Holocaust & World War II

Databases

Databases are online collections of information from journals, magazines, books and other sources authored by subject-area experts. Materials found in a database are invisible to a search engine such as Google.

To access World Book Encyclopedia, use the following word as the username and password: waucondagrade

To access Gale in Context: Middle School, click the Google sign-in button.

Websites

When using information from websites or looking for new ones to use in assignments, make sure you can answer "yes" to the following three things:

1) Readable -- Do I understand what I am reading?

2) Reliable -- Is the site safe, authoritative,and accurate ? Did an expert person or organization write the information? How do I know?

3) Relevant -- Is the source on topic, focused and useful?

The following websites are readable, reliable and relevant. 

• The Holocaust Explained

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  • Holocaust Encyclopedia

• USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive