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- Michel Fingerhut's "Documentary
Resources on the Nazi Genocide and Its Negation" (in French and
English)
- Buchenwald - a visit fifty years later
- Students commemorate "African Holocaust" at Penn
- Terrence
Des Pres, "Lessons of the Holocaust" (1976) - New York Times op ed piece
on the trials of teaching (and learning about) the Holocaust
- Holocaust
Teaching Gaining a Niche, but Method is Disputed
- Learning
the Holocaust through stamps
- Terrence
Des Pres on humor and the Holocaust, comment by Froma I. Zeitlin
- Bob Kunst on humorous treatments of the
Holocaust (Feb. 1999)
- TO SAVE A LIFE: STORIES
OF JEWISH RESCUE, is a previously unpublished book in which personal
narratives and photographs reveal how certain individuals acting upon
their own moral convictions saved the lives of Jewish people from
Nazi-occupied Europe.
- Oxford English Dictionary entries quoting
the word "holocaust"
- DEAD: The
Holocaust
in Historical Context, an Internet
extension course offered by Dickinson State University
- A collection of over 3,500 videotaped interviews
with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust, the
Fortunoff
Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
is part of Manuscripts and Archives, at Sterling
Memorial Library, Yale University.
- Lawrence Langer on Yale's video archive of
Holocaust testimonies (1996)
- INDEX: Survivor testimonies
(excerpts) - postwar experiences
- The
difficulties of interviewing survivors
- Geoffrey Hartman on the Yale archive
-
"Neo-Nazis
Now Network on Line and Underground",
by ALAN COWELL
Oct. 22, 1995, New York Times
- Sociologist probes people's
motives for supporting the Nazi Party - by Ellen K. Coughlin
from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Klaus Barbie trial - women testify
- Women and the Holocaust
- The first international war crimes trial in 50 years opened on
May 7, 1996, with
a Bosnian Serb accused of taking part in a
systematic reign of terror,
described by a prosecutor as ''events of unspeakable horror.'
- Eichmann trial in TV documentary
- The International Auschwitz Council said
Tuesday it opposed the construction of a
shopping center or any other
business near the site of the World War II-era Auschwitz concentration
camp (April 1996).
- Auschwitz: who would control its meaning?
- Newsweek, January 1995
- Nuns near Auschwitz remove religious
symbols, end claim to ownership
- Abbe Pierre, France's most popular
defender of the poor and often revered as the conscience of the
nation, partly retreated Tuesday in the face of a storm over his
support for an author who questions the Holocaust (April 1996).
- CORRECT - 2000 not 3000
French urged to return 2,000 stolen art
works (November 1998)
- New evidence of Vichy's anti-semitic
enthusiasm, October 1996
- Thoughts on the role of Jewish
police - by Alexander Kimel
- Alexander Kimel's on-line
Holocaust Magazine for post-Holocaust issues
- The
Holocaust/Genocide Project (HGP) is an international, nonprofit,
telecommunications project focusing on the study of the Holocaust. A
project of the International Education and Resource Network (I*EARN),
the HGP involves schools in the United States, Israel, Australia,
Argentina, Bulgaria, Belarus, Russia, Poland, South Africa, Germany,
and elsewhere
- Pope
visits Poland and talks about the Christianizing of the Holocaust
(June 1999)
- L'Chaim: A
Holocaust Web Project. The compiler writes; "Welcome to the L'Chaim:
A Holocaust Web Project Home Page. This site is being developed
by Robert J. Bennett , a graduate student at the
University of Baltimore I have designed this
site to serve others interested in the Holocaust as a
central listing, development and link site for
other Holocaust sites on the Web."
- DEAD
Jan Karski
- Excerpts from Karski's account of the Warsaw
Ghetto
- "Why, Oh God,
Why?" by HALINA GORCEWICZ, based on damaged pages salvaged from
original diaries, translated by Jerzy Klinger. The site contains the full
text of a book based on the diaries of a young girl incarcerated in the
Warsaw Ghetto for 3 1/2 years.
- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - an account
by Marek Edelman (1945)
- Are Poles treated fairly today? -
a brief exchange (August 1996)
- Review of Goldhagen's Hitler's
Willing Executioners by V. R. Berghahn
- Milford Plaines's "African
American
Holocaust site" (be warned: shocking images)
- Sanford Marcus, "The Next Holocaust"
- ?????Yad Vashem
- YAD VASHEM no longer on official itinerary
for visiting dignitaries
- Nazi
manipulation of language: this University of Tasmania, Australia site
highlights a scholarly
essay focusing on Nazi manipulation of language.
- Reach
and Teach.
"Reach and Teach" Worldwide HOLOCAUST Education is a group of survivors,
their offspring and educators online seeking to educate and inform youth
about the Holocaust, Kindertransport and related topics.
- DEAD
A Collection of Historical and Contemporary Photographs - Ron Greene
- Battle of Stalingrad: fifty years later
Germans attempt to mourn the dead
- Skeptic Magazine: This magazine
debunks numerous
bizarre theories including those of Holocaust deniers. Contains
interesting, amusing, and biting rebuttal of Holocaust deniers'
claims.
- Review of film about Leni Riefenstahl
- Janet Maslin on Leni Riefenstahl
- Anti-Nazi Olympics, 1996, 50 years after
the 1936 Olympics in Berlin
- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
- a review
- Simon Wiesenthal Center
- Anne Frank House
- Anne Frank - 1997 Anne
Frank on Broadway, per Vincent Canby, is "stuck in the 50s" (December
1997 review)
- I.
G. Farben (in German)
- An Auschwitz
Alphabet. This personal and creative web site is
dedicated to Primo Levi, chemist, writer and survivor of Auschwitz.
While it does not try to be as comprehensive as the Cybrary or Nizkor,
this site gives a general overview of the Holocaust mainly through
excerpts from memoirs and scholarly works, primarily Levi's.
- Photographs of Auschwitz by Alan
Jacobs
- Directions for visiting Belzec today
END HERE
- Bibliography
about rescuers and rescue during the Holocaust
- Jerusalem One gopher site. This
gopher site contains information on
Judaism in general and one link specifically on the Holocaust.
- Review of Anne Frank
Remembered, February 1996
- The Holocaust and Israel
Reborn: From Catastrophe to Sovereignty by Monty Noam Penkower (Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 1994. 376 pp - reviewed
- Nysernet on
the Holocaust contains essays and excerpts from
documents (notably Nazi documentation and postwar trials). Also
includes a collection of photographs. (This user-friendly
web site displays photographs taken from the
Nysernet Holocaust gopher.)
- Elie Wiesel on taking sides - passage
from his Nobel Peace Prize speech
- Louisiana
Holocaust Survivors' home page
- Cybrary of the
Holocaust - an online cybrary of text, art, photos, and graphics
where all interested may share in the teaching and learning of the
Holocaust.
- HOLOCAUST
FAQ: Operation Reinhard: A Layman's Guide, part 2 of 2 only
- HWEB
- ASSOCIATION
OF HOLOCAUST ORGANIZATIONS - a wide array of organizations
- Facing History
and Ourselves Foundation
- Facing History & Steven Spielberg collaborate
on Schindler
- Steven Spielberg faces the Holocaust --
1993 New York Times article by Bernard Weinraub
- "The Story of
Oscar Schindler - Rake and Saviour"
- Facing History & Ourselves new
"resource book" - described, chapter by chapter
- THE
PHILADELPHIA CENTER ON THE HOLOCAUST, GENOCIDE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
- An Army officer who took the words of the nation's Commander in Chief to heart
and went off on his own
IN SEARCH OF HUMAN-RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
among Haitian penitentiary inmates faced a
court-martial with his career and his conscience on the line.
- Discussion of genocide as a term
(July 1996)
-
Holocaust Rescuers Bibliography - compiled (in progress) by Mary Mark
(mmbt@andrew.cmu.edu), Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon
University
- Deniers' Web at
Institute for Historical Review
- Alliance for Judaism
and Social Justice
- Rescuers WWW Page - CMU
- Archive of materials pertaining to "denial"
and "revisionism"
- Holocaust Museum
- Bibliography of Survivor
Memoirs - as of Oct. 1994
- NO RUSH TO JUDGMENT: By moving too
slowly against Balkan atrocities, the
world community is encouraging still more war crimes - by JAMES O.
JACKSON/THE HAGUE With reporting by James L. Graff/Zenica, J.F.O.
McAllister/Washington, Nomi Morris/Berlin and Colin Soloway/Vitez
- "The Spectacular
State: Fascism and the Modern Imagination"
- Ravensbruck
- Ravensbrück Monument
- Philip Trauring's Home Page, with a link to the HOLOCAUST ARCHIVE
- Sociologist probes peoples'
motives for supporting the Nazi Party
- Monitoring
electronic fascism - article about Ken McVay's net-vigilance written
by Michelle Betz, published in the March 9, 1995 issue of The Jewish
Western Bulletin; take a look at McVay's Nizkor Project,
the purpose of which is "to deal with electronic fascism" and "monitor the
Internet daily" (to receive information about the Nizkor Project send an
e-mail to listerv@oneb.almanac.bc.ca and include in the body of the
letter the single word: index. To search the Holocaust archives, try http://search.nizkor.org/search.html.
- The Nizkor Project
announces its Holocaust web crawler, which
maintains up-to-date indexes for over thirty Holocaust-related sites.
- In Lieu Of
Flowers - In Memory of the Jews of Malsch, A village in Southern Germany
by Louis Maier. For half a century the author kept much of the history
of his life under the Nazis
and the destruction of his family and community
to himself and only reluctantly
shared his thoughts and memories with the
closest of friends.
- National
Socialism "primer" - warning: hateful stuff.
- William Heyen, "My Holocaust
Songs" and "Sonnet and
Haiku: Forms from the Reich University" (1991)
- Shoah bibliography
- On Appelfeld's Badenheim 1939 and
Jewish pro-fascism
- An article by Appelfeld about the 1941
destruction of his family
- Heinrich Boll: brief overview of his
writings from a review of recent work
- John Felstiner, "Poetry in the Face of the
Holocaust: Celan, Stuzkever, and Others"
- Antisemitism at Texas A&M -
Nov.
1996
-
Nixon urged audits of Jewish contributors (Dec. 1996)
- NASA's Nazis
- On the track of paintings stolen by the Nazis.
- "Hitler's
Swiss Connection," by David Lee Preston (January 1997)
- Swiss kept billions in Nazi-looted
gold (May 1997)
- Madeline Kunin's mother had Swiss bank account
(July 1998)
- Swiss banks slow to respond to claims
(September 1996)
- Swiss bank caught shredding wartime
records (January 1997)
- U.S. report details close
Swiss-German war ties
- Swiss students help survivors
- Paul Touvier, French war criminal, obiturary (1996)
- Number of survivors alive today
(as of 1996)
- A French writer critical of what he
calls
Holocaust myths has been invited to visit by the Syrian government
and a
Lebanese anti-Israel club (July 9, 1996)
- `Songs of Remembrance' stir with words, May 1996
- Germany Moves Again to Censor Internet
Content, by Nathaniel C. Nash (New York Times, Jan. 29, 1996)
- Hamburg files destroyed (1/96)
- A survivor speaks about academic
approaches to the Holocaust - 12/95
- Holocaust books
available via the web
- Rudner Collection acquired by North
Carolina State University. The collection contains more than 1,900 books
and videotapes, as well as unfinished manuscripts and research materials
reflecting Rudner's extensive investigations into European Jewish culture
and the Holocaust.
- TWILIGHT ZONE WAS ALBERT SPEER A REPENTANT NAZI
OR A MAN IN DENIAL? JOHN ELSON TIME Magazine
October 30, 1995 Volume 146, No. 18
- Denial takes many forms (Oct. 1995)
- Daily Pennsylvanian article about
Holocaust Studies (April 1995)
- Germany's neo-Nazis are in a two-year retreat, their
political parties
banned, their homes searched almost weekly, their physical moves
constantly monitored. Yet scores -- perhaps hundreds -- have found shelter
in electronic fortresses that authorities say they can barely penetrate
(AP wire story - June 26, 1995).
- Lucy
Dawidowicz, "That Wicked Man Hitler" - an excerpt
- Fred Rosenstiel, 83, Devoted His Life to
Planting Flowers (June 1995 NYT obituary)
- Philip Gourevitch, "What They Saw at the
Holocaust Museum"
- Anton Gill on The White Rose movement
- interview with Primo Levi
(Italian, chemist, writer,
survivor of Auschwitz).
- Rudolf Vrba
- Philadelphia
Orchestra Performs Music
Written at Terezin - 1994
- Terezin-Cabaret
web site
- Cambodia 20 Years After Genocide -
New York Times article - 2/6/95
- Cambodia "Killing Fields"
site - with link to survivor stories
- Wansee Conference:
English translation of minutes
- "Whose Memory Lives When the Last
Survivor Dies?" - Jan. 1995 article about the problems attending the
various 50th anniversary commemorations
- Philadelphia Orchestra performs music
composed at Terezin
- Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust:
A Model for a Caring Community, by Eve Fogelman
- Ralph A. Austen, "The
Uncomfortable
Relationship: African Enslavement in the Common History of Blacks
and Jews"
- Paul Berman on twenty-five years of
perceived discord between America's blacks and America's Jews.
- Spielberg's Visual Archive to Air on Internet-TV
- House Historian Fired, New York
Times article
- House Historian Fired by Gingrich,
1/7/95
- House Historian Fired, a discussion
- Discussion of Danish Rescue and King
Christian's Moral Leadership
- The Vatican's report - a New York
Times editorial
- Schindler a Hero but not Righteous
- Photo of Schindler, cover of
Saturday Night magazine, issue of April 1994
- Schindler's List airing on TV
criticized by Republican congressman (March 1997)
- Herbert Steinhouse's "The
Real Oskar Schindler
- General Web Resources
on
the Holocaust compiled by
Stuart D Stein, Senior Lecturer in Sociology/Social Psychology,
University of the West of England
- Boston Globe article about Rena
Finder's response to Schindler's List
- Rena Finder's letter about Oskar Schindler,
1992
- Music at Terezin
- List of major Holocaust research centers
- On Building of a Holocaust Monument in
Stockholm, Sweden
- Oral History Archive in Michigan
- Oregon politicians equate gays and Nazis
- The Pink
Swastika by Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams
- The
Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals: An Annotated Bibliography of Sources
in English, compiled by Gerard Koskovich
- Personalizing
the Holocaust's Gay Victims
- Ethics of Using Nazi
Research Data
- Bayer
Co. and the Nazis
- "Love Letters to Hitler" published
(New York Times article, 1994)
- Nuremberg commemorates the 50th
anniversary of
the start of the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal on Nov. 20, 1945.
- Hannah Arendt and Martin
Heidigger
- Aharon Meytahl on Arendt and
Heidegger
- Jonathan Kozol's review of new
book about children of the camps (October 1996)
- The Impact
of the Holocaust On Survivors and Their Children, a paper by Sandra S.
Williams, Judaic Studies Program, University of Central Florida
- Lithuanian Jewish heritage in
danger
- Nazi medical materials used after
war
- University of Vienna Medical Faculty dismisses
claims that a Nazi-era anatomy textbook was researched using
Holocaust victims
- Ninth graders visit the Holocaust Museum and
create web sites
- Bonn data laws prevent release of Waffen
SS names (Dec. 1996)
- SS
veterans are receiving German pensions in U.S.
- How
to commemorate the Allied victory over Japan - 1995?