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1933 - 1945
1933 - 1945
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Holocaust.pdfWebsites
Websites
"The New England Holocaust Memorial was built to pay tribute to the six million killed and to honor our survivors. Located on Boston’s historic Freedom Trail, near Faneuil Hall, Quincy Market, and many other treasures of American history, the site offers a unique opportunity for reflection on the importance of human rights."
This website also has a virtual tour of the site, an overview of the Holocaust, survivors'' stories, and teacher resources.
UNESCO
"Every year around 27 January, UNESCO pays tribute to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and reaffirms its unwavering commitment to counter antisemitism, racism, and other forms of intolerance that may lead to group-targeted violence."
This website includes resources for Holocaust and genocide education, facts about the Holocaust, memories of Holocaust victims, and more.
This digital archive contains reports, letters, telegrams, and more that were sent to President Eisenhower between 1942 and 1955 that relate to the Holocaust. Included in this collection is Hitler's marriage certificate and will, reports recieved about the concentration camps, and more.
This website has compiled a large array of information about the Holocaust. Sections include Basic History, Persecution, Rescuers, Biographies, Aftermath, and more.
"The Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project is an open-access initiative to create and present digitized images or full-text versions of the Library's Nuremberg documents, descriptions of each document, and general information about the trials."
"These recordings are powerful personal accounts of the Holocaust from Jewish survivors living in Britain."
"In 1946, Dr. David P. Boder, a psychology professor from Chicago's Illinois Institute of Technology, traveled to Europe to record the stories of Holocaust survivors in their own words.
Over a period of three months, he visited refugee camps in France, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany, carrying a wire recorder and 200 spools of steel wire, upon which he was able to record over 90 hours of first-hand testimony. These recordings represent the earliest known oral histories of the Holocaust, which are available through this online archive."
The Imperial War Museums
The Imperil War Museums in the United Kingdom "is a global authority on conflict and its impact on people’s lives. [They] collect objects and stories that give an insight into people’s experiences of war, preserve them for future generations, and bring them to today’s audiences in the most powerful way possible."
This link takes you to their online Holocaust exhibition and resources.
"The Wiener Holocaust Library is one of the world’s leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust, the Nazi era and genocide. The Library’s unique collection of over one million items includes published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs and eyewitness testimony."
The site has many resources, but to go directly to their digital resources, click here.
For their introduction to the Holocaust that was designed specifically for schools, click here.
This website, developed by Dr. Nikolaus Wachsmann, a Professor in modern European history at University of London, focuses on the Nazi Concentration Camps that were in operation during the European Holocaust. This site includes videos, maps, a timeline, and more related to these Nazi Concentration Camps.
Highlights on this website includes information and testimony from three different Holocaust survivors, and the Museum's Educational Resources page.
Videos
Videos
The Holocaust, Genocides, and Mass Murder of WWII: Crash Course European History #40
This Crash Course European History covers and European Holocaust and mass murder the occurred during World War II.
The Path to Nazi Genocide
"This 38-minute film introduces the history of the Holocaust. It begins by looking back at the major changes from 1918 to 1933 that created the political climate for the birth and rise of the Nazi Party in Germany."
"James Bulgin is the lead curator for the Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War Museums. The new galleries at IWM London explore the history of how these events happened. This video is part one of an introduction to this complex history."
The Nazi Plan for Extermination
"The Nazi regime came to power in 1933, which saw the spread of their insidious ideas of racial ideology. Persecution and violence towards Jewish people living within the Reich became sinister and overt.... The new galleries at IWM London explore the history of how these events happened."
"They were children during the Holocaust. Today, they're among the last living survivors. Here, they share their stories, including what they want future generations to remember — and what’s at stake if we forget."
This hour long documentary follows survivors of the Holocaust as they share their stories with students in Texas.
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum presents Investigating the Holocaust. "Investigating the Holocaust is a series of short videos that trace the history of the Nazi Party from its inception through World War II and the policies that led to the murder of millions of innocent people."
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