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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
"A collection of over 4,000 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust...which are comprised of over 10,000 recorded hours of videotape. Testimonies are produced in cooperation with 37 affiliated projects across North America, South America, Europe, and Israel..."
The site includes excerpts of the testimonies, catalog and research guide, as well as a nice listing of educational resources.
Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University.

Simon Wiesenthal Center Library and Archives
"Library holdings include 30,000 books and periodicals. A separate collection includes historical and contemporary antisemitic and racist works in many languages...It is comprised of documents, letters, manuscripts, personal narratives, diaries, artifacts, ghetto and concentration camp postage and money, liberation and occupation memorabilia, photographs, magazines, newspapers, maps, posters, rare books, pamphlets and original artwork.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Film & Video Archive
"The Archive includes some 200 hours of motion picture footage... There also is extensive material on American responses to the events in Europe from 1933 to 1945, including rallies, protests, speeches, newsreel coverage, and radio broadcasts."

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library
"There are currently more than 22,200 books and journals in its multi-language collection."

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Archive
"The Oral History Archive contains more than 2,900 interviews, mostly in English. Some 300 of the videotaped interviews are of Polish Catholics, Roma and Sinti ("Gypsies"), political prisoners, homosexuals, resistance fighters, rescuers, liberators, and postwar prosecutors of Nazi crimes."

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archive
"Currently the Photo Archive holds more than 45,000 images. Approximately 35,000 are prints; the remainder are reference photocopies from archives in the United States, Europe, and Israel."

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

Yad Vashem Archive
"estimated at some 40-50 million pages. The collection includes documentation from Jewish sources, Nazi sources, and sources from the various authorities in other countries. The archives also contains a large collection of documentation from the postwar trials against Nazi war criminals- including the Nuremberg trials (IMT and subsequent trials)."

Yad Vashem Library
"As the largest such collection in the world, the library's holdings include over 70,000 books and article off-prints by title, as well as over 3,600 newspapers and journals by title."

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

• Resources for Studying the Holocaust

Museums and Memorials

Anne Frank House

C.A.N.D.L.E.S Holocaust Museum

Detroit's Holocaust Memorial Center - (dead link)
Includes their Newsletter, and Summaries of Oral History Interviews

El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center

Florida Holocaust Museum
Includes virtual tours & exhibits.

Ghetto Fighters House Museum
"It is unique among Holocaust museums in that it focuses on the history of the Jewish Resistance...The archives of the Ghetto Fighters' House contain many documents reflecting the fate of individual Jews and entire Jewish communities such as diaries, testimonies (from during and after the War), personal documents, newspapers (legal and illegal), letters, official correspondence of several Jewish institutions, registration of Displaced Persons, Dutch Archives, etc."

Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine

• inventARISIERT
  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."

The Peshev Memorial Home Page
"...Dimitar Peshev, the almost unknown Vice-President of the Bulgarian Parliament who in 1943 stopped the deportation of 48,000 Jews to death camps."

Holocaust Museum and Resource Center of Scranton, Pennsylvania

Holocaust Museum Houston

KZ Memorial Mittelwerk Dora

Museum of Jewish Heritage

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
"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 site Includes a number of online exhibits and is suitable for both school children and advanced scholars.

• Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
• Historical Topics
  Explore the history of the Holocaust
• Library
• Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
• Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
  Online Exhibition: Examine Key Artifacts ; Curator Overview ; Exhibition Narrative ; Video Testimony.
• Anne Frank the Writer: An Unfinished Story
  "Between the ages of 13 and 15, Anne Frank wrote short stories, fairy tales, essays, and the beginnings of a novel. Five notebooks and more than 300 loose pages, meticulously handwritten during her two years in hiding, survived the war. Launch the exhibition 'An Unfinished Story' to reveal the original writings; through sound and images of a young woman who had great ambition to be a writer and was exploring her craft."
  Sections include: Original Writings ; Interviews ; Web Links ; Share Your Thoughts.
• Holocaust Era in Croatia: Jasenovac 1941-1945 - (dead link)
  "This Web site chronicles crimes committed during the Holocaust in Croatia and highlights artifacts from the Jasenovac Memorial Area Collection."
• Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945
  "Through reproductions of some 250 historic photographs and documents, Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933ñ1945 examines the rationale, means, and impact of the Nazi regime's attempt to eradicate homosexuality that left thousands dead and shattered the lives of many more."
• 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."

Simon Wiesenthal Center
A gateway to the Museum of Tolerance, Cyberwatch Online Alert, online polls, library, archive, and much more

• Museum of Tolerance
  Includes online tour and the chilling Children of the Holocaust section.

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