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Beyond the Holocaust: Survival or Extinction
Survivor Peter Zuckerman's online book

Genya Koren - A Memorial Site
Polska 1922 - Israel 1998
Dedicated to Genya Koren who escaped from Ghetto Levov.

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.

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.

Resources for Children of Holocaust Survivors
The listing includes Studies/Presentations, Support Groups/Professional Help, Conferences/Organizations, and Books/Videos
By Judy Meschel

Schindler Survivors
Chronicles survivors Murray Pantirer, Abraham Zuckerman, Poldek Pfefferberg, and  Anna Duklauer Perl.
By Louis B¸low

Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
"Founded by Steven Spielberg in 1994...Dedicated to videotaping and archiving interviews of Holocaust survivors all over the world."

University of Sussex - Centre for German-Jewish Studies

• Holocaust Education Resources
  "This site is aimed at teachers and students of the Holocaust. Increasing numbers of people are learning about the Holocaust in schools and universities. This is a unique site because it is based on material from survivors and refugees from the Holocaust, held in the archives of the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex. The archives are broad-based: personal and family papers of German-Jewish refugees from the Nazis in the 1930s; and of the art works and personal papers of Arnold Daghani, a survivor of the Holocaust..."

Voice Vision: Holocaust Survivor Oral Histories
"Dr. Sid Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, has interviewed over 150 survivors of the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews. His interviews with these survivors are recorded on about 330 hours of audio tapes and 60 hours of video tapes."

Voices of the Holocaust
"This web resource consists of oral history testimonies gathered from Jewish men and women who came to live in Britain. These testimonies are personal, individual, true stories, which describe life during the Holocaust."
Sections include: Topics for Students ; Teachers' Information ; Testimony Library ; Student Information Cards ; Reference.
The British Library - Living Words

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."

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

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