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Holocaust Research Guide
This guide offers online resources related to Holocaust education and remembrance, in conjunction with the Hate Ends Now Exhibit at Pingree on May 23, 2023.
Video: Step By Step: Phases of the Holocaust
From Facing History & Ourselves, Scholar Doris Bergen describes the phases of events that led to the Holocaust.
Facing History & Ourselves, “Step By Step: Phases of the Holocaust,” video, last updated April 15, 2022.
General Websites for Holocaust Research
Association of Holocaust Museums
Where to start your research or studies, and find museums near you.
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI)
Portal to information on Holocaust-related archives in institutions across Europe and beyond.
Holocaust Studies: The Basics (NYU)
Guide supporting teaching and research; gateway to primary resources and secondary materials.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Research and educational resources on the Holocaust.
Compilation of digital Holocaust resources and collections.
World Holocaust Remembrance Center for education, documentation and research.
List Curated by the New York Public Library.
Survivor Stories: Digital Resources
The Fortunoff Archive’s collection consists of over 4,400 testimonies of Holocaust survivors, witnesses and liberators.
Our mission is to give opportunity to survivors and witnesses to the Shoah—the genocide of the Jews—to tell their own stories in their own words in audio-visual interviews, preserve their testimonies, and make them accessible for research, education, and outreach for the betterment of humankind in perpetuity.
From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum explore diverse experiences of people during the Holocaust.
Books & Other Resources in the LLC Collection
America views the Holocaust, 1933-1945: A Brief Documentary History by Robert H. Abzug
Call Number: 940.53 ABZ (Secondary)
The Beautiful Days of My Youth : My Six Months in Auschwitz and Plaszow by Ana Novac
Call Number: BIO Nov (Memoir, Primary)
Darkness over Denmark : the Danish resistance and the rescue of the Jews by Ellen Levine
Call Number: 940.535 LEV (Nonfiction, Secondary)
I have lived a thousand years growing up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson
Call Number: BIO JAC (Memoir, Primary)
Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
Call Number: GN SPI (Graphic Novel)
Night by Elie Wiesel
Call Number: FIC WIE (Historical Fiction)
Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Umoja Noble
Call Number: 025.04 NOB (Nonfiction, Secondary)
Salem Press Encyclopedia Research Starter
Gale in Context: World History
Salem Press Encyclopedia Research Starter
Salem Press Encyclopedia Research Starter
Scholarly Articles
"How and Why I Write: An Interview with Elie Wiesel" by Heidi Anne Walker, The Journal of Education, 2008/2009 (JSTOR)
"National Days, National Identity, and Collective Memory: Exploring the Impact of Holocaust Day in Israel" by Gal Ariely, Political Psychology, 2019 (EBSCO)
"Anti-Muslim Racism, Post-Migration, and Holocaust Memory: Contours of Antisemitism in Germany Today" by Sina Arnold, Social Research, 2021. (EBSCO)
Documentaries*
After Auschwitz: Profiling Six Extraordinary Holocaust Survivors and Their Lives After the War (Kanopy)
America & the Holocaust (Kanopy)
*Use BPL eCard to access
Connecting to Today
“The more we come to know about the Holocaust, how it came about, how it was carried out . . . the greater the possibility that we will become sensitized to inhumanity and suffering whenever they occur.”
The Danger of Silence
Clint Smith
"We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't," says poet and teacher Clint Smith. A short, powerful piece from the heart, about finding the courage to speak up against ignorance and injustice. (TED)
Breaking free of stereotype threat with Claude Steele
ReThinking Podcast by Adam Grant
Claude Steele is one of the most influential social psychologists of all time. As a Stanford professor, he’s best known for his groundbreaking research on how the threat of being stereotyped undermines our performance. Adam talks with Claude about why the mere possibility of being stereotyped affects us, how we can protect ourselves from the harmful effects, and what healthy self-affirmation looks like. (TED Audio Collective)
My Synagogue Was Attacked, but That’s Not What Scares Me Most
By Marc Katz
NYTimes Opinion, April 23, 2023