shalom Holocaust Web Centre
"The Beth Shalom Holocaust Web Centre acts as a central hub for three distinct main sites:

  • Holocaustcentre.net explains the nature and purpose of the Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre, and provides the opportunity for people to access its services and become involved in its work.
  • Holocausthistory.net provides a modular introduction to the Holocaust in its historical context. Aimed primarily at secondary school pupils, it is useful for anyone encountering the subject for the first time.
  • Holocaustbookstore.net is a highly professional online retail store run by Beth Shalom, specialising exclusively in Holocaust and Genocide related books and resources. Any profits from this site are used directly to support the work of the Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre.

The Web Centre also provides a hub for Beth Shalom 'project' sites:

  • Aegistrust.org details the Aegis Genocide Prevention Initiative, launched by Beth Shalom's directors in 2000 to identify the causes, predict the development and prevent the incidence of genocide.
  • RFTF.org represents 'Remembering for the Future', a highly respected scholars' platform for the development of the field of Holocaust and genocide studies, which has now been brought under the auspices of Beth Shalom."

Claims Conference
Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
"The mission of the Claims Conference over its 50-year history has always been to secure what we consider a small measure of justice for Jewish victims of Nazi persecution. We have pursued this goal through a combination of negotiations, disbursing funds to individuals and organizations, and seeking the return of Jewish property lost during the Holocaust."

The Doctors Trial
The Medical Case of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings
Online exhibit from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies
Sections include: Exploring Our Heritage ; Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) [Speak Ladino in an Audio Chat] ; Publications ; History ; Biographies.

  • Portraits of our Past
    The Sephardic Communities of Greece and the Holocaust
    Section of this physical exhibit available online is Background on the Communities.

Gendercide Watch
 "...seeks to confront gender-selective atrocities against men and women worldwide. In addition to including explanatory materials on gendercide as a global phenomenon, we feature a wide range of detailed case-studies, both historical and contemporary (including the Jewish holocaust). More case-studies will be added in coming months."

H-Holocaust Home Page
"...exists so scholars of the Holocaust can communicate with each other using this innovative and exciting new technology, and makes available diverse bibliographical, research and teaching aids."
Includes archives of all past discussions, review projects, academic announcements, resources, and Internet links. The links are more academic than those listed in the Cybrary of the Holocaust.

The Holocaust
The Holocaust Table of Contents page from the excellent Jewish Student Online Research Center (JSOURCE)
- The American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Holocaust
Sections include: Schindler ; Holocaust ; Bios ; Poetry ; Photos ; Books ; Search ; Links ; Auschwitz ; Bergen-Belsen ; Belzec ; Sobibor ; Treblinka.
By Louis B¸low

Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center
"...is a national clearinghouse for persons seeking the fates of loved ones missing since the Holocaust and its aftermath. We assist U.S. residents searching for proof of internment, forced/slave labor, or evacuation from former Soviet territories on themselves or family members. This documentation may be required for reparations."
- American Red Cross

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 Heroes - (dead link)
"...devoted to honoring the brave men and women who risked their lives to rescue and shelter Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazi reign of terror. A major thrust of its mission will be to recognize the rescue activity of the many church groups whose work has been marginalized by too many Holocaust writers and historians."

The Holocaust History Project
"The Holocaust History Project is a free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust-denial."

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 Resources on the Internet
"This is the Holocaust section of WWW-Virtual Library Network of indexes to History materials on-line. It is intended for general public use, but its coverage and selection of sites concentrates on creating a useful for those pursuing historical research...This site is also the catalogue of Holocaust resources in the History branch of WWW-Virtual Library Germany."

Holocaust Restitution: Swiss, Swedish French and British Bank and Insurance Accounts
The Simon Wiesenthal Center

Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation (Swiss Banks)
CV-96-4849
"This is the official information website for the Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation against Swiss Banks and other Swiss Entities."

Holocaust: An Introductory Research Guide
Sections include: Reference Sources ; Databases & Electronic Journals ; Primary Sources ; Other Internet Sites.
Good for a general bibliography of print resources.
By Eric Nitschke, Librarian, Emory University

Holocaust/Shoah
A very well organized site including sections on Organizations, Archives & References, Personal Responses, Educational Projects & Tools, List & Conference Archives, Survivors & Rescuers, and The Third Reich.
His listing of archives & references is especially useful
Maintained by David Dickerson

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Holocaust Video Testimony - (dead link)
"...provides information and resources related to the academic study of Holocaust testimony preserved in audiovisual form and assists in the diffusion of information about archival resources and related works, including selected excerpts from recording initiatives in the United States and abroad."
Includes a nice page of Resources.

International List of Current Activities Regarding Holocaust Victims' Assets
Project maintained by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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The Looting of Furniture from Jewish Households
"The exhibit in the "Imperial Court Depot of Movables" deals with the "aryanisation" of eight Jewish households whose confiscated furnishings were stored in the state "Depot of Movables". In mounting this exhibition, the institution is focusing on two issues: its involvement in the national socialists' racist policy of expropriation some 60 years ago, and how it dealt with this confiscated property in the decades following 1945."
Institut f¸r Interdisziplin‰re Forschung und Fortbildung der Universit‰ten Klagenfurt, Wien, Graz und Innsbruck

The Jewish Student Online Research Center (JSOURCE) - The Holocaust
A nice listing of links including some documents.

Jews Murdered by Country in Europe
"Source: Cited in Landau, The Nazi Holocaust, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1994. These data originally appeared in Poliakov and Wulf (eds), Das Dritte Reich und die Juden: Documente und Aufsatze (Arani Verlag, GmbH, Berlin, 1955)."
From Ben S. Austin's Holocaust\Shoah Page

March of the Living International
"...is an international, educational program that brings Jewish teens from all over the world to Poland on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, to march from Auschwitz to Birkenau, the largest concentration camp complex built during World War II, and then to Israel to observe Yom HaZikaron, Israel Memorial Day, and Yom Ha'Atzmaut, Israel Independence Day."

The Nizkor Project
"A collage of projects focused on the Holocaust, and its denial"
Includes FAQs, Features, Holocaust Web Project, Holocaust Search Engine, and Shofar FTP Archives.

Patrin: Roma (Gypsies) in the Holocaust (Porraimos)
"The following links provide documentation of Roma persecution. Some sites provide graphic images and descriptions of crimes against the Roma, as well as the Jewish people and other minorities."

PBS - Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
Companion to the January-February 2005 TV broadcast.
Sections include: Maps & Plans ; Timeline ; About the Series ; Learning Resources ; Auschwitz 1940-1945 ; Understanding Auschwitz Today ; Dachau 1974.

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.

Shoa.de (German)
"Holocaust und Shoah. Das grosse Portal zu den Themen: Shoa, Holocaust, Antisemitismus, Drittes Reich, Zweiter Weltkrieg und Nationalsozialismus."

The Story of Oscar Schindler
Rake - and Saviour
By Louis B¸low

Tunnel and Shelter Researching

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  • Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
  • Committee on Conscience
    "...mandate is...to alert the national conscience, influence policy makers, and stimulate worldwide action to confront and work to halt acts of genocide or related crimes against humanity."
    Includes "websites documenting genocide, ethnic strife, war crimes, and human rights violations worldwide."
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Historical Topics
     Explore the history of the Holocaust
  • Library
  • Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
  • Szpilman's Warsaw: The History behind The Pianist
    "The recently released movie The Pianist is set in Holocaustñera Warsaw and tells the remarkable story of PolishñJewish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman. Hunger and hiding, resistance both spiritual and violent, conscious choices and sheer luckóall of these played a role in the unlikely survival of Szpilman and the fate of hundreds of thousands of other Jews under Nazi control in Warsaw. Collected here are some of the resources available on the Museum's Web site about Wladyslaw Szpilman and the history of Warsaw during the Holocaust."

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.

Witness to the Holocaust - (dead link)
"The Fred Roberts Crawford Witness to the Holocaust Project Files, 1978-1983 provide a significant contribution to Holocaust research. The Project documented the liberation of concentration camps in Europe at the end of World War II...The collection consists of 43 boxes (ca. 15 linear feet) of transcripts, documentation, photographs, audiotapes, films, and videotapes, housed in the Woodruff Library of Emory University. This web page highlights a selection of materials from that collection."
Georgia Tech Library & Information Center

Women and the Holocaust
Topics include Interpretive Reflective Academic Essays, Women Rescuers, Bibliography and much more

Yad Vashem on the Internet
 "Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, was established in 1953 by an act of the Israeli Knesset...Yad Vashem's task is to perpetuate the legacy of the Holocaust to future generations so that the world never forgets the horrors and cruelty of the Holocaust. Its principal missions are commemoration and documentation of the events of the Holocaust, collection, examination and publication of testimonies to the Holocaust, the collection and memorialization of the names of Holocaust victims, research and education."

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