Research Guide to the Holocaust
- Library Catalog Search Strategies
- Reference Sources
- Locating Periodical Articles
- Selected Journals
- Selected Videos
- Web Sites
- Teaching About the Holocaust
Image description:
The butterfly hovers above the red poppy, symbolic of the triumph of the human will and spirit. Special Commemorative Paintings by Mark Littlejohn*:
"The Red Flower"... 1999, for the blood of the murdered souls, upon which can be sown seeds of hope and tolerance.
"Butterfly"...2000, inspired by poetry of children in the camps and based on the poem, "The Butterfly."
(*Mark Littlejohn, M.D. is a resident of Blowing Rock, NC)
Library Catalog Search Strategies
For books about the Holocaust, search by subject for the phrase holocaust jewish 1939-1945 . The retrieved list will include many subheadings for narrower Holocaust topics. Also search the subject phrase asu holocaust project to retrieve a list of titles in this special collection. For books about more specific Holocaust topics, search either by subject or keyword for terms, such as holocaust survivors, auschwitz, concentration camps , or genocide.
Reference Sources
Associated Press (AP) Photo Archive
This database includes historical and modern photographs related to the holocaust.
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust
4 volumes
REF. D804.3 .E53 1990
History of the Holocaust: A Handbook and Dictionary
REF. D804.3 .E33 A94 1994
"Holocaust," in Encyclopedia Judaica
1971-72
REF. DS102.8 .E496 vol. 8, columns 828-906
The Holocaust Series
2001, 5 volumes
IMC 940.5318 G685de
"1939-1945: Nazi Extermination of the Jews," in Chronology Of European History 15,000 B.C. to 1997
Volume 3, p. 1086-1089
REF. D11.C57 1997
Locating Periodical Articles
Academic Search Premier
Indexes magazines, journals, and newspapers in all discipline, 1984 to current, with many full-text articles.
America: History and Life
Indexes journals and books on the United States and Canada, 1964 to current, citations and abstracts only. Links to the full text journals from JSTOR and Project Muse .
Historical Abstracts
Indexes journals and books, 1955 to current, on world history and related topics from 1450 to the present, citations and abstracts only. Links to the full text journals from JSTOR and Project Muse .
JSTOR
An online full-text scholarly journal collection.
Project Muse
Full-text of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and math from Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995-current.
Selected Journals
Holocaust and Genocide Studies Vol. 12, 1998-current, published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, Jerusalem.
Selected Videos
| America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference | Uses interviews, official photos, home movies, and archival footage to explore the factors that shaped America's response to the Holocaust. |
VC 7087 |
| Breaking the Silence | Examines the effects of the Holocaust on subsequent generations and the communications gap that has been created. | VC 6962 |
| Calling the Ghosts | Women survivors of Omarska detention camp decribe the camp and the situation in Bosnia and Herzagovnia (Serbo-Croatian language with captions in English). | VC 9092 |
| Choosing One's Way: Resistance in Auschwitz/Birkenau | Features thirteen survivors, each of whom contributes to the piecing together of this incredible story of heroism. |
VC 9484 |
| The Cross and the Star: Jews, Christians, and the Holocaust |
Examines the role of Christianity in the Holocaust and asks where the institutional churches and governments were while the Nazi atrocities were being committed. |
VC 9281 |
| Force of Evil | Uses archival footage and taped interviews with survivors to address questions of the Holocaust. | VC 9482 |
| Forget Me Not: the Anne Frank Story | Fictionalized account of an historical event to be used for interdisciplinary and multicultural studies of history, biography, literature, geography, tolerance, and intolerance. | VC 8257 |
| Genocide: the Story of Man's Inhumanity to Man | Tells the definitive story of the Holocaust. | VC 4808 |
| Holocaust: In Dark Places | Susan Sontag explores the meaning of Hitler's genocide. | VC 9447 |
| Holocaust: In Memory of Millions | From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Walter Cronkite chronicles the entire story of the Holocaust. | VC 8328 |
| The Janovska Camp at Lvov: Survivors Tell Their Story | Survivors of Nazi labor camp, Janovska, returned to the scene of the mass murders. | VC 9483 |
| Liberation | Documentary on the progress of the Allied offensive against Germany at the same time that Hitler was winning the genocidal war against European Jews. | VC 9285 |
| The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank | Documents the last months of Anne Frank's life in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. | VC 9481 |
| The Longest Hatred: the History of anti-Semitism | Traces anti-Semitism from its earliest manifestations. | VC 6982 pt. 1-2 |
| Love Story | Documentary about the love affair between a Nazi housewife and mother, and a young Jewish woman living "underground" in Berlin during World War II. | VC 9187 |
| Minorities in America: Lessons from WWII | Begins with the Tuskegee Experiment which set out to prove the theory that Blacks were incapable of flying airplanes. Includes segments on Navajo Code Talkers as well as the United States government's treatment of the Japanese after Pearl Harbor. | VC 10352 |
| Opening the Gates of Hell: American Liberators of the Nazi Concentration Camps | American veterans, among the first troops to enter Nazi concentration camps, relate their memories of that experience. Graphic archival footage. | VC 9274 |
| People of the Book | Focuses on the conflicts that arose in Europe between Christians and non Christians, culminating in the explusion of the Jews from Spain. | VC 4488 |
| Reflecting on the Holocaust | Francis Borkowski, Chancellor of Appalachian State University, interviews Zohara Boyd and Rosemary Horowitz, two women whose families survived the ghetto and work camps of German occupied Poland. The women, both members of the English faculty at Appalachian State, share their thoughts on the Holocaust and modern-day acts of discrimination. |
VC 9171 |
| Schindler | The story of Oskar Schindler is presented through archival film, photographs, and interviews with survivors and witnesses. | VC 9283 |
| Schindler's List | True story of the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party, womanizer and war profiteer, who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust. | VC 9633 pt. 1-2 ; VC 7638 Visually Impaired Edition |
| Shoah | The Nazi extermination of Jews is examined through interviews of survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators through footage of the sites of the death camps and environs as they appear today. | VC 10534 pt. 1-2 VC 10534 pt. 3-4 |
| Survivors of the Holocaust | Weaves archival footage with Holocaust survivors' personal testimonies. | VC 9273 |
| Theresienstadt, Gateway to Auschwitz | Chronicles the history of the Theresienstadt ghetto which was used during World War II by the Nazis as a transit camp for Jewish deportees en route to other death camps. | VC 9486 |
| They Risked Their Lives | Selected interviews of Holocaust rescuers in 12 countries which show a variety of people and their reasons for helping the Jews escape. | VC 9284 |
| Tomorrow Came Much Later: A Journey of Conscience | A documentary about a journey by a high school class, their teacher, and a survivor of the Holocaust. Includes visits to Warsaw, Auschwitz, and the Majdanek and Mauthausen concentration camps and an interview with famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. | VC 5031 |
| Les Violons du Bal | Filmmaker Michel Drach tells the story of his childhood during World War II and his family's escape from the Nazis (French with English subtitles). | VC 8140 |
| We Must Never Forget: the Story of the Holocaust | Using archival footage and interviews, including that of a survivor, the story of the Holocaust is related. |
VC 7782 |
| The Willy Lindwer Collection: Child in Two Worlds | This film examines how many Jewish parents sent their children into hiding in Christian foster home during World War II. | VC 9485 |
| The World of Anne Frank | Dramatic recreations from the diary of Anne Frank as well as documentary material to create the milieu in which Anne Frank lived. | VC 7781 |
Web Sites
ACADEMIC INFORMATION HOLOCAUST STUDIES (An annotated directory of Internet resources for the study of the Jewish Holocaust)
http://www.academicinfo.net/histholo.html
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ONLINE
http://www.adl.org/
CLAIMS CONFERENCE RESTITUTION GUIDE (Outlines and clarifies some of the major compensation and restitution programs currently available for Holocaust survivors and their heirs)
http://www.claimscon.org/
COMMITTEE ON CONSCIENCE WEB LINKS (Websites documenting genocide, ethnic strife, war crimes, and human rights violations worldwide)
http://www.ushmm.org/conscience
CYBRARY OF THE HOLOCAUST (Uses art, discussion groups, photos, poems, and facts to preserve memories and to educate)
http://remember.org/index.html
FORTUNOFF VIDEO ARCHIVE FOR HOLOCAUST TESTIMONIALS (Archive of videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors at the Yale University Library)
http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/homepage.html
GENOCIDE -- RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND RESEARCH (A reference and contact site for scholars and students from the Genocide Research Project of the University of Memphis Criminology/Criminal Justice Department and the Pennsylvania State University Sociology Department's Sociology Program; coverage includes the Jewish Holocaust as well as other groups)
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~genocide
HISTORY PLACE -- HOLOCAUST TIMELINE
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html
HOLOCAUST EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN -- TEACHING RESOURCES
http://www.mindspring.com/~cleanccl/holocaustteachingresources.html
HOLOCAUST ERA ISSUES (U.S. Embassy in Sweden; includes reparations information)
http://www.usemb.se/holocaust/index.html
HOLOCAUST/GENOCIDE PROJECT (A project of the International Education and Resource Network)
http://www.iearn.org/hgp/hgp-home.html
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER (Includes information on Holocaust genealogical research)
http://www.holocaustcenter.org/holocaust.shtml
HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE PROJECT (A writing project for high school students; the site includes teacher resources and web links)
http://www.hklaw.com/holocaust/
HOLOCAUST/SHOAH (David Dickerson's bibliography of web sites on many aspects of the Holocaust)
http://www.igc.apc.org/ddickerson/holocaust.html
MAVEN--HOLOCAUST AND ANTISEMITISM (Choose Holocaust to access a bibliography of web sites)
http://www.maven.co.il/
NIZKOR PROJECT (A response to Holocaust Revisionism/denial)
http://www.nizkor.org/
SHAMASH--THE JEWISH INTERNET CONSORTIUM , HOLOCAUST HOME PAGE (A project of Hebrew College, MAS, this site includes phots, a rebuttal to the Holocaust denial movement, and links to other sites)
http://www.shamash.org/holocaust/
U.S. HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM , Washington, D.C. (The site includes exhibitions, research, a library, archives, and a national registry of Jewish Holocaust survivors)
http://www.ushmm.org/
WITNESS AND LEGACY (The Holocaust art museum from NYSU at Albany)
http://www.albany.edu/museum/wwwmuseum/holo/
YAD VA SHEM (Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority Memorial Museum in Jerusalem; this site offers access to resources, education tools, links to related sites, and more)
http://www.yad-vashem.org.il/
Teaching About the Holocaust
Resources available in the Instructional Materials Center .
Content editor: Pat Farthing, farthingsp@appstate.edu