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Holocaust Resources
Drake's Collection of Holocaust books
Cowles Library holds many books related to the holocaust. Below is a link to some of them, done by doing a "Subject" search on the word, "Holocaust".
Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature
This encyclopedia profiles 128 authors of works dealing with the Holocaust. All were alive during the time period and many survived concentration camps. The alphabetic entries include brief biographies of the authors, information on the significance of their work, a critical appraisal of their work, and a selected bibliography.
Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings
This is the on-line version of the traveling exhibit that Cowles Library hosted from March 26 - May 19, 2005.
Historical Abstracts - EBSCO
Indexing and abstracts of over 2,100 scholarly journals in world history, from 1492 to the present, excluding the U.S. and Canada. Links to some full text where available.
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
The major forum for scholarship on the Holocaust and other genocides, Holocaust and Genocide Studies is an international journal featuring research articles, interpretive essays, and book reviews in the social sciences and humanities. It is the principal publication to address the issue of how insights into the Holocaust apply to other genocides.
Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work
Available on-line through CREDO Reference, this work features 300 bio-critical essays on writers of memoirs, novels, poetry, short stories, and drama.
Holocaust Overview from Encyclopædia Britannica Online
Overview of the Holocaust and related topics
I will bear witness: a diary of the Nazi years
This is the diary of Victor Klemperer. A Jew in Dresden with an Aryan wife, Victor kept this diary from the Nazi seizure of power until Germany's defeat. This work gives the reader all the little details about life as a Jew in Nazi Germany that sometimes get lost in more comprehensive works.
Jews and Judaism in the Middle Ages
This work by Theodore Steinberg (Call Number BM180 .S74 2008), although not about the Holocaust, discusses the history of Jews in the Middle Ages; a time when attitudes and issues developed which laid the groudwork for the holocaust.
Judaica Sound Archives
From Florida Atlantic University, JSA features over 70,000 Judaica sound recordings (in English and Yiddish, from the US and abroad) of music, liturgy, humor, and theater.
Lódz Ghetto : a history
Call number DS135 .P62 L645313 2006 Isaiah Trunk reconstructs the founding, organization, and feeding of the ghetto and devotes detailed chapters to forced labor, disease and mortality, daily physical abuse, and the deportations.
Maus: a survivor's tale
Written by Art Spiegelman, this graphic novel tells the story of the author's family in the Holocaust.
Nazi Germany and the Jews
This is an excellent two-volume set by Saul Friedlander. Part I is the Years of Persecution: 1933-1939 and Part II is the Years of Extermination: 1939-1945. Volume I is call number: DS135 .G3315 F75 1997 V.1 and Volume II is call number D804.3 .F753 2007.
Original Sources
Published by Encyclopedia Britannica. Includes original source documents across U.S. & world history, literature, social sciences, science, math, religion, and more.
SHOAH Foundation
The SHOAH Foundation page provides information and education about the Holocaust.
The Holocaust: a history of the Jews of Europe during the Second World War
Written by Martin Gilbert, this is one of the best and most comprehensive books about the history of the Jews in World War II Europe.
The men with the pink triangle
A book about the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany.
There once was a world: a nine-hundred-year chronicle of the shtetl of Eishyshok
Written by Yaffa Eliach, this incredible book details the history of one Jewish town from the Middle Ages to its destruction in World War II.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
This site contains excellent on-line exhibits as well as primary source documents and photographs.
Voices of the Holocaust
This site contains transcripts (and in some cases audio files) of approximately 70 interviews that were conducted by Dr. Boder of the Illinois Institute of Technology. In 1946, he traveled to Europe to become the first researcher to record the actual testimonies of Holocaust victims.
Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs
Located in Jerusalem the website of this organization contains excellent information including a searchable database of victims.
