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• Read Pearls and Lace: Poetry by Magdalena Klein (1920-1946), the youngest child of a middle-class Jewish family in northwestern Romania. She was an eyewitness to the rise of fascism in Europe and the horrors of World War II.
  
  The Ghosts That Haunt Us
  An in depth and moving survey of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, The Ghosts That Haunt Us, features black and white portraits with the handwritten testament of their subjects in a manner that is both provocative and illuminating.
• Liberation ofGunskirchen, Austria – May 4, 1945
  This pamphlet was produced by the US Army after theyliberated a concentration camp in Austria calledGunskirchen Lager. The 71st arrived just days before VE day. Many graphic picturesincluded.
• Jacque Lipetz shares his story: “Looking back, thisoccupation was benign compared to the horrors of the Nazis, butwhat loss of freedom is benign? What security lies in notknowing if there will be a tomorrow.”
• Henry Cohen was the Director of Camp Foehrenwald, the second largest Jewishdisplaced persons center in the American Zone of Germany in 1946.
• Announcing “Lest We Forget”, a CD-ROMHistory of the Holocaust to be explored at the Cybrary, including video clips, pictures, and interface examples from this important learning tool.
• Auschwitz/Birkenau Photographs by Alan Jacobs taken in 1979-81. Incredible pictures; don’t forget to visit the Camps for more pictures.
• The Last Witness: The Child Survivor,a book by Judith Kestenberg and Ira Brenner is online.
• “In Auschwitz wurde niemandvergast.” (“Nobody was gassed at Auschwitz.”: 60 Rightist Lies and How to Counter Them)
• Courage Under Siege, a book by Charles Roland about the medical community resisting the ravages of disease and starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto, with actual pictures from the ghetto.
• For younger students, 3 books by Ina Friedman:Flying Against theWind,
  The Story of a Young Woman Who Defied the Nazis;The Other Victims;
  First Person Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted by the Nazis; and

  Escape or Die
  True Stories of Young People Who Survived the Holocaust

• Survivors of the Shoah Study Guide for the program, plus a Holocaust timeline.
• Children of Survivors 2ndGen Mailing List, click here
• The Wannsee Protocols, the historical notes from the meeting that planned the Holocaust.
• Documentation of The Mass Murder of Lithuanian Jewry by the SS Einsatzgruppen – “Action Groups”
• Read our Holocaust Remembrance Chat featuring John Loftus, Gary Mokotoff on Children of Survivors, and Dr. Konnilyn Feig. Plus journey through the Holocaust with the Interactive Map in Abe’s Story; or look for lost family by Tracing our Legacy. Also How the Cybrary Is Organized, plus a numerous new sites are featured on our Links page and I Think…, filled with the stories you’ve shared.