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Syllabus & Professor’s Suggested Bibliography
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World War 1939-1945 Jewish Resistance
Adler, C. (Ed.). (1964). The Jewish encyclopedia; a descriptive record of the history, religion, literature, and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest times (Vols. 1–10). New York: Ktav Pub. House. Call No: DS102.8.J4 A3
Alpher, J. (Ed.). (1986).Encyclopedia of Jewish history : events and eras of the Jewish people. New York: Facts on File. Call No: DS118 .E465 1986b
Cohen, S. S. (Ed.). (1987).Antisemitism : an annotated bibliography (Vols. 1–3). New York: Garland.
Call No: DS145 .A5747
Levy, R. (Ed.). (2005).Antisemitism : a historical encyclopedia of prejudice and persecution (Vols 1–2). Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. Call No: DS146.E8 A58 2005
Wistrich, R. (Ed.). (1982).Who’s who in Nazi Germany. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
Call No: CT1063 .W48 1982b
Newspapers
Newspapers: Historical & Current Events
International Newspapers (Suffolk County Public ID Card Required)
New York Online Virtual Electronic Library (NOVELNY) (NYS Drivers License or NY Public Library Card Required)
Databases by Subject
Search the Journal Locator for online availability of journals or view subject specific journals below:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Journal of Holocaust Education
New York Times Historical Newspapers (1851-2004)
War Crimes, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust - Bibliographies
Extensive lists by topic and/or age group, maintained by the University of South Florida.
Anti-Defamation League's Holocaust Information Center
Provides current articles, information and valuable links to on-going and relevant international events which continue to surround the Holocaust.
ASC4170 Custom Holocaust Search
Brought to you courtesy of the software Rollyo this site offers a strong selection of Holocaust websites for students to search. Simply enter your search terms and select Holocaust.
Login required - ID: asc4170 PW: student.
Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR)
Founded in 1941 by Jewish refugees from central Europe, the AJR has extensive experience attending to the needs of Holocaust 70,000 refugees(including the 10,000 from the Kindertransport) and survivors who came to this country before, during and after the Second World War.
Catalog to Holocaust Related Website Links
Maintained by Yad Vashem. Provides a comprehensive list of links to historical information, museums, foundations, Holocaust camps and Antisemitism websites.
Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies
The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies is a resource for information and teaching about the Holocaust and contemporary aspects of genocide as defined by the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide (1948) as well as varying definitions by university scholars and researchers.
David S Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies
The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies teaches the history and lessons of America’s response to the Holocaust, through scholarly research, public events, publications, and educational programs.
Based on the research of Professor David S. Wyman concerning America’s response to Nazism and the Holocaust, the Wyman Institute focuses on the abandonment of Europe’s Jews during the Nazi era, the efforts to promote rescue, and the moral and historical lessons of those experiences.
Genocide Watch
Genocide Watch exists to predict, prevent, stop, and punish genocide and other forms of mass murder. This authoritative site seeks to raise awareness and influence public policy concerning potential and actual genocide.
German Propaganda Archive
Courtesy of Calvin College. This site offers a collection of English translations of propaganda material from Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic. Includes copies of posters, speeches, photos and more.
Holocaust Chronicle
The Holocaust Chronicle Web site contains every word and a generous selection of images from the 700+ companion book of the same title. Information found in this book and on this Web site has been gathered and fact-checked by top Holocaust scholars.
Holocaust Denial
Maintained as a joint project of Emory University and Emory's Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, its mission is to educate the public about the threat Holocaust denial poses to history, society, law and identity. Includes a collection of primary documents and educational materials as aids to students, teachers, journalists, and the general public.
Holocaust Encyclopedia
Maintained by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Contains articles about refugees, the liberation, trials for war crimes and much, much more. Information also available in either French or Spanish.
Holocaust Research Project (.org)
Maintained the the Holocaust Education And Research Team (HEART) provides extensive information on ghettos, timelines, economics of the holocaust, camps, the resistance, trials and much more. Includes survivor stories and an image gallery as well.
Holocaust Teacher Resource Center
Educators, (kindergarten through college) will find at this site materials which can be brought into the classroom and studied. Whenever possible entire documents are included and may be downloaded for direct use in the classroom.
Jewish Virtual Library
The Jewish Virtual Library is a very comprehensive online Jewish encyclopedia, covering everything from anti-Semitism to Zionism. More than 13,000 articles and 6,000 photographs and maps have been integrated into the site. The Library has 13 wings: History, Women, The Holocaust, Travel, Israel & The States, Maps, Politics, Biography, Israel, Religion, Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress, Vital Statistics and Reference.
Kindertransport Association
The Kindertransport Association (KTA) is a not-for-profit organization of child Holocaust survivors who were sent, without their parents, out of Austria, Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia to Great Britain. KTA members include many who came to live in the United States of America or Canada, and their subsequent generations. National Office based out of Hicksville, NY.
Nizkor Project: Holocaust Denial
Site which monitors falsehoods and misinformation relative to the Holocaust as well as provides quick links to many relative points of information.
Remember.org
A Holocaust 'Cybrary', this site contains images, educational information, virtual tours of concentration camps and the journeys of Holocaust Survivors through interactive maps.
Timeline of the Holocaust
This link from remember.org provides a quick snapshot of the timeline and major events of the Holocaust. From the Survivors of Shoah Study Guide.
Women and the Holocaust
In 2001, the New Jersey Council for the Humanities was awarded special funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a scholarly examination of women’s experiences during the Holocaust. The grant allowed NJCH to assemble a faculty of Holocaust scholars with expertise in history, literature, film, visual arts and women’s studies to provide leadership for the Women and the Holocaust seminar. Access to lesson plans, assessment tools and links to related resources is provided.
Adopt a Survivor - Extending the Life and Legacy of a Holocaust Survivor Youth Program
Holocaust survivors are aging or dying and eventually will not be here for future generations. Adopt a Survivor hopes to have these powerful memories and personal accounts "adopted" by participating high school, college and graduate students. The site contains full program and contact details.
Chiune Sugihara Project - Holocaust Hero
This is a free site. It is the website of the Sugihara Project. It has a database of "the names and visa dates of 2,139 Polish, Lithuanian, German, Dutch and Russian Jews, all of whom were saved by passports from the Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara." Site also contains information about Sugihara, his wife and additional informational links.
Holocaust and Rwanda Survivors Join Forces on Tolerance Message
Surprising Soul Mates: David Gewirtzman has been a speaker for the Nassau Holocaust Memorial since 1995. So poignant was one of his presentations, 10th grader Jacqueline Murekatete wrote a heartfelt letter to Gewirtzman expressing how as a survivor of Rwanda, she was completely able to identify with him and found many similarities in their life stories. Today, the pair tour all over the country to deliver a joint message of tolerance from two very different worlds which nevertheless suffered the same outcome. Streaming video available.
JewishGen Holocaust Database
JewishGen's Holocaust Database is a collection of component databases containing information about Holocaust victims and survivors. It incorporates over 100 datasets which contain over 1.1 million entries.
Raoul Wallenberg International Foundation - Holocaust Hero
This Swedish diplomat and Holocaust hero holds the Guinness Book of Records under the Saving of Life category. Wallenberg is estimated to have rescued nearly 100,000 Jews in Budapest, Hungary from July 1944 to January 1945.
Shoah Foundation Institute
Maintained by the University of Southern California, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education has an archive of nearly 52,000 videotaped testimonies from Holocaust survivors and other witnesses, is part of the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences at the University of Southern California. The USC Shoah Foundation Institute works with a global network of partners to provide an array of valuable educational services that reach educators, students, and the general public around the world.
Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial & Museum
Photos, maps, historical information and a bookstore are some of the many items available from this official memorial site.
CANDLES Holocaust Museum
CANDLES - Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors - is a unique site which devotes itself to survivors (then children) of Mengele's experiments. Founded in 1995 by a twin who survived, history as well as first hand accounts are provided.
Center for Jewish History (CJH) in NYC
The Center embodies a unique partnership of five major institutions of Jewish scholarship, history, and art: the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Sephardi Federation, the Leo Baeck Institute, the Yeshiva University Museum, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
The Center serves the worldwide academic and general communities with combined holdings of approximately 100 million archival documents, a half million books, and thousands of photographs, artifacts, paintings, and textiles—the largest repository documenting the Jewish experience outside of Israel. Located at 15W 16th St. NYC.
Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County
The mission of the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County is to teach the Holocaust, a unique catastrophe that reflects the horrors of antisemitism, and to demonstrate the destructive nature of prejudice, hatred, apathy, and violence against all minorities. The center seeks to promote an awareness and understanding of the tragic lessons of the Holocaust; to engender a commitment to actively resist discrimination and intolerance; and to nurture respect for the uniqueness of every human being in order to better enable people to live together in peace and harmony.
Holocaust Research Center and Archives - Queens Borough College
Widely acknowledged as the most extensive collection on the east coast. Resources and trunks available for teachers and educators.
Museum of Jewish Heritage - NYC
A living Memorial to the Holocaust. Located at 18 First Place at West Street and Battery Place.
Suffolk Center for the Holocaust, Diversity & Human Understanding
CHDHU maintains significant collections of original materials that document the Holocaust and chronicle slavery in America. CHDHU's mission is to educate the community on historical events and acts of genocide, such as the Holocaust, and on human rights atrocities, such as slavery, to teach and demonstrate approaches to preventing such acts and events from occurring in the future, and to foster peaceful coexistence in our community.
Temple Judea of Manhasset Holocaust Center
Temple Judea of Manhasset began its illustrious history in 1955 with 75 charter families. The mission of its Holocaust Center is to educate young and old on the evils of prejudice, to teach the lessons of the Holocaust and to combat ignorance, hatred and violence. The Center provides: Lectures by historians, scholars and educators, Testimony by Holocaust survivors, Permanent historical exhibits and much more.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provides a library with a full online catalog and librarian access, this site serves as a living memorial to the Holocaust. Its mission is to stimulate leaders and citizens to confront hatred, prevent genocide, promote human dignity, and strengthen democracy.
Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, is the Jewish people’s memorial as well as the world’s largest repository of information on the Holocaust. Yad Vashem is a leader in Shoah education, commemoration, research and documentation.
Art & Politics of Arthur Szyk
Maintained by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, this is a display of Szyk's political cartoons against the Nazi regime and racism.
Art & Remembrance
Art and Remembrance uses the power of personal narrative in various forms of art to illuminate the effects of war, intolerance, and other forms of social injustice. Maintained by Holocaust Museum, Houston, Texas.
Berga: American GI's in a Concentration Camp
Courtesy of PBS. It is the story of American GI's who worked as slave labor in Berga am Elster, a satellite concentration camp to the notorious Nazi death camp Buchenwald.
East German & Nazi Propoganda
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 twentieth century by giving them access to the primary material. Maintained by Calvin College.
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 Video Testimonies
The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, with an archive of nearly 52,000 videotaped testimonies from Holocaust survivors and other witnesses, is part of the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences at the University of Southern California. The USC Shoah Foundation Institute works with a global network of partners to provide an array of valuable educational services that reach educators, students, and the general public around the world.
Steven Spielberg's Jewish Film Archive
Contains a searchable catalog as well as a dedicated section to the Holocaust. Created in conjunction with The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue
From an originally published internet book, this site presents first hand accounts from 6 rescuers from 4 different countries.
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