Busse Library provides these resources and book titles for students and faculty seeking information on the Holocaust and World War II. For the purposes of this project, the Holocaust is defined as the period from 1933-1945 during which the Third Reich attempted to destroy the European Jewish community.
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The Nuremberg Trials -- Survivors -- The Formation of Israel -- Victim/Witness Accounts and Diaries -- Holocaust-Related Organizations -- Holocaust Memorials and Museums -- Research Institutes -- Holocaust Revisionism and Denial -- Victim Restitution -- Holocaust: Reference -- Busse Library Resources
The Nuremberg Trials (1945-1949)
- Nuremberg Trials: Famous World Trials
- Nuremberg Trials Project: Harvard Law School Library
- The Nuremburg War Crimes Trials: The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
- AMCHA: Israeli Centers for Holocaust Survivors and the Second Generation
- American Red Cross: Holocaust and War Victims Tracing and Information Center
- The Association of Second Generation Holocaust Survivors
- The Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
- The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous
- March of the Living
- NCSJ: Advocates on Behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States, and Eurasia
- The Righteous Among the Nations: Yad Vashem
- United Nations: 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
- World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust
- American Zionist Movement
- Beth-Hatefutsoth: The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora: Museum of the Jewish People
- The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Jewish National Fund
- The Virtual Israel Experience (VIE): The Jewish Virtual Library
- The WWW Virtual Library: Academic Jewish Studies Internet Directory
- The WWW Virtual Library: History: Israel
Victim/Witness Accounts and Diaries
- Holocaust: Personal Accounts: Yahoo
- Witness to the Holocaust: Georgia Tech Library and Information Center
- Witnesses: Cybrary of the Holocaust
- Yad Vashem: Remembrance
Holocaust-Related Organizations
- American Jewish Committee
- American Society for Yad Vashem
- Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
- B'nai B'rith
- Center for Jewish History
- Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
- The Polish American Congress
- World Jewish Congress
Holocaust Memorials and Museums
- The Anne Frank Museum, Amsterdam
- The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
- Dachau Memorial Site
- The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies: Yale University
- The Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial
- The Museum of Jewish Heritage: New York City
- The Museum of Tolerance: Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC)
- The Simon Wiesenthal Center
- Survivors of the Shoah: Visual History Foundation (VHF)
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Yad Vashem
- Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies: USHMM
- The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies: University of Minnesota
- The Fritz Bauer Institute: Study and Documentation Center on the History and Impact of the Holocaust -- aiding Germany in recovery and remembrance
- Massuah: Institute for the Study of the Holocaust
- Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies: Zell Holocaust Memorial, Chicago, IL
- Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Clark University, Worcester, MA
Holocaust Revisionism and Denial
- "Assaults on Truth and Memory: Holocaust Denial in Context." By Ward Churchill -- explores nature of denial publications
- David Irving: Britain's Holocaust Revisionist: Nizkor.org
- "Denial VS. Revisionism." By Ben S. Austin -- explores differences between approaches to history
- "Did Six Million Really Die: Truth at Last--Exposed." -- full-text of Ernst Zundel's controversial booklet
- "The Hoax of the 20th Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry." By Arthur R. Butz -- American revisionist and his most well-known work
- The Institute for Historical Review -- world's largest publisher of revisionism/denial literature
- The Nizkor Project -- web's largest gateway for battling revisionism and denial
- "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." -- noted revisionist text
- Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
- Holocaust Art Restitution Project
- Holocaust-Era Assets: USHMM
- Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation -- official site for Swiss Bank Claims
- Nazi Gold: Frontline: PBS
- Vatican Bank Claims
- The Holocaust Chronicle
- Holocaust Glossary: Terms, Places, and Personalities: Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC)
- Holocaust Photos: Jewish Virtual Library -- graphic images of history
- Holocaust Timeline: The History Place
- Maps of the Holocaust: The Jewish Virtual Library
- Mazal Library: A Holocaust Resource -- photos and original Nazi documents
- Fasching, Darrell J. The ethical challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima / c1993. BJ1188. F37 1993
- Frankl, Vitkor Emil. Man's search for meaning: an introduction to logotherapy / 1984. D810.J4 F72713 1984
- Furet, Francois. Unanswered questions: Nazi Germany and the genocide / c1989. D804.3 .A4413 1989
- Gilbert, Martin. The Holocaust: a history of the Jews of Europe during the Second / 1986. D810.J4 G522 1986
- Gutman, Israel. Encyclopedia of the Holocaust / c1990. D804.3.E53 1990, Ref
- Katz, Steven T. The holocaust in historical context / 1994- D804.3 .K378 1994
- Mayer, Arno J. Why did the heavens not darken? : the "final solution" in history / c1990. D804.3 .M39 1990b
- Tepper, Stephanie. Memory of the camps. c1989. Video D 810. J4 M45x 1989
- Wiesel, Elie. A Portrait of Elie Wiesel in the shadow of flames / c1988. Video PQ 2683. I32 Z7
- Yahil, Leni. The Holocaust: the fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945 / 1990. D804.3 .Y3413 1990
- Young, James Edward. The art of memory : Holocaust memorials in history / c1994. D804.3 .A82 1994
- Young, James Edward. Writing and rewriting the Holocaust : narrative / c1988. D810. J4 Y58 1988
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