You can also search our OPAC (online public access catalog) for "Internet sites about Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)" in the TITLE field. This will retrieve several useful sites for further research.  

You might want to visit our LINKS site from the main UHS library page http://www.uhslmc.org/links.htm  -- this will take you to our "BackFlip" web sites. 

REFERENCE SOURCES (a sampling)

Additional print resources at the UHS Library Media Center : (a sampling)

ONLINE DATABASES (use keyword or subject online databases in OPAC or link from our home page at http://uniondaleny.org/uhs_cybrary.htm)

SELECTED WEBSITES:

http://www.manteno.k12.il.us/webquest/high/SocialScience/Holocaust/HOLOCAUST.HTM

WebQuest created by Tim Guerin : Introduction:  The year 1933 brought the National Socialist German Workers Party to power in Germany. The fascist leader Adolf Hitler put his Nazi party in motion with a detailed plan to exterminate the Jewish race. Germany was a modern and civilized nation; nevertheless, the "final solution" to the Jewish question was genocide. You will examine the stages of Jewish persecution during World War Two and ultimately decide if any attempts could have been made to stop such a human atrocity. See other webquests created by the Manteno School District (Manteno, Illinois) at: http://www.manteno.k12.il.us/webquest/high/high.htm  

http://www.afet.org.uk  The Anne Frank Educational Trust.

The Anne Frank Trust UK was launched in 1991 as a sister organisation of the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam. It is a not-for-profit, multi-faith educational charity that is financially supported by members of the British public. It aims to carry out Otto Frank's wish that his daughter's diary be used as a general force for good by helping to educate against racism and and all forms of prejudice.

http://www.annefrank.com Anne Frank Center USA. The Anne Frank Center USA works to:Effectively introduce young people to Anne Frank, the Frank family's personal story, and the history of the Holocaust;
Help young people and communities explore the difficult issues of discrimination, intolerance, and bias-related violence in a positive and constructive way;
Engage young people to examine and challenge discrimination, intolerance, and bias- related violence;
Carry the Center's anti-bias message to isolated areas and under-served communities across the nation, where people seldom have opportunities to discuss the problems of racism and discrimination, and to effect community-initiated action;
Illustrate the importance of personal responsibility and tolerance by honoring those individuals who actively confront prejudice and bias-related violence.

http://www.spectacle.org/695/ausch.html Auschwitz Alphabet. Compiled by Jonathan Wallace. An Auschwitz Alphabet is the result of many years of reading about the Holocaust, and about the Auschwitz death camp in particular. My introduction to the material, as an adult, was Primo Levi's The Drowned and the Saved, which I have made liberal use of here. Levi, to whom this Alphabet is dedicated, emerged from Auschwitz still a gentle man, with a sense of humor and with strong compassion. He is your best guide to these horrors.

http://www.remember.org/jacobs/index.html Auschwitz-Birkenbau. Alan Jacobs (photographer) has been to Auschwitz and Birkenau many times. During those visits, he interviewed numerous survivors and took many photographs of the camps. He also spent many hours viewing artifacts, art and photographs stored at the Auschwitz Museum Archives. He made a film using the words and art of survivors and SS photos. Although still a work in progress, it has been shown in universities, professional conferences, cultural centers etc. There have been several shows of Jacobs Auschwitz photographs, some of which can now be seen on the Internet.

http://www.friendsofgfh.org/ American Friends of Ghetto Fighters House

http://www.candles-museum.com Candles Holocaust Museum (Indiana). The C.A.N.D.L.E.S. Holocaust Museum was dedicated in the Spring of 1995.Its purpose is to educate the public about the horrors of the holocaust and to tell the story of the childeren who survived. Further, visitors learn about the experiments twins were forced to endure. "Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it." has become the basis for the museum's efforts to educate and enlighten about the Holocaust. The slogan of the Museum is "Let us remove hatred and prejudice from the world and let it begin with me. "C.A.N.D.L.E.S. which stands for Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors is the only museum of its kind in the State of Indiana. It is located in Terre Haute just north of Interstate 70 on U.S. 41 at 1532 S. Third Street. A trip through the Museum is a unique and unforgettable experience.

http://holocaustcenter.com Detroit's Holocaust Center. The Holocaust Memorial Center (HMC), the first institution of its kind in the United States, is the fulfillment of a dream nurtured by Founder and Executive Vice President Rabbi Charles H. Rosenzveig and embraced by his fellow members of Shaarit Haplaytah ("the Remnant," survivors of the Holocaust). It took nearly twenty years of planning and grassroots fundraising before Shaarit Haplaytah was ready to build. The word "holocaust" is derived from a Greek translation of a phrase in Genesis and means "total burning." The Holocaust refers to the murder of six million Jews and the destruction of more than 5,000 European Jewish communities at the hands of the Nazis and their allies from 1933 to 1945. The Holocaust Memorial Center's mission is expressed in its logo, which is composed of the four stylized Hebrew characters that spell the word Zachor, which means "Remember."

http://www.huntel.com~ht2/holocst.html El Paso's Holocaust Museum.

http://www.zipmall.com/holocaust.htm Tampa Bay's Holocaust Museum.

http://www.wiesenthal.com/mot Simon Wiesenthal Center

http://www.vhf.org  SHOAH's Visual History Foundation. The Shoah Foundation's archive consists of more than 50,000 testimonies from survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust. Videotaped in 57 countries and 32 languages, the archive is unprecedented in scale, content, and educational potential.

http://www.ushmm.org U.S. Holocaust Museum.

http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/germ/wanneng.html - Full text of the Wannsee Protocol - this document is based on the official U.S. Government translation prepared for evidence in the trials at Nuremberg. This document is in the public domain and may be freely produced.

http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/  A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust. This web site provides an overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music, movies and literature. This site includes a timeline and 
a special section listing teacher resources and student activities.

http://www.annefrank.com/site/af_life/1_life.htm - Anne Frank - her life and times. Born on June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust. She and her family, along with four others, spent 25 months during World War II in an annex of rooms above her father's office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This web site includes diary excerpts, teacher resources, and a timeline.

http://www.wiesenthal.com/mot/youthedu/teens.cfm - Museum of Tolerance web site. The Museum of Tolerance is a high tech, hands-on experiential museum that focuses on two central themes through unique interactive exhibits: the dynamics of racism and prejudice in America and the history of the Holocaust - the ultimate example of man's inhumanity to man. The Museum, the educational arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, was founded to challenge visitors to confront bigotry and racism, and to understand the Holocaust in both historic and contemporary contexts.The genesis of the Museum, the first of its kind in the world, came from the leadership of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the internationally recognized Jewish human rights organization named in honor of Simon Wiesenthal. Since its opening in 1993, it has hosted 3.5 million visitors from around the world, and nine heads of state including King Hussein of Jordan, three Prime Ministers of Israel and the Dalai Lama. The Museum receives 350,000 visitors annually including 110,000 children 

http://www.uen.org/utahlink/lp_res/AnneFrankDiary.html  -web site for the Diary of Anne Frank.  Shortly before going into hiding Anne had begun keeping a diary. On June 20th, 1942, she wrote down what her reasons were for doing so: "I can never bring myself to talk of anything outside the common round. We don't seem to be able to get any closer, that is the root of the trouble. Hence, this diary. I don't want to set down a series of bald facts in a diary like most people do, but I want this diary itself to be my friend, and I shall call my friend Kitty." Anne wants to do more than write a story: "I want to go further, I can't imagine having to live like Mummy, Mrs. Van Daan, and all those women who do their work and are later forgotten. I must have something more than a husband and children, something I can devote myself to. I want to live on after my death."

http://www.remember.org/educate/intro.html - virtual tour of Auschwitz -- .the written and photographic record of five days spent visiting two Nazi concentration camps in and near Oswiecim, Poland in September 1993. Known as Auschwitz and Birkenau, the two camps were liberated in January 1945. The remains of the camps, the survivors' and liberators' testimonies, and the documentary evidence leave no doubt as to the enormity of the crimes against humanity which were committed there. This journal, which started out as a letter from the web site creator to his friend of 30 years, John Anderson Parker, is a work in progress and an expression of the belief that "we must never forget".

http://www.spectacle.org/695/ausch.html - An Auschwitz alphabet.

http://www.annefrank.com/ - Anne Frank Center USA web site.

http://remember.org/ - Cybrary of the Holocaust.

http://www.holocaustcenter.com/new/links/?goto=2  Holocaust Memorial Center. Includes "oral histories" of several survivors.

http://www.datasync.com/~davidg59/holo_art.html - Holocaust poetry and art.

http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/website.htm A Teacher's guide to the Holocaust - related web sites.

http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/ -Holocaust survivors. Why have this web site? Because history is not just about events, it is about human lives. The web site creators present history with a human face. Read the stories of the survivors. Hear them speak. Look at their family photographs.  Consult the encyclopedia.  Read a historical introduction to the Holocaust. Leave your thoughts or ask your questions on the web site's discussion page.

http://www.mtsu.edu/~baustin/knacht.html Kristallnacht,or  "the Night of Broken Glass" occurred on the nights of November 9 and 10 when gangs of Nazi youth roamed through Jewish neighborhoods breaking windows of Jewish businesses and homes, burning synagogues and looting. In all 101 synagogues were destroyed and almost 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed. 26,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps, Jews were physically attacked and beaten and 91 died.

http://www.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/ - TO SAVE A LIFE: STORIES OF HOLOCAUST RESCUE this web site is dedicated to personal narratives and photographs andreveals how certain individuals acting upon their own moral convictions--while endangering their own and their families' lives--saved the lives of Jewish people from Nazi-occupied Europe.

http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm - "The History Place" web site -- World War II in Europe. This web site contains a chronology timeline with photographs and text of the major events occurring during World War II.

http://www.holocaustcommission.org/cyberlinks.html - the Holocaust Commission web site - contains numerous Holocaust "cyberlinks".

http://www.ushmm.org/ - The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum web site. Includes an  article on Oskar Schindler.  Oskar Schindler (1908-1974), a Sudeten German industrialist, established an enamel works outside the Krakow ghetto and protected Jewish workers employed in the enamel works from deportation.

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