Holocaust Museums and Memorials: Web Sites

• Auschwitz: https://www.auschwitz.org/en/

The post-camp relics are protected by the Museum created in 1947. The Memorial today is i.a. the Archive and Collections as well as research, conservation and publishing center.

• U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Recently revised, offering ability to search what is available at the museum. Be sure to check here first if you are going to visit.

• Yad Vashem

In Israel, the museum also offers a chance to submit searches through their Hall of Names project, where people can possibly find out what happened to members of their family. Contact them for more information.

• Museum of Tolerance | Los Angeles, CA

• Simon Wiesenthal Center at: https://www.wiesenthal.com/
  From their site: “The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international center for Holocaust remembrance and the defense of human rights and the Jewish people.”

• The Anne Frank House
  The Amsterdam museum dedicated to the memory of Anne Frank.

• Anne Frank Center USA
  https://www.annefrank.com

• Holocaust Museum Houston
• The Wright Museum of American Enterprise
  for World War II history.
• Holocaust Memorial Center – Detroit, Michigan
• Jehovah’s Witnesses
  https://www.watchtower.org/library/g/1995/8/22/nazism_exposed.htm
  This webpage includes diagrams of concentration camps that were distributed worldwide as early as 1933 in a magazine called “The Golden Age.” This website will add information about the ones that wore the purple triangle – Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Survivors Online

• From Ashes To Life/Lucille Eichengreen
  https://www.webtran.com/lucille
  This book has been an inspiration to the Cybrary and is now online. Read Lucille’sstory of survival, which is also available at our bookstore

• Telling their Stories

High school students at the Urban School of San Francisco conduct and film interviews with Bay Area Holocaust survivors in their homes. Students then transcribe each 2-plus hour interview, create hundreds of movie files associated with each transcript, and then post the full-text, full-video interviews on this public website as a service to a world-wide audience interested in Holocaust studies. See Project Descriptions for a more detailed overview of the course and project.

• Behind Every Name a Story – US Holocaust Museum

The  Museum’s Behind Every Name a Story project gives voice to the experiences of survivors during the Holocaust.

Online Education

• Facing History and Ourselves
  https://www.facing.org
• A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust
  https://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/Holocaust/
  Amazing…simply amazing. Student activities, timeline, links, and much more. “A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust” offers an overview of the people and events of the Holocaust. Extensive teacher resources are included.
• Literature of the Holocaust
  https://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/holhome.html
• What They Saw at the Holocaust Museum – by Philip Gourevitch.

Children of Survivors

• All Generations www.allgenerations.org.

Info Resources

• HateWatch – Hatewatch is a blog that monitors and exposes the activities of the American radical right.
• The Nizkor Project
  This is one of the most important and ongoing Holocaust projects on the Web. Actually it is a collection of projects, with a group of volunteers headed by Ken McVay. This is an important site to visit.
• Genocide Studies – https://www.yale.edu/cgp/
• Holocaust publications reviews and discussion group
  https://www.h-net.msu.edu/~holoweb/
  This site is a must visit. “H-Holocaust exists so scholars of the Holocaust can communicate with each other using this innovative and exciting new technology, and makes available diverse bibliographical, research, and teaching aids.”
• Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies:
  https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/
  “The site features excerpts from the testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses, including video and audio clips. The site also describes the history, mission, and activities of the Archive, provides access to our online catalog, and has a list of edited programs available for loan to schools and community groups.”
• Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
  https://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/imt.asp
  One of our most important projects is mounting the full proceedings of the Trial of the Major German War Criminals. We have so far mounted volumes 1-4 as well as numerous supporting document
• An Auschwitz Alphabet
  Jonathan Blumen has an intriguing site, inspired by Primo Levi and arranged around an alphabet of learning.
• This Must Be the Place (movie)

Remember.org is noted on the credits, for sharing historical photographs with the filmmakers.

CAMPS

• Gunskirchen Camp Liberation
  The site can be viewed at:
  https://remember.org/gunskirchen-intro.html
  There are 27 pages of commentary by soldiers who liberated the camp, as well as 2 dozen photos and illustrations after their liberation of the Gunskirchen concentration camp in Austria.