Primary Resources
- Holocaust Resource Center - Yad VashemAccess to testimonies, diaries, photographs, maps, artifacts, etc. regarding the history of the Holocaust.
- Video Testimony Resource CenterA collection of video testimonies from survivors. Videos can be browsed by topic or location.
- Voices of the HolocaustIn 1946, Dr. David P. Boder, a psychology professor from Chicago's Illinois Institute of Technology, traveled to Europe to record the stories of Holocaust survivors in their own words. This online archive preserves these recordings--the earliest known oral histories of the Holocaust.
- The Auschwitz AlbumThe only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to the mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
- German Propaganda ArchiveCreated by Calvin College - Includes both propaganda itself and material produced for the guidance of propagandists. The goal is to help people understand the two great totalitarian systems of the twentieth century by giving them access to the primary material.
Websites
- Holocaust EncyclopediaFrom the U.S. Holocaust Museum.
- Nazi and East German PropagandaThe German Propaganda Archive includes both propaganda itself and material produced for the guidance of propagandists. Provides English translations.
- Nazi Germany (1933-1945)German History in Documents and Images (GHDI) is a comprehensive collection of original historical materials documenting German history from the beginning of the early modern period to the present.
Books
For a complete list of our print & eBooks on the Holocaust, follow this link.
Black Earth by Call Number: D803 .S69 2015ISBN: 9781101903452Publication Date: 2015-09-08A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time. Based on new sources from eastern Europe and forgotten testimonies from Jewish survivors, Black Earth recounts the mass murder of the Jews as an event that is still close to us, more comprehensible than we would like to think, and thus all the more terrifying.
By overlooking the lessons of the Holocaust, we have misunderstood modernity and endangered the future. The early twenty-first century is coming to resemble the early twentieth, as growing preoccupations with food and water accompany ideological challenges to global order. Our world is closer to Hitler's than we like to admit, and saving it requires us to see the Holocaust as it was -- and ourselves as we are
Victims and Survivors of Nazi Human Experiments by Call Number: D804.3 .W3964 2015ISBN: 9781441179906Publication Date: 2015-02-12Paul Weindling bases this study on the reconstruction of a victim group through individual victims' life histories, and by weaving the victims' experiences collectively together in terms of different groupings, especially gender, ethnicity and religion, age, and nationality.
The experiments are also linked, more broadly, to major elements in the dynamic and fluid Nazi power structure and the implementation of racial policies. The approach is informed by social history from below, exploring both the rationales and motives of perpetrators, but assessing these critically in the light of victim narratives.
Marking Evil by Call Number: D804.348 .M35 2015ISBN: 9781782386193Publication Date: 2015-05-30Talking about the Holocaust has provided an international language for ethics, victimization, political claims, and constructions of collective identity. As part of a worldwide vocabulary, that language helps set the tenor of the era of globalization.
This volume addresses manifestations of Holocaust-engendered global discourse by critically examining their function and inherent dilemmas, and the ways in which Holocaust-related matters still instigate public debate and academic deliberation. It contends that the contradiction between the totalizing logic of globalization and the assumed uniqueness of the Holocaust generates continued intellectual and practical discontent.
Ravensbrück by Call Number: D805.5 .R38 H45 2014ISBN: 9780385520591Publication Date: 2015-03-31A masterly and moving account of the most horrific hidden atrocity of World War II: Ravensbruck, the only Nazi concentration camp built for women.
Jewish Resistance to the Nazis by Call Number: D810 .J4 J49 2014ISBN: 9780813225890Publication Date: 2014-05-19This volume puts to rest the myth that the Jews went passively to the slaughter like sheep. Indeed Jews resisted in every Nazi-occupied country in the forests, the ghettos, and the concentration camps. The essays presented here consider Jewish resistance to be resistance by Jewish persons in specifically Jewish groups, or by Jewish persons working within non-Jewish organisations.
