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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Research Library Web Links The link collection available at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum web site is excellent. It provides a usefully categorized and well annotated cross section of Holocaust information. A number of the topical categories (e.g., one entitled, "Genocide and Human Rights,") provide links to material not readily available elsewhere.
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Brandeis University Libraries;European Experience & Holocaust Studies Very brief but helpful groups of website links: Museums and Archives; Universities and Institutes; Lists and Communities. A good quick reference.
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DMOZ Open Directory Project: [ there is here a direct link to Holocaust collection
] "...Constructed and maintained by a vast, global
community of volunteer editors." The Open Directory Project is, "…the
largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web…." DMOZ
provides links to websites on virtually every subject. An extremely
valuable source of information. The Holocaust collection subtopic divisions
are listed as follows [07/11/O9]. --
Arts, Camps,
Denial, Education,
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Museums
Netherlands, Nuremberg,
International Military Tribunal,
Organizations,
People, Poland, Romani -- The collection of links relating to <GYPSIES
(Romani)> as Holocaust victims is unusually extensive. GYPSIES
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Drew University Center
for Holocaust/Genocide Study has some unusual
items in its list of "Suggested Links." [detailed listing
below under the heading, "General & Topical Material"]
- Deutsches Historisches
Museum, Berlin (German Historical Museum,
Berlin)
This site has a creditable collection of links which includes a very unusual and extensive linked listing of the world’s museums: Linkseite des Deutschen Historischen Museums zu Museen im Internet.
Click Here for more details about this museum website => Deutsches Historisches Museum MUSEUMS
- Holocaust Home Page
is a part of Shamash, The Jewish Network, and has a number of useful
links to websites that directly refute Holocaust denial. There is
also a good collection of photographs with full source documentation.
- HOLOCAUST/SHOAH
is David M. Dickerson's extremely valuable easy to use collection of
fully annotated links organized by categories: "Organizations; Archives &
References; Personal Responses; Educational Projects & Tools; List &
Conference Archives; Survivors & Rescuers; The Third Reich." Dickerson's
Home Page contains other useful materials, espcially his web page on the
subject of anti-Semitism.
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Literature of the Holocaust; maintained by Al Filreis.
This is certainly an extraordinary source
of information. Organized alphabetically (with a helpful search engine)
it provides electronic access to complete articles, on virtually every
conceivable aspect of the Holocaust, from many sources including major
newspapers. [Also listed under the heading, "Essays,
Articles, Professional Papers"]
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Meyer's Holocaust Links. An extremely
important research asset. It provides an easy to use, no frills
interface with virtually exhaustive listings. Meyer’s links are
organized by topic and lead to most, possibly all, of the other major
network locations providing information on the holocaust.
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- Nizkor
Project. Nizkor's Search Engine is a
valuable tool for finding Holocaust web sites.
[See the detailed listing below under the heading, "Topical Information Centers"]
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Resources on Human Experimentation by Nazi Doctors An
excellent resource, there
are links to the Doctor's trials at Nuremberg, documents, photographs,
bibliographical materials and other resources.
DOCTORS
- Rosenberg, Jennifer, guide to
20th Century History
(Link to the Holocaust material) Ms.
Jennifer Rosenberg who works for About.com Inc as a "Guide" to 20th
Century History, maintains a wealth of online information about the
Holocaust as well as a very impressive array of alphabetically organized
internet links, Ms Rosenberg also has assembled a useful
collection of photographs, as well as reviews of plays,
movies, maps, and illustrated chronologies.
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Women and the
Holocaust, "Other Links" a web page
with important links that primarily, but not exclusively, provide
information about women and the Holocaust .
WOMEN
[see detailed listing below with information about the entire web site, "Women and the Holocaust; A Cyberspace of Their Own" It is under the heading "Websites Managed by Holocaust Survivors" ]
- WWW-Virtual Library, History: " There are catalogues written in English, but some knowledge of German is all but essential. Although its complex organization makes it very difficult to navigate, this website is very comprehensive and should not be overlooked
- U. S. 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…." See especially
the Museum's Center
for Advanced Holocaust Studies the offerings of which include
hundreds of articles, artifact images, documentary film clips, oral history
testimonies, historical photographs and maps,
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / DOCUMENTARY / GENERAL
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Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority. "Yad Vashem has the largest and the most comprehensive archive and information repositories on the Holocaust, housing more than 50 million pages of documents and hundreds of thousands of photographs and films. Over 75,000 titles and periodicals comprise the most significant library on Holocaust research in the world."
GENERAL / DOCUMENTARY / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
- National Archives and Records
Administration ( NARA) was established, " . . . to ensure ready
access to essential evidence . . .that documents the rights of American
citizens, the actions of federal officials, and the national experience
..." Our National Archives constitute an invaluable source of historical
information and are rich with materials relating to the Second World War,
Nazism and the Holocaust. The NARA website is extraordinarily helpful as it catalogues the archive's vast holdings and provides excellent search engines. See especially the pages relating to
The Interagency Working Group (IWG) which was established by the Clinton administration in accordance with the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act (PL 105-246). The IWG was directed to expedite the declassification of all classified Nazi war criminal records and facilitate their release to the public. Unfortunately, bits of information remain unjustifiably classified and government censorship has somewhat marred released documents. Among the most useful of the IWG's Holocaust related assets is a small collection of
Research Papers by eminent scholars.
CRIMES /
PERPETRATORS / DOCUMENTARY / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
- The Leo Baeck Institute "...is
a research, study and lecture center whose library and archives offer the
most comprehensive documentation for the study of German Jewish history.
Founded in 1955, it is named after the leading liberal Jewish religious
thinker of his time, the rabbi who was the spiritual leader of German Jewry
during the Nazi period."
DOCUMENTARY / JEWISH / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
- Mazal
Library, A privately funded
resource for historians, the Mazal Library collection "...includes over
20,000 books, hundreds of reels of microfilms, thousands of photographs,
dozens of video-films and tens of thousands of documents principally
related to the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, bigotry and genocide."
Its online offerings include a substantial amount of verbatim material from the Nazi War Crime Trials -- from both the Nuremberg Military Tribunal and the International Military Tribunal. An article by Harry W. Mazal, "The Dachau Gas Chambers," chronicles the history of Dachau, the first Nazi German concentration camp. There is also a "Photographic Essay" relating to the Holocaust in Hungary (many photographs taken by the Nazis and captured by the Soviets) as well as a excellent set of aerial photographs of Auschwitz taken in 1944-1945.
GENERAL / CRIMES / WITNESSES / CAMPS / DACHAU / HUNGARY / NUREMBERG TRIALS
- The
Holocaust History Project describes itself as, "...a free archive
of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust,
including direct refutation of Holocaust-denial." A worth while site to
visit for browsing as well as serious research purposes. Its excellent
search engine provides easy access to its very impressive collection of
Holocaust materials.
GENERAL / DENIAL / DOCUMENTARY / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
To top of page - The Nizkor Project
is one of the most valuable online sources of
information dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust, Nizkor,
in Hebrew, means we will remember. This website houses a very large
collection of anti-denial materials. In addition to its strong emphasis on
hate groups and revisionist literature the Nizkor home page provides easy
access to other useful material: books, documents, photographs, research
guides, bibliographies, organizations, people, places and more. [E.g.,
See below: the Trial of Adolf Eichman]
Nizkor aso provides a
search engine capable of searching some 70 holocaust related
sites. (Return to "Valuable Collections of Links....")
GENERAL / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / DENIAL / WITNESSES / PERPETRATORS / NATIONAL SOCIALISM / DOCUMENTARY
- CYBRARY OF THE
HOLOCAUST -- remember.org. The Cybrary is a website that anyone
interested in learning more about the Holocaust must visit. It provides a
great abundance of historical sources.Under
the caption "Witnesses"
there are collections of materials by and about, "Bystanders",
"Perpetrators", "Liberators", "Resistance", "Rescuers" and "Survivors." And
the "Witness" selections now include,
FIVE MILLION
FORGOTTEN, the web site of Holocaust Forgotten Memorial:
"Eleven million precious human lives were lost during the Holocaust.
Five million of these were non-Jewish. Three million were Polish Christians
and Catholics. It would be very sad to forget even one precious life
extinguished so ruthlessly. It would be a tragedy to forget five million."
One can also find substantial collections of annotated photographs and paintings as well as interactive maps. Among the more outstanding of Cybrary's collections are the drawings and paintings by the Polish Auschwitz survivor Jan Komski. "His personal history is full of remarkable events, including being part of the very first prisoner transport to arrive in Auschwitz, and being part of one of the most famous escapes from the camp." Also meriting special attention is the superb collection of full color photographs of Auschwitz (1979-1981) and Birkenau and Mauthausen (1996) taken by Alan Jacobs, the Editor of IDEA - A journal of social issues. And Cybrary sponsors IMAGINE, which is a special site for students who are invited to make suggestions, submit essays, paintings, poetry, or special projects. IMAGINE provides many very useful examples of what students can contribute when motivated. The Doctors of the Holocaust and The Forgotten Holocaust are two of a series of essays submitted by a class studying the Holocaust. The later is about the Japanese massacre of Chinese people in Nanjing,1937-38.
GENERAL / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / WITNESSES / CAMPS / AUSCHWITZ BIRKENAU / MAUTHAUSEN / SCIENCE / DOCTORS / NANJING / DOCUMENTARY
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JewishGen Yizkor Book
Project This site now provides
hundreds of partial and complete English translations of
memorial books (Yizkor books) of destroyed Jewish communities in Eastern
and Central Europe. In addition to the memorial books there are other
useful translations of primary source materials. This web site is
constantly growing with the addition of new translations and maintains a
comprehensive database of its holdings.
MEMORIAL / JEWISH COMMUNITIES / CAMPS / WITNESSES / RESISTANCE / RESETTLEMENT / SHTETL
- ISAR Institute for the Study of
Academic Racism +
Click here for detailed information about ISAR
as listed below under the heading "Topical Information Centers."
RACISM / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / BIOLOGICAL DETERMINISM / EUGENICS
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Archival-Manuscript Collections; Holocaust. Manuscripts available at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives. Although not available on line these archives provide useful information with an emphasis on the rescue and resettlement of Holocaust survivors.
RESCUE / RESETTLEMENT / WITNESSES / SURVIVORS
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- Survivors of the Shoah
Visual History Foundation, which
Steven Spielberg founded in 1994 after filming Shindler's List, has the
urgent mission, "to chronicle, before it is too late, the firsthand
accounts of Holocaust survivors and eyewitnesses, liberators and rescuers.
The Archive is comprised of 200,000-plus videotapes filled with more than
100,000 hours of testimony. To watch the collection straight through in its
entirety would now take about 13 years and six months."
WITNESSES / SURVIVORS / LIBERATORS / RESCUE
- War
Letters in the Second World War. This site provides collections of letters as a historical resource.
It is supported by the Museum für Kommunikation Berlin and the
Technical University Berlin, Institute of Media Consulting. Among the
interesting
letters selected for viewing on the internet is one from father to son
congratulating the latter for passing the medical examination for military
service. The father is an employee at the I.G. Farben slave labor works at
Auschwitz/Monowitz and describes the facility to his son.
WITNESSES / DOCUMENTARY / PERPETRATORS / CAMPS / AUSCHWITZ MONOWITZ / I.G. FARBEN / SLAVE LABOR / GENERAL
PRIMARY REPOSITORIES OF HOLOCAUST MATERIAL
H-NET HUMANITIES &
SOCIAL SCIENCES ONLINE Top
of Page
[SEARCH
H-NET'S ARCHIVE'S]
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H-Holocaust. H-Holocaust, in addition
to delivering a wealth of material on the Holocaust itself, addresses
related topics: anti-Semitism; Jewish history in the 1930s & 1940s; WW2,
Germany; International diplomacy. Its web page includes links to other
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H-Antisemitism. "H-Antisemitism proposes to facilitate the exchange of scholarly information on the subject of anti-Semitism, conceived as broadly as possible. Without chronological or disciplinary limitations, H-Antisemitism seeks to enable scholars to communicate research and teaching interests, discuss methodology, comment upon current historiography, and share information about new data, sources of funding, and publishing. It will explore with its subscribers new ways of making electronic communications a useful tool for serious students of anti-Semitism." This web page provides specific information about the workings of H-Antisemitism and how to subscribe to it by e-mail.
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- [A Web Site to Help Find Art
Stolen by Nazis] The Nazi-Era Provenance Internet
Portal Project Produced and managed by the American
Association of Museums, Washington, DC 2005. (AP) "People
searching for art that was stolen by the Nazis have a new tool: a Web site
that allows U.S. museum collections to be checked for long-lost pieces. The
Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal...is a searchable registry for people
looking for items that disappeared in Europe between 1932 and 1946...."
The search facility at this web site is excellent and one can
quickly find detailed information, including illustrations, about specific
works of art. ARTISTS /
MUSEUMS / CRIMES /
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
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REPARATIONS
- NAZI CRIMES ON
TRIAL German Trials Concerning Nazi Capital Crimes Since 1945
This web site provides a systematic survey of all German trials before West
and East German courts since1945 that involved Nazi homicidal crimes. It
also includes
The"Dachau Trials" by U.S. Army Courts in Europe 1945 -1948. CRIMES / PERPETRATORS
/ WITNESSES / NUREMBERG TRIALS / DACHAU
TRIALS
- The
Nizkor Project; A primary repository of Holocaust information, the
Nizkor project is dedicated to the millions of
Holocaust victims who suffered and died at the hands of Adolf Hitler and
his Nazi regime." Nizkor, in Hebrew, means we will remember.
This website houses a very large collection of anti-denial materials.
The question is asked -- and answered: "Given the evidence ...why do people deny the Holocaust? The cynical truth comes to us by way of an obscure extremist group, [The National Socialist White People's Party] which boasts: "The real purpose of holocaust revisionism is to make National Socialism an acceptable political alternative again."
In addition to an emphasis on hate groups and revisionist literature the Nizkor home page provides numerous links to other useful material: books, documents, photographs, research guides, bibliographies, organizations, people, places and more. [For example, See below: the Trial of Adolf Eichman]
Nizkor also provides a search engine capable of searching some 70 holocaust related sites.
[Return to "Collections" of Links category]
DENIAL / GENERAL / NATIONAL SOCIALISM / DOCUMENTARY / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / WITNESSES / PERPETRATORS
(Germany) Research and Study Center (RSC) for Holocaust Education. Information available in both German & English. The RSC is dedicated to furthering German knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust. The web site provides lots of material about the present state of Holocaust education in Germany.
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / To Top of Page
- (Germany) Learning From
History; The Nazi Era and the Holocaust in German Education. A
joint project of the Goethe Institute and other German organizations,
"...this website is the result of extensive scholarly research about actual
projects used in teaching about "National Socialism and the Holocaust" in
historical and citizenship education in and outside schools and in
educational work with young people."
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / GENERAL / CAMPS / GHETTOS / DACHAU
- The Foundation; TOPOGRAPHY OF
TERROR; New Exhibition and Documentation Centre in Berlin.
This is an excellent source of information for serious research as well as
for the classroom. The Foundation's stated mission, "...is to provide
historical information about National Socialism and its crimes as well as
to stimulate active confrontation with this history and its impact since
1945. Moreover, the Foundation serves as an advisor to the State of Berlin
in all matters relating to these issues.
The Topography of Terror Foundation, which grew out of a temporary exhibition project, has had a long and eventful history. Its establishment was the result of an extended and controversial exchange of ideas, in which the unwavering support of social groups and individuals played an important role and put an end to the many years of repression and forgetting."
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / GENERAL / CRIMES / NATIONAL SOCIALISM
- Holocaust Teacher
Resource Center is one of the services sponsored by the
Holocaust Educational Foundation.
This site provides access to a first rate collection of
essays; book reviews; lesson plans; curricula and annotated
bibliographies.
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / GENERAL / MEMORIAL / VICTIMS / WITNESSES / RACISM / SCIENCE
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The History of the Gay Male and
Lesbian Experience during World War II This is a website
having a substantial amount of literary and graphic material valuable both
as an introduction to the history of Nazi atrocities during World War II,
and as a source of information for those already familiar with the subject.
The site provides easy linkage to the valuable collections and exhibits
available at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and quite
appropriately places emphasis on the use of primary source materials. I
would
recommend it for classroom use.
HOMOSEXUALS /
VICTIMS / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
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The
International Association of Lesbian and Gay Children of Holocaust
Survivors --
Rick Landman Webmaster."The
Association, which now has over 150 members in eleven countries, encourages
the research of what actually happened to the generation of homosexuals who
were persecuted or perished during the Third Reich...."
The evidence provided here makes it clear that within Nazi concentration
camps the killing of homosexuals was
comparable to the killing of Jews. This site provides an abundance of readily
accessible information including relevant literature on the subject: books; book reviews;
articles; plays and movies.
HOMOSEXUALS / VICTIMS / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / SURVIVORS
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- Deutsches Historisches
Museum, Berlin (German
Historical Museum, Berlin) Housed in the Zeughaus,
the delightfully crafted old Baroque arsenal/museum on the Unter den
Linden, the Deutsches Historisches Museum, has developed a series of
exhibits that display some of the major developmental periods
of German history. The Museum’s web site contributes educationally
useful material on the Nazi era, most items have been
translated into English and other languages. This site provides the user with excellent search
engines both local and global. The site has a creditable collection of
links which includes a very unusual and extensive linked listing of the
world’s museums: Linkseite des
Deutschen Historischen Museums zu Museen im Internet.
Return to items listed under the section heading, "Valuable Collections of Links."
MEMORIAL / MUSEUMS / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / NATIONAL SOCIALISM / GENERAL
- The
Jewish Museum of
Deportation and the Resistance
,"The Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance (JMDR) is
situated in the building which was previously known as the Kazerne Dossin
in Mechelen, Belgium. It was here that, in 1942, the Nazis established
SS-Sammellager Mecheln
(SS-Collection Camp Mechelen).
This place was the departure point for a deportation without return. In the years between 1942 and 1944, 24.916 Jews and 351 Gypsies were transported to the camps in the east. Two thirds were gassed upon arrival. At the time of the liberation only 1.221 people had survived.
The Kazerne Dossin was therefore, literally, ‘the waiting room for death’. The underlying theme of the Museum is to cover this dark period in our history." The links within the quotation are working and helpful.
MEMORIAL / MUSEUMS / BELGIUM / RESISTANCE / DEPORTATION / CAMPS / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
- NAZI PROPAGANDA:
1933 - 1945 (AXT) The Third Reich was constructed on a foundation of
racial propaganda and this website is an outstanding source of information
about it. The site presents an impressive collection of fully illustrated
English translations of Nazi propaganda including material from SS
publications and such items as Julius Streicher's viciously anti-Semitic
writings and cartoons. This is a "must visit" website, especially for
educators; there is a lot of material here that is suitable for student
assignments.
PROPAGANDA / NATIONAL SOCIALISM / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
- Antisemitism and Xenophobia Today
A worldwide and updated country-by-country report on
anti-Semitism, Racism, and Xenophobia. "Each entry provides key data about the overall political and economic situation in the country, information about racism and xenophobia and then a series of sections on various aspects of anti-Semitism." This site is sponsored by Institute for Jewish Policy Research 1999.
RACISM / ANTI-SEMITISM / XENOPHOBIA
- RESISTANCE; The Soundtrack For
White Revolution. The white supremacists in America are relatively
few in number yet clearly dangerous. This "state of the art" web site
serves as a neo-Nazi merchandising and propaganda center advertising such
items as a "Resistance Magazine" and a "Resistance Radio,"as well as a new
video game called "Ethnic Cleansing." The site also peddles racist
recordings and books including Hitler’s Mein Kampf on CD, which they once described as:
"…a beacon and a guide to every healthy soul in
this dark age, to everyone who seeks understanding and light. It deals not
only with the goals and policies necessary for a healthy racial state, but
with the tactics of power required to establish such a state."
RACISM / ANTI-SEMITISM / NEO-NAZI / HATE / DENIAL
- The Stephen Roth
Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and
Racism.
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY, "...now monitors manifestations of anti-Semitism and racism around the world and operates a computerized database of contemporary anti-Semitism and hate groups. The database facilitates publication of an Annual Report on anti-Semitism and hate group activities worldwide, as well as research works on specific topics, which are also published by the Institute." RACISM / ANTI-SEMITISM / DENIAL / HATE / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / FASCISM
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ISAR Institute for the Study of Academic Racism "ISAR monitors changing intellectual trends in academic racism, biological determinism, and eugenics.[emphasis added] ISAR's investigative work has resulted in feature articles in such prominent newspapers and magazines as the New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Science Magazine. ISAR staff have worked with Congress and the Justice Department as well as national civil rights organizations. The institute promotes research in academic racism by posting extensive bibliographies and maintaining an on-line archive of primary and secondary sources." Emphasis added. RETURN===>> back to the ISAR listing under PRIMARY REPOSITORIES OF HOLOCAUST MATERIAL
RACISM / BIOLOGICAL DETERMINISM / EUGENICS / SCIENCE / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
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Poisoning the
Web: Hatred Online; Internet Bigotry, Extremism and Violence. An ADL Report on Internet
Bigotry, Extremism and Violence (Anti-Defamation League, 1999).
This report deals extensively with the ever increasing numbers of groups
and individuals using the internet as an instrument of online hate. Its
coverage is wide ranging: Neo-Nazis; Holocaust Denial; Female White
Supremacists; Neo-Nazi Skinheads and Racist Rock; Homophobia; the Ku Klux
Klan; Anti-Abortion Extremism and Bomb-Making Manuals are just a few of the
subjects considered. Many of the web sites evaluated in the report are
specifically designed to attract teens and children. "Bigotry-laced
hard rock and the Internet have proved a natural match in being used by
white supremacists trying to capture the minds of youngsters."
RACISM / HATE / NEO-NAZI / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
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Jewish-Christian Relations.
This is a fine collection of documentary material and
commentary which includes items dealing with Papal and other Roman Catholic
pronunciations on the subject of the Holocaust as well as substantial
information relating to anti-Semitism.
RELIGION / JEWISH / CHRISTIAN / SLAVE LABOR / DOCUMENTARY
- Holocaust; Victim Assets
Litigation (Swiss Banks) "This is the
official information website for the Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation
against Swiss Banks and other Swiss Entities."
See also:
Dormant Accounts Website of the
Swiss Bankers Association.
The following are all related:
~~Vatican Bank Claims; "Restition & justice for atrocity and concentration camp survivors of Serb, Jewish, and Ukrainian background and their relatives. "
~~Austrian Fund for Reconciliation, Peace, and Cooperation "Voluntary Payments by the Republic of Austria to Former Slave and Forced Laborers of the Nazi Regime on the Territory of Present-Day Austria."
~~German Forced Labour Compensation Programme "On 12 August 2000, a German law, German Foundation Act (GFA), came into force, creating a German Foundation entitled 'Remembrance, Responsibility and Future', to provide financial compensation to former slave and forced labourers and certain other victims of National Socialist (Nazi) injustice. The funds for this German Foundation, a total amount of EUR 5.1 billion (DEM 10 billion), were made available in equal parts by the German Government and German companies."
REPARATIONS / UNCLAIMED ASSETS / SLAVE LABOR / VICTIMS / SWITZERLAND / VATICAN
- [History of Eugenics]
Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement
Eugenics was a19th Century pseudo-science devised by Charles Darwin's
cousin, Francis Galton, which was widely popularized in the United States
and Europe during the first half of the 20th century. The eugenic objective
was to generate a race of superior human beings by a process of selective
breeding. People with "good genes" were to be encouraged to reproduce while
the carriers of "bad genes" were to be weeded out of the population by
sterilization and euthanasia. The American eugenics movement provided a
model for Nazi Germany as the latter established the systematic programs of
sterilization and euthanasia culminating in the Holocaust.
SCIENCE / RACISM /
EUGENICS / DOCUMENTARY
- [Contemporary Eugenics]
FUTURE GENERATIONS. This is a thinly disguised white
supremacist web site. It subtly introduces itself as being,
"...about humanitarian eugenics. Humanitarian eugenics strives to
leave a genuine legacy of love to future generations: good health, high
intelligence, and noble character [Italics added]." The
description concludes with the words: "If the truth about genetics
and behavior, about eugenics, or about race, is considered 'taboo',
and falsehoods are the only socially acceptable opinions, then this is
truly a sad state of affairs...." This site amply demonstrates
that however subtle its presentation, Eugenics remains a pseudo-science for
racists. See esp.the article entitled
Eugenics and the
Third Reich, by Steven B. Saetzn in "Future Generations Part II."
SCIENCE / RACISM / EUGENICS / NATIONAL SOCIALISM
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"Race and the Clinic: Good Science?
Human genome findings practically erase race as
a biological factor", By Ricki Lewis. This is a
useful article to read when
using the two preceding links to Eugenics websites. This article is from
the online periodical,
The Scientist
<<
link to its Home Page]
SCIENCE / RACISM / EUGENICS
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Anne Frank Online. A thoroughgoing accounting of the life of Anne Frank with many interesting and informative links. "Over one million children under the age of sixteen died in the Holocaust. Anne Frank was one of them." This is a worthwhile site to visit.
VICTIMS / WITNESSES / ANNE FRANK
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Non-Jewish Holocaust Victims - the 5,000,000 Others The purpose of this web site is to memorialize the non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust. There is a justified emphasis on Polish victims but the others who suffered are also considered in some detail on the page, "Five Million Forgotten?" This web site also includes a growing collection of survivor's stories.
VICTIMS / RACISM / POLAND / WITNESSES
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THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE KOVNO GHETTO
Archives, diaries, drawings, and photographs to document German crimes against their community.
Most of these works were buried beneath the ghetto in wooden crates, metal containers, and ceramic jugs. Dug up after the war, the remnants of this extra-ordinary documentation reveal the history of the Kovno Ghetto." And the "remnants of this extraordinary documentation," constitute the heart of this website. Effectively combining graphics and multimedia it can be best described in superlatives. It provides sound recordings as well as videos of Kovno ghetto survivors -- an outstanding collection of photographs, drawings and paintings -- many interactive maps -- an historical timeline which moves to the accompaniment of a ghetto song, and other very useful resources. WITNESSES / VICTIMS / GHETTOS / KOVNO
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- NAZI POLICY
TOWARD ROMA, SINTI AND JEWS -- from
the H-Net: H-Holocaust
[This link will create a separate page] VICTIMS / GYPSIES / RACISM / RELIGION / DENIAL / DOCUMENTARY
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CNN WEBSITE:
"Gypsies Refuse to Be Forgotten"
"Roma were the only other population besides the Jews who were targeted for extermination on racial grounds in the Final Solution." The Patrim Web Journal, a fundamental source of information, was originally launched as a memorial to the founder's grandfather who was a Gypsy Holocaust survivor and Resistance fighter. The site provides some eighteen critical essays about the Roma as Holocaust victims as well as a small but useful collection of links. VICTIMS / GYPSIES / RACISM / RELIGION / DENIAL / DOCUMENTARY
"HIDDEN VICTIMS: The Unknown Assault On Europe's Gypsies "
This is a very important article, however controversial, about Nazi racism and Gypsies as forgotten Holocaust victims. VICTIMS / GYPSIES / RACISM / DENIAL / DOCUMENTARY / RELIGION
Blended with the photographs are a group of links, bibliographic and research aids, as well as an excellent collection of thought provoking essays which include, "Who's History? Revisionism and the Romani Holocaust," which deals with "exclusionist" denial. VICTIMS / GYPSIES / RACISM / RELIGION / DENIAL / DOCUMENTARY
Who's History? Revisionism and the Romani Holocaust
"Holocaust Efforts to
historically legitimate the Romani Holocaust have often become entangled in
a grotesque 'numbers game', as scholars have found themselves frequently
compelled to contest the assertions of revisionists committed to
downplaying the significance and extent of the Porrajmos. Below is an
example of one such encounter. Translated from the Hungarian, the first
article is a revisionist broadside by Dr. László Karsai, the second, a
rebuttal written by Dr. János Bársony and Ágnes Daróczi. Both articles
originally appeared in Népszabadság."
DENIAL / AUSCHWITZ /
HUNGAR
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of page
This is a superb web site that is ideal for both personal study and classroom use. It features more than 25 artists with abundant and very professionally reproduced examples of their work accompanied by well-written and researched biographical essays. Additionally, the web site provides a well-crafted teacher’s guide and useful student activity assignments for three age levels: 10-12, 13-15, and 16 plus. Users are allowed to select and manage their own collection of artworks.
ARTISTS / WITNESSES / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / DOCUMENTARY / CAMPS / CRIMES / MEMORIAL /
JAN KOMSKI
"Polish artist Jan Komski is a
survivor of Auschwitz. His personal history is full of remarkable events,
including being part of the very first prisoner transport to arrive in
Auschwitz, and being part of one of the most famous escapes from the camp."
This web site is a selection from remember.org, the Cybrary of the
Holocaust.
ARTISTS / SURVIVORS
/ EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / AUSCHWITZ
A TRIBUTE TO
HOLOCAUST COMPOSERS §
Viktor Ullmann
Foundation UK "The Viktor Ullmann Foundation UK, was founded by the British concert pianist
Jacqueline Cole
in 2002. The purpose of the Foundation is to honour, celebrate and remember the life, courage and genius of the composer and pupil of Arnold Schoenberg, and his fellow artists and musicians in the Theresienstadt (Terezín) ghetto. This will be achieved through concerts, festivals, cabaret, lectures, Holocaust education and film."
Also
see references to the musical compositions of
Gideon
Klein:
[1]
About the preservation of Klein's work
[2]
The Gideon Klein Award for Northeastern University Students
:--
ARTISTS / MUSIC
/ VICTIMS / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / AUSCHWITZ
/
THERESIENSTADT / CAMPS
Musik aus
Österreich -
Vertrieben - Es
ist Zeit, die Spuren Zu sichern
the Orpheus
Trust
[Austrian Music, it is time to secure banished
traces. A Website in both
English and German ] The
activities of the Orpheus Trust "....focus on three
main areas: Research and Documentation of all data pertaining
to the life and work of musicians persecuted, exiled from Austria or
murdered by the Nazis. These include composers, performing artists,
musicologists and critics. Performances of persecuted music and
promotion of exiled musicians. Provision and exchange of information
for musicians, concert organizers, researchers, educators and the media."
The website makes reference to the Orpheus Trust's
extensive Database of biographical materials about the persecuted
musicians which includes their work and repertoire (there are many
thousands of entries, a few of which are on line -- click on photograph).
There is is also reference to an Archive of over 200 oral history
interviews, "...with exiled musicians, shoa-survivors
or their relatives, the musical estates of Fritz Spielmann, Hermann and
Alfred Lunger, Franz Steiner, Oskar Karlweis and Kurt List."
Archival materials available on line include comprehensive listings
of printed music as well as a reference library.
ARTISTS / MUSIC / VICTIMS
/ EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / AUSTRIA
TEREZIN (in
German Theresianstadt) A
comprehensive, commemorative
website about the Nazi concentration camp, Terezin. Gideon Klein and a
number of other composers were prisoners there and the website focuses in
on their music, while at the same time providing a detailed history of the
camp. Overall, one finds here a valuable mine of information about Terezin
and the contributions of its prisoners in graphic art, music and in the
written word. This website provides an abundance of art reproductions and
photographs as well as useful biographical studies of each of Terezin's
composers. It also includes a substantial bibliography.
Melissa Misica, a student at Northeastern University, won the
2001-2002 Gideon Klein Award. This remarkable website was her project.
*Note references to The Klein Award
at the end of the entry, "A Tribute to Holocaust Composers" (the first of
the two preceding entries)
ARTISTS / MUSIC
/ VICTIMS / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / AUSCHWITZ
/
THERESIENSTADT / CAMPS
AN AUSCHWITZ
ALPHABET.
The designer of this web site,
Jonathan Blumen, uses each letter of the
alphabet to convey information about Auschwitz and the Holocaust.
CAMPS / AUSCHWITZ /
POLAND
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU
2005 -- "This site is a photographic record of
Auschwitz coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the camp's liberation."
Bill Hunt the photographer and designer of this website writes: "My
interest in the Holocaust began while working on the PR for Schindler's
List, coupled with conversations with both survivors and Caroline Goodall
who, through her role as Oskar's wife in the film, had forged a friendship
with Emilie Schindler."
The photographs are superb and are accompanied by clear
explanations and a choice selection of quotations. Occasionally the photos
are juxtaposed with pictures taken by the SS. In one section there are
photographs of Krakow some of which relate to the filming of Schindler’s
list. This is certainly a must-visit website for anyone interested in the
Holocaust. It is suitable for use in the classroom.
CAMPS /
AUSCHWITZ / BIRKENAU / SLAVE LABOR /
POLAND / DOCUMENTARY /
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Aktion Reinhardt Camps, provides an
excellent introduction to a study of Hitler's war of extermination in
Poland and is ideal for classroom use. The emphasis is placed on the first
death camps, <<Belzec>>,
<<Sobibor>>
and <<Treblinka>>
designed to initialize Hitler's "Final Solution of the Jewish Problem" [Endlösung
der Judenfrage]. Aktion Reinhardt,
known also as Einsatz Reinhardt, derived its name from SS-Obergruppenführer
Reinhardt Heydrich who, until his assasination on May 27, 1942, was the
coordinator of this genocidal mission against the Jews.
This website is broad in scope. In addition to its extensive,
illustrated information about Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka there are other
special topics such as "Aktion T4" which is about Hitler's
euthanasia program and the major significance of its administrative and
technical contributions to the death camps. See also: <<Occupation
of Poland>>
<<Lublin
Headquarters>>
<<San
Sabba>>
an Italian concentration camp. The website includes many useful maps,
illustrations and diagrams. [See also the next Link below:
Sobibr - The Forgotten Revolt another valuable website created by
a survivor of the Sobibor prisoner's revolt.]
CAMPS
/
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES /
BELZEC / SOBIBOR /
TREBLINKA /
EUTHANASIA /
POLAND / LUBLIN /
Sobibor
- The Forgotten Revolt Selected material by Thomas Toivi Blatt.
"The facts presented on this website are the Historical research and
first-hand account of Holocaust survivor Thomas 'Toivi' Blatt, who escaped
from the Nazi death camp Sobibor during the prisoner-led Revolt on October
14, 1943. The Sobibor revolt was the most successful revolt and escape from
any Nazi camp during World War II."
This website is a work of commendable scholarship and
constitutes an excellent teaching resource. Mr. Blatt's personal commentary
as a survivor of the prisoner's revolt is in itself a worthy contribution
to Holocaust literature. He is author of two books about Sobibor: From
the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival and
Sobibor: The Forgotten Revolt - A Survivor's Report. [I
would suggest using this website in conjunction with the Sobibor page of
the preceeding website: Aktion Reinhardt Camps.]
CAMPS /
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
/ SOBIBOR / POLAND
Documents Regarding Auschwitz AICE -- The Jewish Student Online
Research Center (JSOURCE). This is a web page with a small
collection of interesting documents quoted from well known secondary
sources. [See also the Cybrary website: <http://www.remember.org/camps/>
for a series of excellent photographs as well as detailed
information about the Auschwitz//Birkenau concentration and death-camp
complex, by Alan Jacobs, the Editor of
IDEA: A journal of social issues.
]
CAMPS / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / AUSCHWITZ /
BIRKENAU / POLAND
The
Liberation of Buchenwald by Harry Herder. Having been among the
soldiers that liberated Buchenwald, Harry Herder continued to be haunted by
the memory and thus came to write an account of his experience. He
concludes with the words: "I was nineteen, Bill and Tim were eighteen --
chronologically anyway. We had aged years in a few short hours." [This
account by Herder is one of those posted on the Cybrary website under the
heading, "Witnesses."
Here one can find numerous witness accounts divided by category:
Bystanders; Perpetrators; Liberators, Resistance, Rescuers, Survivors and
Victims.]
CAMPS / LIBERATORS / BUCHENWALD /
RESCUE
KZ GUSEN [MAUTHAUSEN-GUSEN]
MEMORIAL COMMITTEE Definitive information about
Mauthausen as a four camp complex: KZ Mauthausen-Wienergraben,
central camp, infamous for deadly slave labor at the stone quaries;
KZ Gusen I,
at Langenstein, built much closer to the quarries and becoming a
center for quarrying and crushing stone;
KZ
Gusen II, at St. Georgen/Gusen, where the
Bergkristall underground aircraft factories were built for the
construction of Messerschmitt GmbH warplanes; all labor being
provided by prisoners and KZ
Gusen III, at Lungitz, which came into use an essential
sub camp of Gusen II, as its facilities stored aircraft parts. This
website's offerings include: documents, paintings and drawings, sculpture,
music, poetry, aerial photographs, information on medical experiments and
more. [ See also detailed information about Mauthausen with some
excellent (1996) photographs by Alan Jacobs at
the Cybrary website: <http://www.remember.org/camps/>
]
CAMPS / MEMORIAL / MAUTHAUSEN / AUSTRIA
Voices from Ravensbrück; Poems from the Women's
Concentration Camp; an art project by Pat Binder
Dedicated to the prison camp’s
inmates, "Voices from Ravensbrück" is a very imaginatively conceived
memorial website that features poetry composed by the inmates.
The camp at Ravensbrück, located some 70 km from Berlin, was the largest of
the German prison camps for women and more than 65,000 of the estimated
130,000 women imprisoned there were either starved to death or murdered.
This web site provides information about conditions at Ravensbrück and
presents poetry written by its inmates in a hauntingly imaginative setting
of drawings that were actually made in the camp. "Voices from Ravensbrück"
pays tribute to the strength of the human spirit
CAMPS / RAVENSBRÜCK / WOMEN
/ ARTISTS / POETRY / WITNESSES /
VICTIMS / MEMORIAL / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
[there are excellent full color photographs of this gas chamber-crematorium complex at Auschwitz-Birkenau, which were taken in 1996 by Alan Jacobs at the Cybary website: <http://www.remember.org/camps/> ]
Terezin became the subject of a special makeover whereby the camp artificially appeared to be a truly model community: this ruse was designed to deceive an International Red Cross investigating delegation; the makeover also made it possible for the Nazis to produce a propaganda film displaying Terezin as a permanent home for happy resettled Jews. In reality, death was the host at Terezin: of the approximately 150,000 Jews sent there, less than 20,000 survived. About 88,000 of them were transported and killed and some 33,000 died there. It also became the largest of Europe's children's camps; and of the many thousands of children interned there only a few hundred survived. Among those murdered were the 1,264 children from the Bialystok Ghetto. See also: [TheBialystokChildren] and [BialystokGhettoUprising]
CAMPS / MEMORIAL / THERESIANSTADT / TEREZIN / AUSCHWITZ BIRKENAU / BIALYSTOK / GHETTOS / POLAND
CRIMES / PERPETRATORS / WITNESSES / GENOCIDE / NUREMBERG TRIALS / DOCUMENTARY / EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS / SCIENCE / DOCTORS
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann; State of
Israel Ministry of Justice; Record
of the Proceedings in the District Court of Jerusalem.
The Nizkor Project (courtesy of Israel State
Archives) has placed the extensive records of the Eichmann trial online.
Adolf Eichmann was the primary figure in the implementation of the Nazi's
"Final Solution of the Jewish Problem." This internet publication of
the minutely detailed trial proceedings includes witness testimony of both
victims and participants and adds substantially to the online collections
of Holocaust documents now readily available for educational purposes.
If you wish to return to the Nizkor Project listing,
note that it is listed in three places ==> EITHER
(1) return to the Nizkor Project as listed under
TOPICAL INFORMATION CENTERS
which is the most detailed listing OR (2) return
to the Nizkor Project as listed under PRIMARY
REPOSITORIES OF HOLOCAUST MATERIAL OR (3) return
to the Nizkor project as listed under VALUABLE
COLLECTIONS OF LINKS TO HOLOCAUST WEBSITES.
CRIMES / WITNESSES
/ EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS / PERPETRATORS
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Holocaust
Denial This excellent summary
account of the propaganda work and influence of the self-styled "Holocaust
Revisionists," is a reprint of Holocaust Denial, (NY: ADL, 1997).
It is posted online by The Jewish Student Online Research Center, JSOURCE,
an educational organization sponsored by AICE, the American-Israeli
Cooperative Enterprise. This article would make a particularly interesting
reading assignment for college level class discussion.
DENIAL / EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES
"The
Holocaust on Trial" -- a NOVA ONLINE presentation of the Irving vs.
Lipstadt Trial in London. This fully illustrated website features detailed
information about the television production by NOVA under the same title.
It is a thought provoking site with useful information about the Holocaust
particularly suitable for classroom use. One of its presentations ("Results
of Death Camp Experiments: Should They Be Used?") challenges the reader to
study a given body of evidence and draw a conclusion. Another useful
interactive essay ("Exposing Flawed Science") submits questions about the
trustworthiness of Science with particular reference to the work of the
Holocaust denier, Fred Leuchter Jr., who claimed that he had found chemical
evidence proving that the gas chambers at Auschwitz were never used for the
the purpose of exterminating human beings.
DENIAL / IRVING VS. LIPSTADT / CAMPS /
SCIENCE / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Documents Reporting
the Holocaust; never let it be said that the
U.S.A. public didn't know. This is a small yet useful website with
links to a number of articles about Nazi persecution and murder of Jews
that were published in 1933 by the Nashua Telegraph,
Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S.A.
DOCUMENTARY / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
/ GENOCIDE / VICTIMS / REFUGES
Drew
University Center for Holocaust/Genocide Never send to know for whom the
bell tolls: it tolls for thee... John Dunne, 1624. One of the highlights of this university website is the "Victor Wegard
& Charlotte Turner
Photo Galleries." Victor Wegard was assigned to a War Crimes Investigating
Team in 1945. The Turner collection
of photographs is from "'Painted with the blood of our Ancestors'": A
Shtetl Pilgrimage...," working in both black and white as well as color,
"Turner presents a personal photographic narrative of her family's journey
to the Belarus village of Postov to revisit the places and circumstances in
which her family was murdered." The Drew University Center provides a very useful selection of links, many of
which lead to unusual if not unique websites. (Return to "Valuable
Collections of Links....")
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / GENERAL / WITNESSE
The History Place; The
Past into the Future. In
addition to providing good material about Hitler and the Nazis, The
History Place is notable for its interactive chronologies, the
"Timeline
of World War II in Europe" and
the "Holocaust
Timeline." These "Timelines"
provide useful links to textual material, documents and hundreds of archive
photographs.
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES /
GENERAL
The
Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy This is a very compelling web site
developed for Think Quest by a team of three students. Its many features
include historical background information on the Holocaust and related
events; survivor stories in Real Audio; an interactive time line; a
multimedia Glossary; and a very active page for exchanging messages.
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / GENERAL / WITNESSES
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Issues: The Holocaust [as it relates to Current Events] Religious
Action Center of Reform Judaism. Information and informed opinion
concerning the relevance of the Nazi Holocaust to present issues such as
genocide, abortion, reparations, Swiss banks, legislation for the benefit
of Holocaust survivors, etc. EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES / RELIGION / JEWISH /
REPARATIONS
The Jewish
Studies Program, Northeastern University "...provides students with the opportunity
to explore the culture and religion of the Jewish people with a focus on
contemporary Jewish life and thought.
This interdisciplinary program within the Unversity's
College of Arts and Sciences offers courses in the areas of African
American Studies, history, literature, music, political science, religion,
and sociology. We also sponsor frequent public lectures, performances, and exhibitions related to
Jewish Studies.
The program has many special and unique features, including
a a cooperative
relationship between Northeastern Unviersity and Hebrew College, the Jewish
Studies Module, and the Jewish concentration in Human Services."
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / RELIGION / JEWISH
IMHS
The Holocaust:
A part of the Internet Modern History Sourcebook, this web site offers a
good selection of basic primary sources. Although by necessity selective,
there are reasonably comprehensive listings under the following headings:
The Holocaust; Anti-Semitism; The "Final Solution;" Ordinary Germans and
the Holocaust; The Handicapped; The Roma [Gypsies]; Serbs; Homosexuals;
"Revisionism"; and the broadly inclusive, Pre- and Post-Holocaust
Genocides.
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / VICTIMS / GENOCIDE /
GENERAL
Holocaust
Survivors’ Network; A Tribute to Survivors of the Nazi Holocaust.
This is certainly a superior website in all respects and an especially
useful place for students (at any level) to begin a study of the Holocaust.
The Introduction defines the subject of the site broadly to include Gypsies
and other victims such as those murdered because they were mentally or
physically handicapped. Subsequent topical divisions provide a very
impressive amount of information for reading and research. See especially
the extraordinary collection of photographs from
The Auschwitz
Album: The Story of a Transport. Oliver Lustig’s Text Presentation
of Historic Holocaust Photographs. Oliver Lustig is a Birkenau-Auschwitz
and Dachau Holocaust Survivor.
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES /
SURVIVORS / AUSCHWITZ / RACISM /
EUTHANASIA / GYPSIES
Verein
Schloss Hartheim A German language website containing a voluminous
amount of material about Hartheim Castle, one of the 6 "euthanasia" centers where those deemed physically or mentally "unfit," nonconformists and
"garbage" people were put to death. Find the,
Projekt Gedenkbuch Hartheim -- Hartheim; Book of Remembrance,
which is a Hartheim Castle project to record the victims of Nazi
"euthanasia" murdered there from 1940-1944. Mass killings at Hartheim started in May 1940. In the years
1940 and 1941 alone over 18,000 people were murdered.
**See also,
translated into English,
<"Vergasungsapparate"
--"Gassing Devices"> a Nazi
document posted on the Holocaust History Project
website. "This letter,
marked Secret, is...one of the important links in the chain leading
directly from the murder by gas of mentally and physically handicapped
German citizens to the murder by gas of Jews....It is especially valuable
because, unlike most communications regarding the Final Solution, it refers
to gassing using that word, rather than a euphemism."
EUTHANASIA / MEMORIAL / VICTIMS /
CRIMES / EUGENICS / PERPETRATORS
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and
Diplomacy An excellent collection with an emphasis on the
18th--20th Centuries, but also including valuable pre-18th Century
documents. The 20th Century full text documents include the
Nuremberg Trials,
as well as many other Treaties, Agreements, Pacts, etc.
GENERAL / DOCUMENTARY /
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / NUREMBERG TRIALS
German History
Sources -- edited by Dr. Richard Weikart, Dept. of History,
California State University, Stanislaus. Author of From Darwin to
Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2004). Although this web site is primarily designed
to provide collateral reading for a course on Modern German History, the
emphasis is on the 19th and 20th centuries and the collection includes many
basic source materials directly related to the Holocaust. A useful
collection for the study of Hitler's Germany.
GENERAL / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
The
Holocaust Chronicle Website. This website treats the visitor to an
online reproduction of a book which runs close to a thousand (large format)
pages. Every word and image from the print edition is reproduced here.
It is bountifully illustrated with over 2,000 photos. Following the
pattern of the book it presents material in a comprehensive yet very
concise time line and this electronic version further benefits from being both interactive and
searchable.
GENERAL / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
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The Anne Frank House.
Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam has been converted into a museum. This is
its web site.
MUSEUMS / MEMORIAL
/ ANNE FRANK / WITNESSES / VICTIMS /
BIOGRAPHICAL
House of the Wannsee
– Conference - Permanent Exhibit - Reader -
On January 20, 1942, at the Wannsee
villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, Reinhard Heydrich (Heinrich
Himmler’s chief lieutenant in the SS) chaired the conference of Nazi
leaders that planned the so called "final solution" (Enlösung) to
the "Jewish question" (Judenfrage) which led to the murder of some
6,000,000 Jews. In January 1992, on the 50th anniversary of this
meeting the house was formally established as an educational, center and
memorial site.This web site features an illustrated history of the Wannsee
vila as well as other related educational materials which trace the history
of the Nazis, provide information for teachers and suggest topics for
seminars.
PERPETRATORS / WANNSEE CONFERENCE / EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES / MEMORIAL
JEWS OF LUBACZOW This is a memorial website
affiliated with Jewish Gen and dedicated to the Jews of the town and ghetto
of Lubaczow in South Eastern Poland. It is developed and managed by Ms. Eva
Florsheim who translated
Lubaczow's
hitherto unpublished Yizkor [memorial] List for the Jewish Gen Yizkor [memorial]Book
Project. In addition to providing quick access to this translation, the
website offers lots of specific information about Lubaczow including
details of its history and religious life, a Business Directory and various
Telephone and address lists from the period 1929-1932, information about
Jewish emigration to America and a set of maps.
POLAND / WITNESSES /
LUBACZOW / JEDWABNE / RADZILOW / ZABLUDOW
/ VICTIMS / BELZEC / SHTETL /
YIZKOR MEMORIAL BOOKS / RESCUE / EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES
INFORMATION ABOUT THE JEDWABNE TRAGEDY A website where there are
direct links to commentary by Polish journalists,
scholars and other sources relating to the Jedwabne massacre.
[ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS ] Many
items are concerned with Neighbors and the controversy surrounding
its publication. The Jedwabne massacre took place on July 10, 1941. In this
rural Polish community 1600 Jews were murdered by their Polish neighbors.
Most of the Jews were burned alive. The publication in May, 2000, of
Sasiedzi: historia zagÓady
zydowskiego miasteczka by Jan T. Gross (later published in English as
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne,
Poland. Princeton, 2001 ) added greatly to an already developing
controversy over the claim that Poles, not Germans, were responsible for
the massacre. { **Note There
is an all to vivid description of the massacre in the
Jedwabne Yizkor book
(memorial book) now available in English translation at the JewishGen
website. See also material about the Polish community of Radzilow
below }
POLAND / WITNESSES
/ JEDWABNE / LUBACZOW / RADZILOW /
ZABLUDOW / VICTIMS / SHTETL / YIZKOR
MEMORIAL BOOKS / RESCUE / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
/
ANTI-SEMITISM
POLAND AND EASTERN EUROPE: FIVE
MILLION FORGOTTEN the web site of Holocaust Forgotten Memorial.
See also:
HITLER’S PLAN FOR EASTERN EUROPE.
ANTI-SEMITISM
/ POLAND / WITNESSES
/ VICTIMS / RESCUE / JEDWABNE /
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / RADZILOW / DENIAL
THE ZABLUDOW MEMORIAL
WEBSITE -- This website belongs to Mr. Tilford Bartman who
describes it as, "...a memorial to the 400 years of Jewish history and
culture in the Shtetl (town) of Zabludow Poland."
There is some very useful material here which
includes materal attesting to the singular beauty of the
town's 17th century wooden synagogue burned by the Germans on
June 26th, 1941.
Mr Bartman also provides useful links leading to other worthy yet
not widely known web sites about Jewish communities in Poland and their
social heritage, as well as an excellent series of maps..At this.
Zabludow web site there are materials relating to Bialystok, a larger city near Zabludow and now well known for its ghetto
uprising. The witness accounts dealing with the murder of the Bialystok
Children are especially informative See: [TheBialystokChildren]
and [BialystokGhettoUprising]
At the JewishGen website see: [Chosen
Pages From the Zabludow Yiskor Book] The Zabludow Yiskor
Book was published in Israel, 1987, translated by Ziva Rosenhand, and
funded and coordinated by Tilford Bartman.
[The illustration at the beginning of this Internet Links page is a Model of the Zabludow Synagogue by Moshe Verbin, Kibbutz Yaku]
POLAND / WITNESSES
/ ZABLUDOW / JEDWABNE / LUBACZOW /
RADZILOW / VICTIMS / SHTETL /
YIZKOR MEMORIAL BOOKS / RESCUE / EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES / BIALYSTOK GHETTO
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Still Images from Der ewige Jude
Der ewige Jude,
was the most notorious of the Nazi propaganda films reviling Jews; this web
site accurately summarizes the film with many still pictures and
substantial excerpts from the films narration. Return to
Select Listings From H-Holocaust: Professional Papers.
PROPAGANDA / FILMS
Chambon Foundation
This is an educational effort named
in honor of Le Chambon in France, an area where 5,000 Jews were
hidden from the Nazis by 5,000 Christians. The Foundation is, "committed to
exploring, especially on film, the necessary lessons of hope
intertwined with the Holocaust’s unavoidable lessons of despair."
The web site provides guides to books and documentary films.
Film projects include: Weapons of the Spirit, about Le Chambon;
And Crown Thy Good: Varian Fry in Marseille, which documents the
rescue work of Varian Fry, an American who saved some 2,000 lives,
including a number of prominent artists and intellectuals; and The
Optimists, memorializing Bulgaria as the only country in Nazi ruled
Europe that protected its large community of Jews. Pierre Sauvage is the
film producer as well as president and founder of the Chambon Foundation.
RESCUE / WITNESSES / VICTIMS
Project Paperclip: Nazi Scientists Who Performed Human Experimentation in
the U.S.
Links to a useful set of documents with a bibliography by Stephen Hale.
SCIENCE / DOCTORS /
PERPETRATORS / WITNESSES / CRIMES
Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
The Registry was established in 1981
to compile information about survivors who had come to North America after
World War II. Later, in 1993, the Registry was moved to the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. where it now consists of more
than 170,000 records including the names of survivors living outside of the
United States. In 2001 the registry was made universally accessible being
published in both CD-ROM and book formats and the website provides lists of
worldwide Universities and libraries, Jewish community groups and Holocaust
organizations where it is available.
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/ DOCUMENTARY
Holocaust
Survivors’ Network; A Tribute to Survivors of the Nazi Holocaust.
This is certainly a superior website in all respects and an especially
useful place for students (at any level) to begin a study of the Holocaust.
The Introduction defines the subject of the site broadly to include Gypsies
and other victims such as those murdered because they were mentally or
physically handicapped. Subsequent topical divisions provide a very
impressive amount of information for reading and research. See especially
the extraordinary collection of photographs from
The Auschwitz
Album: The Story of a Transport. Oliver Lustig’s Text Presentation
of Historic Holocaust Photographs. Oliver Lustig is a Birkenau-Auschwitz
and Dachau Holocaust Survivor.
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RESOURCES / AUSCHWITZ / RACISM /
EUTHANASIA / GYPSIES
"If
Not Now... an Internet
Journal for individuals and agencies working with survivors of the
Holocaust and their families." Volume I for Fall 2000 was the premiere
edition. The Journal is primarily concerned with care for aging survivors
and its first articles indicate that it will prove a valuable source of
information about their life's experience.
For more information
email <
webmaster@baycrest.org >.
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Holocaust Translations.
Here one can find documentary material that is very suitable for classroom
use. This is the personal web site of Kenneth Kronenberg [e-mail:
kkronenberg@us.inter.net
] a man who has had, to use his own
words, an "intensive involvement in German-Jewish dialogue."
He has compiled and translated valuable articles, letters, photos and
documents relating to the Nazi persecution of his grandparents, Ferdinand
and Ida Kronenberg, in the German town of Geseke, Westphalia. They were
deported to Theresienstadt on July 29, 1942, and were ultimately murdered
at Auschwitz. His translations include an article, The Last Jews in
Geseke, written by a German women who, when she was a 13 year old girl
in the early 1940's, brought food to his grandparents.
Kronenberg has also translated and annotated significant
documents relating to the deportation of Jews and several worthwhile
literary essays about his trip to Germany (A Few Thoughts on the Rails; My
Trip to Auschwitz; Taking the Night Train; A Letter from My Cousin).
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Mildred Fish-Harnack 1902 - 1942 was a native of Milwaukee, and an alumna of the University of Wisconsin (Madison) where she was a faculty member since the 1920's. She became a fervent anti-Nazi, and with her husband, who was German citizen, joined the German resistance. They both paid with their lives: her husband was strangled (hung from a meat hook) in December, 1942, at the Ploetzensee execution center -- Mildred was guillotined in February, 1943. Hitler had refused to grant clemency, and she became the only citizen of the United States to be executed at his personal command. WITNESSES / RESISTANCE / VICTIMS / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / WOMEN
[Many websites listed in the other categories also present useful Audio/Visual materials] Top of page One of the most important educational resources available online, The Visual History Foundation was started by Steven Spielberg in 1994, after filming Shindler's List, for the purpose of videotaping the testimonies of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust. Its stated educational mission is, "To overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry-and the suffering they cause-through the educational use of the Foundation’s visual history testimonies." During its first decade of existence the Foundation, "...videotaped more than 50,000 testimonies, given in 32 languages by people living in 56 countries."
Although the vast majority of the testimonies are from Jewish survivors, the collection also includes interviews with others such as survivors of Nazi eugenics policies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Gypsies, homosexuals, political prisoners, rescuers, liberators and even participants in war crimes trials.
Among its many ready to use educational resources the website features an online catalogue of Foundation holdings (not the videos themselves) and an Online Testimony Viewer providing state of the art video access to many short, thematically organized survivor testimonies. The website also provides special educational programs, rich in primary sources, for use by both teachers and students, at all educational levels including a unit for middle school teachers which highlights videos of childhood survivors. EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / SURVIVORS / WITNESSES / RESISTANCE / RESCUE
"The American Experience | America and the Holocaust WGBH
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This internet edition...of the database of the Cinematography of the Holocaust project contains [very detailed] information on over 1,000 films. "The focus is on films in English (from the USA, Israel, etc.). In addition, the database presents a selection of relevant films from Germany before 1945, from the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic, France, Italy, etc."
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Voice Vision
Holocaust Survivor Oral Histories Archive Mardigian Library
of the University of Michigan--Dearborn. This is an archive now containing
over 150 interviews with Holocaust survivors: 60 hours of video and nearly
330 hours of audio tapes. The latter will be made available online as
they are transcribed. The collection is fully catalogued and the video
interviews made available for interlibrary loan.
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Voices of the Holocaust: A documentary project by Illinois Institute of Technology
"This remarkable resource is provided by the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), where, in 1998, library staff uncovered a sixteen-volume set of typescripts of 70 interviews of Holocaust survivors conducted in 1946. In that year, Dr. David Pablo Boder (a professor at IIT) travelled to Europe and recorded 109 interviews (200 hours) on a wire recorder, 70 of which he later transcribed in English. While numerous excellent projects to record the experiences of survivors have been undertaken, this one is unique in that the interviews took place only one year after liberation, while the victims were still in displaced persons camps throughout Europe. The full text of the 70 interviews, along with a profile, summary, and in a few cases, the audio recording (in German, Yiddish, or Polish), have been placed on the site. The interviews may be browsed alphabetically or searched via a keyword search engine. A few problems were encountered using the latter, but the site as a whole is simply a wonderful resource for researchers, teachers, students, or anyone who wants to learn more about heartbreaking and incredible stories of loss and survival during the Holocaust." Description by Richard Levy < rslevy@uic.edu > in H-Holocaust, 9/2/2000. [emphasis added]
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THE HOLOCAUST
CONSIDERED
WITHIN A CONTEXT OF OTHER HUMAN TRAGEDIES
THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
The First Genocidal Holocaust of the 20th
century; A Display of Human Indifference and Denial
RWANDA Leave
None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda A Human Rights
Watch Publication. This is one of the many superlative sources of
information that Human Rights Watch makes available online. It provides a
well organized thoroughgoing account of what happened in Rwanda and some
reasons why there was no significant intervention by the United Nations,
particularly why the U.S. did not interve.
The
Triumph of Evil; how the West ignored
warnings of the 1994 Rwanda genocide and turned its back on the
victims. Hosted by PBS, "FRONTLINE," A strong website
with a clear message: " 'Never
Again,'
The World's Most Unfulfilled Promise."
Ghosts of Rwanda -- Looking back a decade
later on the bitter aftermath of mass murder. This website is an excellent place to begin a
study of the Rwanda genocide and Western indifference. It
provides a prize winning series of unforgettable, videos.
"Shake
Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda"
Carnegie Council ON ETHICS AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (Resource Library
-- Speech Transcript).
Lt. Gen. Roméo A. Dallaire the Force Commander of the UN
Assistance Mission to Rwanda, 1993-1994, talks about his
experiences and about the phrase Never again. Before
reading this transcript one should be generally familiar with the
course of events that fostered genocide in Rwanda. DARFUR
"Holocaust Awareness" is meaningless unless it Generates Action to End
the Horrors of Genocide
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The site constitutes a mine of information and correlates well
with "Ghosts of Rwanda," another FRONTLINE website. Both together
constitute an exceptional educational resource. (See the next listing)
This is a "FRONTLINE," website closely related to "The
Triumph of Evil...." (See the preceding listing).
I would strongly recommend reading General Dallaire's
book Very highly acclaimed, it won the 2004 Governor General's Literary
Award for Nonfiction, Canada Council for the Arts. The book is
available at Snell Library, Northeastern University: Dallaire
, Roméo A., Shake Hands With the Devil: The failure of Humanity in
Rwanda, (NY: Carroll & Graf, 2005). SNELL DT
450.435.D35 2005
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"Awareness" is the attribute of the well informed "Never Forget"
A video advocacy and education campaign to help end the crisis in Darfur, Sudan.
Watch expert videos and follow new developments on our blog.
Watch and record video appeals, and email them to world leaders.
Volunteer, donate, and spread the world to support our work.
ISRAEL
/
PALESTINE
Ideological conflict and Apartheid:
Many Israeli soldiers and civilians
call strongly for peaceful solutions.
Palestinians speak for themselves in the Palestine Information Center
YESH GVUL
(“There is a limit !”)
In revealing the deep moral convictions of a prominent group of Israeli
soldiers, this website clearly underlines the tragedy of Israeli
occupation. "Yesh Gvul... is an Israeli peace group campaigning against the occupation by
backing soldiers who refuse duties of a repressive or aggressive nature.
The brutal role of the Israeli army in subjugating the Palestinian
population places numerous servicemen in a grave moral and political
dilemma, as they are required to enforce policies they deem illegal,
immoral and ultimately harmful to Israeli interests. The army hierarchy
demands compliance, but many soldiers, whether conscripts or reservists,
find that they cannot in good conscience obey the orders of their
superiors.
Yesh Gvul arose in response to the
1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, as growing numbers of soldiers grasped
that the campaign, with its bloodshed and havoc, was an act of naked and
futile aggression in which they wanted no part. 168 servicemen were jailed,
some repeatedly, for refusing to serve in the campaign: the actual number
of refusals was far greater, but their rising numbers deterred the army
from prosecuting most of the refuseniks. The first Palestinian intifada in
1987 likewise prompted further refusals, with close on 200 jailed, though
the army again backed down from jailing many of the recalcitrant soldiers,
indicating that refusals were significantly more numerous. A notably high
ratio of refuseniks are combat officers (ranking from sergeant to major)
i.e. soldiers who have served with distinction."
"The Voice of
Palestine" The Palestinian Information Center:
Palestinians speak for themselves.
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GENERAL RESOURCES FOR HOLOCAUST, GENOCIDE & OTHER HUMAN TRAGEDIES
A virtually unlimited source of information, the Center sponsors conferences, cultural events, films and art exhibitions. It is particularly useful because much of the material from these events and exhibitions has been made available online. Indeed, the art exhibits are unusually comprehensive, featuring very recent art as well as work by Holocaust survivors and by artists who perished in the Holocaust.ARTISTS / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / DOCUMENTARY / GYPSIES / ARMENIAN GENOCIDE / THIRD WORLD
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"We live in a time of unparalleled instances of democide, genocide and ethnocide. The Holocaust, the genocides in Turkey, Cambodia, Tibet, & Bosnia, the disappearances in Argentina & Chile, the death squad killings in El Salvador, Stalin’s purges, the killing of the Tutsi in Rwanda… and the list goes on….
Mass violence, torture, violations of fundamental human rights, and the mistreatment of human beings is not a new aspect of humanity; documentation of such events spans the historical record. However, technology has taken these cruelties to new levels.
It is imperative that a greater understanding of the psychological, cultural, political, and societal roots of human cruelty, mass violence, and genocide be developed....".
This web page has many unique links including some which lead to extensive bibliographical material covering worldwide, historical and contemporary instances of genocide, as well as others leading to web pages by hate groups and Holocaust "revisionists". For example, she provides a link to the home page of the Institute for Historical Review, (the pro-Nazi "revisionist" organization which publishes The Journal of Historical Review)
GENOCIDE / GENERAL / "DEMOCIDE" / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / DENIAL / HATE / THIRD WORLD
Freedom, Democracy, Peace; Power, Democide (genocide & mass murder) and War.
"It is true that democratic freedom is an engine of national and individual wealth and prosperity. Hardly known, however, is that freedom also saves millions of lives from famine, disease, war, collective violence, and democide (genocide and mass murder). That is, the more freedom, the greater the human security and the less the violence. Conversely, the more power governments have, the more human insecurity and violence. In short: to our realization that power impoverishes we must also add that power kills....
The purpose of this web site, then, is to make as widely available as possible the theories, work, results, and data that empirically and historically, quantitatively and qualitatively, support these conclusions about freedom. This is to invite their use, replication, and critical evaluation, and thereby to advance our knowledge of and confidence in freedom--in liberal democracy. It is to foster freedom"
GENOCIDE / GENERAL / DEMOCRACY / DEMOCIDE
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Web Genocide Documentation Centre; Internet Resources on Genocide and Mass Killings.
Gendercide Watch
"...seeks to confront acts of
gender-selective mass killing around the world...."
WOMEN / GENOCIDE / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / CRIMES
GENOCIDE / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / DOCUMENTARY / CRIMES / PERPETRATORS / GENERAL / THIRD WORLD
GENOCIDE / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / DOCUMENTARY / CRIMES / PERPETRATORS / GENERAL / THIRD WORLD
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EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / GENOCIDE
ARTICLES, ESSAYS,
PROFESSIONAL PAPERS
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Artwork by Holocaust Victim Is Focus of Dispute, by Celestine Bohlen (New York Times, June 20, 2001) "A bitter international scandal has erupted in a city in Ukraine, about 30 miles from the Polish border, where last month workers from Yad Vashem, Israel's main Holocaust museum, chiseled five fragments from a newly discovered series of wall paintings. They are the last known work of Bruno Schulz, a Polish Jewish writer, artist and Holocaust victim." Without permission the murals were removed and brought to Israel to be displayed at Yad Vashem's new historical museum in Jerusalem when it opens in 2004. Yad Vashem claimed that it had a "moral right" to all such remnants of the Holocaust. This was fiercely disputed by Polish officials who said the removal of the murals "bordered on vandalism."
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Eichmann, the Banality of Evil, and Thinking in Arendt's Thought, Paper given at the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, in Boston, Massachusetts from August 10-15, 1998. Quotation from author's abstract: "I analyze the ways in which the faculty of thinking can avoid evil action, taking into account Hannah Arendt's discussion regarding the banality of evil and thoughtlessness in connection with the Eichmann trial. I focus on the following question posed by Arendt: "Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining and reflecting upon whatever happens to come to pass, regardless of specific content and quite independent of results, could this activity be of such a nature that it 'conditions' men against evildoing?"
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Holocaust and Genocide Studies Online version (essays and reviews published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) This most essential periodical describes itself as "…the premier forum for work on the extensive body of literature and documentation on the Holocaust and genocide. It features essays and reviews that cut across the disciplines of history, literature, economics, religious studies, anthropology, political science, sociology, and others." An excellent archive of this Journal's essay titles and abstracts is available online; however, the full text of the articles may be used online only by subscribers to the printed journal.
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Literature of the Holocaust; maintained by Al Filreis. This is certainly an extraordinary source of information. Organized alphabetically (with a helpful search engine) it provides electronic access to complete articles (on virtually every conceivable aspect of the Holocaust) from many sources including major newspapers. Also listed as part of the category, VALUABLE COLLECTIONS OF LINKS TO HOLOCAUST WEBSITES
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Millersville University's Annual Holocaust Conference Program Homepage Full text versions of conference papers for the years 1996-1999 may be found in The Electronic Journal of Annual Holocaust Conference Papers. Several of the papers serve to challenge the relatively recent tendency to interpret the Holocaust narrowly as an outgrowth of traditional anti-Semitism with only Jewish victims. See for example Omar Bartov's essay maintaining that Nazi"death factories" are best understood in the context of 20th century warfare. This is also one of the themes in his book, Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation (New York : Oxford University Press, 1996).
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H-Holocaust: Professional Papers (the listing as of, 8-6-2009) xoxoxo
- NEW! DIMINISHING THE COMPLEXITY AND HORROR OF THE HOLOCAUST: USING SIMULATIONS IN AN ATTEMPT TO CONVEY HISTORICAL EXPERIENCES
- NEW! SHOULD THERE BE HOLOCAUST EDUCATION FOR K-4 STUDENTS? THE ANSWER IS NO
- GERMANY: THE LEGACY OF BYSTANDERS, COWARDS, INFORMERS, DESKTOP MURDERERS, AND EXECUTIONERS
- THE ROLE OF "PRODUCED REALITY" IN THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS WHICH LED TO THE HOLOCAUST
- FORERMYTEN. ADOLF HITLER, JOSEPH GOEBBELS OG HISTORIEN BAG ET FOLKEMORD
- "THE
ETERNAL JEW" - A BLUEPRINT FOR GENOCIDE
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The Secular Word "HOLOCAUST": Scholarly Sacralization, Twentieth Century Meanings by Jon Petrie.
Jon Petrie conclusively demonstrates that the word H/holocaust was understood very broadly, without Judeo-Christian sacrificial connotations, prior to World War II and for a considerable time afterwards. "In the opinion of this writer," Petrie contends, "the implicit denial within the Holocaust Studies community that "holocaust" had a significant secular history prior to its employment as a referent to the Nazi Judeocide helps to support the idea that "h/Holocaust" can only be legitimately applied to the Nazi killings which, in turn, supports the pernicious ahistorical idea, that since other massacres require a different vocabulary, other massacres are incomparable to the Judeocide." [emphasis added] One version of this article was published in Journal of Genocide Research 2:1 (2000), 31-63, under the title, "The Secular Word HOLOCAUST: Scholarly Myths, History, and 20th Century Meanings." For more on this topic see the Web Watch page on this web site, under the headings: / "Curtesy of the H-Net...." / "Semantics: the word "Holocaust" -- should it be broadly applied... to all of Hitler's victims? " .
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Who's History? Revisionism and the Romani Holocaust "Holocaust Efforts to historically legitimate the Romani Holocaust have often become entangled in a grotesque 'numbers game', as scholars have found themselves frequently compelled to contest the assertions of revisionists committed to downplaying the significance and extent of the Porrajmos. [This website provides] ....an example of one such encounter. Translated from the Hungarian, the first article is a revisionist broadside by Dr. László Karsai, the second, a rebuttal written by Dr. János Bársony and Ágnes Daróczi. Both articles originally appeared in Népszabadság."
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The International
Committee for Holocaust Truth: 1996 Three Reports.
The blatantly
homophobic International Committee for Holocaust Truth contends that
homosexuals were more the perpetrators of the Holocaust than its victims;
and the theme of the committee reports is well expressed by words which
appear at the conclusion of the first one: ("Hitler's plans for a
"1000 Year Reich," is a "Homofascist" Conspiracy which still thrives today
disguised as "gay" rights. Today's Holocaust memorial museums are being
co-opted as part of a broader homosexualist strategy.") The
ultra-right wing organization, "Washington for Traditional Values,"
selected the reports for presentation on their website.
In a similarly right wing revisionist essay, "Homosexuals: Holocaust Victims?" by the Family Defense Council, there are crude references to Liberals as promoters of the Homosexual political agenda particularly the memorializing of homosexuals in the Holocaust museums.
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Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals in the Third Reich - A substantial web page which offers, personal stories, audio recordings of prominent scholars who have significantly contributed to the study of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals, an annotated bibliography, an article on lesbians and much more. Though the organization of interrelated links may at first be somewhat confusing there is a wealth of information about homosexuals available here at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website. I would also recommend Homosexuals and the Holocaust, by Ben S. Austin, a brief historical overview with copies of some relevant documents. HOMOSEXUALS / VICTIMS / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
- This web site contains Weil's book which he describes as being a full-length scholarly monograph about the "violence" of Wagner's anti-Semitism. There are ten chapters totaling some 200 pages. Weil notes that his work stresses anti-Semitism and has "no extended discussion of Wagner's racial ideas." He recommends reading, Wagner, Race and Revolution by Paul Lawrence Rose for more information in that area.
- By William E. Seidelman. Dimensions; A journal of Holocaust Studies (published by the Anti-Defamation League's Braun Holocaust Institute).This is a short but informative article in four parts: "Medical Professions and Nazism's Programs"; "Doctors and Medical Atrocities"; "Reporting on the Role of Universities" with a brief conclusion.
- By Yankel Wiernik. This is a verbatim translation (from Yiddish) of the first eye-witness account of the Nazi death camp Treblinka. It was written by an inmate, Yankel Wiernik, a Jewish worker from Warsaw who spent a year there and finally escaped during the uprising in 1943. It was published by the Jewish underground, clandestinly, in early 1944. This online illustrated copy now appears courtesy of Ada Holtzman in her website, "We Remember." It is one among many items about Treblinka that can be found there.
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Defending a Holocaust Memory; Some disputed talk of soap-making.
By Charles A. Radin, Globe Staff, Boston Globe,
1/29/2001. An interview with Helen Mahut, a Northeastern University
Professor Emeritus. In April, 1945, having survived the Holocaust by
passing as a Christian, Professor Mahut and her husband Stefan discovered a
laboratory at the Institute of Hygiene in Danzig where the Germans had been
making soap out of human flesh. Unfortunately, despite the fact
that there are many such surviving eye witnesses, some Holocaust
historians will still yield to the arguments of the Holocaust
deniers, and say that this soap making never happened. To quickly
locate this article click on >==>
Globe's
website search.
Then, unless there have been changes made in the
search procedures, you must then select, "Search articles: [since
1979] and enter the
words: [Charles A Radin Defending a Holocaust Memory]
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WEBSITES MANAGED BY HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
Judy Cohen
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Irene Frisch -- Anne Frank and Me: Short Stories & Essays by Irene Frisch
This web site is a treasure of personal memories written by a Holocaust survivor. There are stories about hiding and rescue, places, people and post war experiences in Israel and the United States. They are written with a refreshing simplicity and disarming candor that speak volumes.
WOMEN / WITNESSES / SURVIVORS / POLAND / MEMORIAL / GENERAL
WITNESSES / VICTIMS / SURVIVORS / MEMORIAL / WOMEN
Ms. Opfermann was always very active, with remarkable versatility, as a lecturer, teacher, and author.
See e.g., <Charlotte Opfermann's "The Bialystok Children"> where Ms. Opfermann relates her personal account as a witness to the treatment of the 1,264 Bialystok children at Theresienstadt. The Nazi's pretended they were willing to save these Jewish children as a part of an "exchange" deal with Great Britain; but the children remained at Theresienstadt for only a short time before being transported to Auschwitz. The German's continued to negotiate with Britain long after the children had been murdered
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The Heart Has Reasons -- Meetings With Holocaust Rescuers by Mark Klempner
The website provides an extensive bibliography of works in English that deal with rescuers during the Holocaust.
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