Background Sources
Encyclopedia of Holocaust literatureCall Number: PN56.H55E53 2002This encyclopedia presents the lives and works of 128 writers whose contributions lend significant first-generation understanding to the Holocaust.
Historical atlas of the HolocaustCall Number: ATLAS G1797.21.E29H5 1996The Atlas presents the story of the Holocaust in all its specific geographical details - country by country, ghetto by ghetto, camp by camp.
Oxford handbook of Holocaust studiesCall Number: D804.3.O94 2010This Handbook is thematically divided into five broad sections: Enablers, Protagonists, Settings, Representations, and Aftereffects. It draws on the work of an international team of over forty outstanding scholars.
Personal Testimonies
- Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust TestimoniesA collection of over 4,400 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust.
- Holocaust and the Kindertransport: Vera's StoryVera Gissing talks about the painful decision her parents had to make to transport her from Czechoslovakia to England.
- Oma & BellaCall Number: DVD HQ1172.O43 2013Two older Jewish women, best friends who live together in Berlin, are Holocaust survivors who have remained in Germany since the war.
- One survivor remembersCall Number: DVD D804.47.K54 2005Gerda Weissmann Klein takes us on her journey of Holocaust survival through a series of interviews, photographs and footage shot in the actual locations of her memories.
Liberation 1945: testimonyCall Number: DVD D805.A2L52 1995
Holocaust Museums
- Auschwitz-Birkenau State MuseumA memorial and museum in Oświęcim (German: Auschwitz), Poland, which includes the German concentration camps Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau. It is devoted to the memory of the murders in both camps during World War II.--Wikipedia
- Holocaust Memorial CenterIn Budapest
- Judenplatz Holocaust MemorialIn Vienna
- Montreal Holocaust Memorial CentreThe Centre promotes respect for diversity and the sanctity of human life.
- Simon Wiesenthal CenterA global Jewish human rights organization that confronts anti-Semitism, hate and terrorism, promotes human rights and dignity, stands with Israel, defends the safety of Jews worldwide, and teaches the lessons of the Holocaust for future generations.
- United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumLocated among our national monuments to freedom on the National Mall in Washington, DC, the Museum provides a powerful lesson in the fragility of freedom, the myth of progress, and the need for vigilance in preserving democratic values.
- Yad VashemThe digital archives include the Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names, with five million-plus records.
