During the fourth quarter you will be embarking on a major research project in World History. This project will have some connection to the Holocaust: the name often used to refer to the genocide of millions of Jews and other persecuted groups in Nazi occupied areas of Europe during World War 2. This project will contain both a written and an artistic component. The first step of your project is to choose a specific topic from the topics below. We will be officially signing up for topics the week after we get back from spring break; however, I thought some of you might like to get a head start during the break. If you show me evidence that you have done some research (i.e. email me links/sources you have found), I will reserve a topic for you before others have a chance to choose it. No more than 2 people per class are allowed to research the same topic.
General resources:
Books
Go to Destiny to search for resources. Items about World War II mostly have 940.53 and 940.54 as their call numbers; however, some other items relevant to your topic might be in other areas. Please search with several keywords.
Databases
For reliable sources, including primary sources, use databases!
Online
Try the regular Google, as well as Duck Duck Go, and Google Scholar as your search engines. You might notice differences between the three. Keep track of the keywords you use; use Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) and quotation marks ( " " ) to search for exact phrases or names.
Here is a list of websites that might be relevant to your topic:
Holocaust and World War II maps from the Jewish Virtual Library
Mapping the Holocaust / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, including their Holocaust Encyclopedia; and their "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race" series.
The Harvard Law School Library Nuremberg Trials Project
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
Simon Wiesenthal Center: Library and Archives
Avalon Project: International Military Tribunal for Germany
Holocaust Denial on Trial: David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt
Holocaust Timeline (The History Place)
Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Holocaust
JewishGen's Holocaust Database
Remember.org: A Cybrary of the Holocaust
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Virtual Museum
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Online Exhibitions
Voice Vision - Holocaust Survivor Oral Histories
The Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust
Virtual Cinema from the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
YIVO Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland
The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure portal
​DigiBaeck (16th Century-present)
German History in Documents and Images, Nazi Germany: Documents, images and maps.
The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross
War Diaries from the the Netherlands
Daily Reports of the Gestapo Headquarters Vienna 1938-1945
Felix Posen Bibliographic Project on Antisemitism
German Anti-Semitic Propaganda, 1909-1941
Background: Resistance from the British Library's "Voices of the Holocaust"
Concentration camps vs. extermination centers - Auschwitz: Place of Memory and Museum
Types of camps - The Holocaust Explained
iWitness: USC Shoah Foundation, One Voice at a time (testimonies). Ask Mr. Biggs for your keycode when you register for the first time