Holocaust Twentieth Century By Time Period

Holocaust Twentieth Century By Time Period

The history of the Holocaust: the systematic attempted destruction of the European Jews by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Over ten million innocents, including about six million Jews, perished at the hands of the Nazis.

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Holocaust Memorial Day - Dedication to the memory of thousands of Freemasons who died during the Holocaust.
Guardian Unlimited Special Report - Focus: The Holocaust - Comment and analysis about the historical event and its commemoration. Includes profiles, audio clips, firsthand survivor stories and archived news reports from the 1930's and 1940's.
Jewish Virtual Library - The Holocaust - An online encyclopedia covering anti-Semitism to Zionism.
March of Remembrance and Hope - Student's account of visiting Holocaust sites as part of this event. Includes history and photographs.
Justice Matters - Legacies of the Holocaust and WWII - Book review with biographical information, a dedication, pictures and excerpts, and images.
Divided Lives - Untold stories of Jewish-Christian women in Nazi Germany. A commercial site providing excerpts and ordering information.
The Children Who Cheated the Nazis - Site of a BBC documentary about the Kindertransport, including history, images, and music lyrics.
The Center for Holocaust Humanity Education - Part of Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion. Dedicated to education, teacher and clergy training, advocacy, and research relating the lessons of the Holocaust to issues and challenges facing humankind today.
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann - Trial documents, biographies, photos, resources, and a study guide to accompany the television program.
Simon Wiesenthal Center - Museum focusing on racism in America and the history of the Holocaust.
The Holocaust - Links to related documents.
Northwest Center for Holocaust Education - Educational projects and programs.
Recovered Memories and the Holocaust - An essay by Mark Pendergrast.
When You Were in Auschwitz - An article By Liliana Sharett.
Holocaust Pictures and Stories - Focuses on non-Jewish and Polish victims of the Holocaust: photos and survivor stories.
Courage And Survival - The Holocaust - Brief biographies and stories of the victims, survivors, and rescuers.
Guide to Online Resources on Holocaust Era Assets - Lists names of potential owners of Holocaust era assets.
Holocaust Links - Directory of websites providing information, literature, lesson plans, organizations, memorabilia, resistance, and other topics related to the Nazi genocide.
Holocaust Rescuers Bibliography - An extensive partially-annotated listing of books about Holocaust rescuers with links to more information.
The Beth Shalom Holocaust Web Centre - Collection of related sites, including a web-based introduction for school pupils.
Natanson Memorial - A simple but moving Holocaust memorial page.
David Irving's Hitler - A Faulty History Dissected - A book containing two essays by Eberhard Jäckel: Innocence of Hitler and Irving, Hitler, and the Murder of the Jews.
Humor as a Defense Mechanism in the Holocaust - An investigation by Chaya Ostrower for her PhD on the types and functions of humor used by Jews during the Holocaust.
Holocaust Survivors' Network - A tribute to survivors of the Nazi Holocaust.
Holocaust Memorial at MELRC - A virtual memorial to the holocaust, with links to other holocaust sites.
Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Walpersberg - A meeting point for survivors and relatives of the former underground aircraft factory called REIMAHG (Flugzeugwerke Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring) near Kahla, including news, history, visitor information, and projects.
Angels Of Death - The Nazi Doctors - Biographies, including survivor testimonies and graphic photos.
The History of the Jews and Holocaust - Project with information on beliefs and customs, holocaust of Jews, historical time of Jews in Estonia, chronology of Jews in Europe, and references.
The Holocaust Kid - A collection of stories by Sonia Pilcer that explore the psychological issues of being a child of Holocaust survivors.
Storojinet Jews Memorial Web Page - The story of the old Jewish village and the Riegler family during the war with pictures from the modern city.
Rescuers - Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust - Interviews with and portraits of people who rescued, including maps, historic images, and essays on courage and altruism.
Middle East Observer - Links and articles on the causes of the Holocaust and the behavior of the perpetrators, victims and the bystanders.
Holocaust Memorial Center - Documents the horror of the period and the rich culture and history that was lost.
The Bible Foretold the Holocaust - Holy Scriptures foretold the circumstances and some of the details of the Holocaust.
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies - A collection of over 4,300 interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust.
The Holocaust Chronicle - Companion site to the not-for-profit book.
The Wannsee Conference - A meeting in Berlin with 15 top Nazi bureaucrats to coordinate the Final Solution (Endlösung) in which the Nazis would attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe.
The Assassins of Memory - Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust - A book consisting of five essays by Pierre Vidal-Naquet.
The History Place - Holocaust Timeline - Informational events from 1933 through 1945.
Anti-Semitism and Holocaust - Extensive directory of sites on anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, the Holocaust, Holocaust denial, and related topics.
Recollection from the Shoah - An article By Michael W. Klein.
Auschwitz Survivor Tells of Vain Uprising - News article as told by a survivor.
Gray Matter - A movie of a leading Austrian forensic psychiatrist who's alleged to have murdered hundreds of children during the holocaust and used their brains for experiments.
Schindler's List - Review of the dvd and film.
The German Army and Genocide - Site to accompany exhibition at Cooper Union's Houghton Gallery, New York City, December 1999 - February 2000. "The defeated Germans began to construct a myth that became a central tenet of postwar West German society. That myth promoted the idea tha
The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - An opponent of the Nazi regime, and writer of a diary.
The Second Generation Group from Nuremberg - Children of survivors from the Jewish Holocaust provide archives, photos and history resources.
The Einsatzgruppen - The history of the SS Einsatzgruppen through photos, documents, and perpetrator and victim testimonies.
Ghetto Song - A poetic tribute to the children in Theresienstadt.
Jewish Slaves Furbish Nazi Dress - An article of fashioning German women in the Third Reich by Dr. Irene Guenther.
President Warfield - The history of the steamship President Warfield/Exodus 1947 as well as other refugee ships and the displaced persons after the Holocaust.
To an Unknown Girl in Auschwitz - Poetic homage to a victim.
Holocaust - Links to resources.
Remember - Forum for survivors and their descendants, to promote remembrance.
Hogan's Heroes and the Holocaust - A paper that explores the connection between the popular TV sitcom and the historical event.
The Nuremberg Laws - Results of the Congress of the National Socialist Workers' Party (NAZI) that convened on September 10, 1935.
The Children Of Izieu - The story of the Jewish children at the orphanage known as La Maison d'Izieu that includes information on the children, Nazi biographies, SS testimonies, galleries, poetry, books, and links.
All About the Holocaust - Compilation of sites.
The Holocaust - Crimes, Heroes, and Villains - Stories of Auschwitz and biographies of the major names of the time.
Hermann Friedrich Graebe - Account of Holocaust Mass Shooting - An eyewitness account which suggests the well-organized procedure for mass shooting that the elite Schutzstaffel (SS) soldiers had developed by 1942.
Himmler's Speech at Posen - Speech by the SS leader in which he speaks openly about the Holocaust with audio..
Ordinary People, Victims of the Holocaust - Online memorial to the Nachimzon, Wolowelski, Friedberg and Mirabel families, whose lines had only one survivor after the Holocaust. Including photographs and genealogical tree.
A Challenge to David Irving - Dedicated to criticizing the statements made by David Irving.
Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust - Excerpted from the book Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.
Antisemitism - Its History and Causes - The writing by Bernard Lazare trying to understand a phenomenon of hatred, not the work of a self-hating Jew.
Hagshama - Resources and articles.
Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor - A belief that the purity of German blood is essential for the further existence of the German people on September 15, 1935.
Schindler Stories - His and others's stories, and their experiences with the German rescuer.
America and the Holocaust - Examines the complex social and political factors that led the American government to ignore the Jewish victims of the Holocaust until 1944.
Children of the Holocaust - An online history project by Russell Goldstein.
Paperclip Campaign - Holocaust Days of Remembrance - To honor the victims of the Holocaust and the victims of terrorism, people are asked to wear a paperclip during the week in which Holocaust Remembrance Day occurs.
Rosa Robota and the Holocaust Resistance - An article By Allan E. Mallenbaum.
Jewish Holocaust Links - Directory on related topics.
Law for the Protection of Hereditary Health - An attempt to improve the German Aryan breed on July 14, 1933.
Shoah - Twentieth Century Genocide - A look at Hitler's rise to power and at the holocaust he created.
Second Generation Connections and Resources - Provides a setting for discussion and learning, and a location to seek helpful resources.
Holocaust/Shoah - Categories of links and resources.
Jaslo - The birth and death of a Jewish community in Poland from its beginnings to the Holocaust as written by Dr. Jakub Herzig.
Holocaust Memories - Dedicated to keeping the memories alive, to remind us to not let this happen again. Information, photographs, poetry and links.
Effective Representation of the Holocaust - A paper by Joy Schoenberger.
The Holocaust\Shoah Page - Links to many articles.
Holocaust Rescue Efforts of Rabbi Chaim Michael Dov - Describes effort to purchase the freedom of some Jews from Nazi Germany, an effort that failed because the money was not raised in time.
The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials - Supporting documents.
Holocaust Studies - An introduction and related issues.
Resistance - Overview of several areas of resistance activities to Nazism and the Holocaust, in Eastern Europe and by Jews in the concentration camps as well as in Germany.
Holocaust Photo Project - Includes pictures and information from tour of Maidanek, Treblinka and Aushwitz.
A Miracle in Denmark - The rescue of the Danish Jews is an inspiring story: almost the entire Jewish population survived Hitler's death camps.
The Nuremberg Laws on Citizenship and Race - The Reich Citizenship Law of September 15, 1935.
Schindler Survivors - Includes biographies and images of several individuals whom Oscar Schindler rescued from the Holocaust.
Foundation Chambon - To explore and communicate necessary and challenging lessons of hope intertwined with the Holocaust's unavoidable lessons of despair.
Holocaust Newspaper Archive - More than 50,000 fully searchable pages, including a timeline, history, The Store, and resource links.
No Way Out - A story of a family's letters by Susan Prinz Shear, available in formats as Readers Theatre Play, Student/Teacher Workshop or Curriculum.
Terezin Initiative Institute - Information on the Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp in Bohemia and Moravia. Includes documents, studies, publications, library, and database of prisoners. Also in Czech and Dutch.
Sisters of the Shoah - Three survivor tales, three golden fates, and three iron wills.

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