Literature of the Holocaust

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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• TO SAVE A LIFE: STORIES OF JEWISH RESCUE, is a previously unpublished book in which personal narratives and photographs reveal how certain individuals acting upon their own moral convictions saved the lives of Jewish people from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

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• 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?