Holocaust Web Resources

Holocaust Organizations

Cybrary of the Holocaust
Uses art, discussion groups, photos, poems to preserve memories and to educate about the Holocaust

Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
A collection of over 4,000 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust at Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University

Museum of Tolerance
A resource for information on tolerance and, more specifically, the Holocaust

Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
Foundation responsible for recording more than 50,000 unedited testimonies to be used as an educational and research tool

Wiesenthal Center
A 400,000 member strong international center for Holocaust remembrance, the defense of human rights and the Jewish people

Holocaust Memorials

The Beth Shalom Holocaust Memorial
Contains testimonies of witnesses and links

The Los Angles Holocaust Monument
Provides information on this monument

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
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.

Yad Vashem
Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Memorial/Recognition Site

Holocaust Education

Beth Hatefutsoth
Contains links to genealogy, music, photographs and education

Drew University Center for Holocaust Studies
Includes bibliographies and an extensive page of links

Facing History and Ourselves
National organization whose mission is to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry

The Holocaust Chronicle
An 800 page written resource published by Publications International, Ltd.

The Holocaust/Shoah Page
Ben S. Austin's site with information on the Nuremburg Laws, Kristallnacht, the T4 euthanasia program and the persecution of homosexuals during the Holocaust

Holocaust Studies Center - Bronx High School of Science
The Center's purpose is to maintain public awareness of the important lessons of the Holocaust, especially the urgent necessity to combat prejudice

IDEA (A Journal of Social Issues)
Contains articles, book reviews, photos and links

The Jay Shalmoni Memorial Holocaust Arts & Writing Contest
The goal of this contest is to educate the future generation through personal stories told tostudents by living witnesses who survived the Holocaust.

Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
Our first goal is to bring the story of the Jewish partisans to the widest possible student audience by creating a permanent, accessible and in-depth on-line resource on the subject.

Rickshaw Express
The Shanghai Experience

Holocaust Teacher Resource Center
Resources for teachers of the Holocaust.

Silent Voices Speak
A non-profit organization featuring Holocaust-related art exhibitions and lectures.

Rescuers

Chambon Foundation
Dedicated to the rescuers and survivors of Le Chambon

The Varian Fry Institute
"... dedicated to Americans who cared."
A project of the Chambon Foundation

The Varian Fry Foundation Project/IRC
An educational project of the International Rescue Committee, New York

Survivors

The "1939" Club
One of the largest and most active survivors' organizations in the United States

Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust
Objectives are to represent the interest of the child survivor community and to support each other, to keep alive the memory of the six million Jews - including the 1.5 million children - murdered during the Holocaust, and to pass on that legacy to future generations

Holocaust Survivors
Contains survivor stories (audio available), photographs and an historical introduction to the Holocaust. 

Perpetrators

Trial of Klaus Barbie
Contains many facts, links and bibliographical references

Adolph Eichmann
Short biography from The History Place

Nizkor Project: Adolf Eichmann
Nizkor's directory of information and pictures of Eichmann

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
PBS site on the documentary with teacher's guide and photos

The Camps

AICE - Documents Regarding Auschwitz
Documents include medical experiment journals, letters about Zyklon -B and the contruction of a crematorium

Auschwitz-Birkenau (Alan Jacobs)
Photographs, taken by Alan Jacobs, of the camp from 1978-1981

Propaganda

German Propaganda Archive
(Calvin College)
Contains propaganda information from the beginning of Hitler's rise through the end of World War II

Holocaust and the Arts

Terezin Chamber Music Foundation
Non-profit organization dedicated to assuring the permanence of the music written by composers who perished in the Holocaust

Assets Recovery

Frontline: Nazi Gold
Swiss Banks' Dormant Accounts Web Site

Holocaust Assets
Switzerland and WWII: The Documents

Anne Frank

A month by month look into The Diary of Anne Frank. Also includes a short history.