Repesentations of the Holocaust

academic approaches to the Holocaust, a survivor speaks against (December 1995)
Africans and Afro-Europeans living in Nazi Germany (and Nazi racial policy)
"African American Holocaust site" by Milford Plaines (be warned: shocking images)
"African Holocaust" commemorated at Penn - (Daily Pennsylvanian, March 15, 1995)
James Agee on reactions to Nazi atrocity films
anti-fascism - "pre-mature"
Antisemitism at Texas A&M (21 Nov 1996)
Auschwitz:
- Susan May Tell's photographs of Auschwitz
- a survivor of Auschwitz finally tells his story to his daugther on his deathbed
- Auschwitz: who would control its meaning? (Newsweek, January 1995)
- 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).
- Nuns near Auschwitz remove religious symbols, end claim to ownership
On Appelfeld's Badenheim 1939 and Jewish pro-fascism
An article by Appelfeld about the 1941 destruction of his family
Art:
- holocaust education through art
- learning about Holocaust art
Australia: Latvian-born war crimes suspect, having made Australia his home for many years, returns there to protest

Balkans: 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, November 1995). With reporting by James L. Graff/Zenica, J.F.O. McAllister/Washington, Nomi Morris/Berlin and Colin Soloway/Vitez
Klaus Barbie trial - women testify (Philadelphia Inquirer March 23, 1987)
BBC archive: witnesses to a crime against humanity
The Believer: a film about a Jewish teenager who joins his skinhead friends
Bergen-Belsen: hatikva sung during April 20, 1945 sabbath service (audio)
Heinrich Boll: brief overview of his writings from a review of recent work
Edwin Black
Edwin Black on IMB and the Holocaust
Erwin Blumenfeld - photographer
Henrich Boll, "Across the Bridge" - a simple mapping of the story
Tadeusz Borowski
Bernard Brown - taking care of others
Boder, David P.: voices of the Holocaust - 90 hours of first-hand testimony
Bosnia: 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.' (New York Times, May 7, 1996)
Buchenwald - a visit fifty years later (New York Times, April 10, 1997)
Buchenwald story aired on BBC
Buchenwald photos

Cambodia 20 Years After Genocide - New York Times article - 2/6/95
- Cambodia "Killing Fields" site - with link to survivor stories
- Cambodia 20 Years After Genocide - New York Times article - 2/6/95
Claude Cassirer - abhors aggressiveness
Paul Celan: his 1960 speech, "The Meridian", trans. Rosemarie Waldrop (PDF)
Paul Celan: John Felstiner, "Poetry in the Face of the Holocaust: Celan, Stuzkever, and Others"
children: Sonia Pilcer, The Holocaust Kid - stories
Christianizing the holocaust: Pope visits Poland and discusses this (New York Times, June 1999)
Commemorations:
- "Whose Memory Lives When the Last Survivor Dies?" - Jan. 1995 article about the problems attending the various 50th anniversary commemorations
- How to commemorate the Allied victory over Japan (New York Times Magazine, 1995)
- Nuremberg commemorates the 50th anniversary of the start of the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal on Nov. 20, 1945. (New York Times, 20 Nov 1995)
Alan Cranston obituary: Mein Kampf after the war

Discussion of Danish Rescue and King Christian's Moral Leadership
Lucy Dawidowicz, "That Wicked Man Hitler" - an excerpt
denial, an overview
denial: Deborah Lipstadt's blog
deniers: Institute for Historical Review
Terrence Des Pres, "Lessons of the Holocaust" (1976) - New York Times op ed piece on the trials of teaching (and learning about) the Holocaust
Des Pres, "Lessons of the Holocaust" (PDF version of the above)
photograph of Terrence Des Pres (from the jacket of the first edition of The Survivor
"Humor as a defense mechanism in the Holocaust" by Chaya Ostrower
Maurice Diamont - arrival in New York
Michel Fingerhut's "Documentary Resources on the Nazi Genocide and Its Negation" (in French and English)

William Emker discovers and publishes "Love Letters to Hitler" (New York Times article, May 25, 1995)
Eichmann trial in TV documentary (New York Times, April 30, 1997)
The Holocaust Encyclopedia by Walter Laqueur (Yale University Press)

John Felstiner, "Poetry in the Face of the Holocaust: Celan, Stuzkever, and Others"
The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies: A collection of over 3,500 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust, part of Manuscripts and Archives at Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University
- Yale archive's YouTube channel features excerpts from testimonies
- Yale testimonies on YouTube
- Lawrence Langer on Yale's video archive of Holocaust testimonies (1996)
- Geoffrey Hartman on the Yale archive
- Geoffrey Hartman gives us a talk on holocaust video testmiony at the Kelly Writers House, October 2001 (Note: this program was recorded and is available on the web.)
film: James Agee on reactions to Nazi atrocity films
French urged to return 2,000 stolen art works (November 1998)
- Hector Feliciano - On the track of paintings stolen by the Nazis (New York Times, November 4, 1997)
Being Frank with Anne

Anne Frank House
- Review of Anne Frank Remembered, February 1996
Varian Fry, helped save some 200 endangered refugees, mainly artists, writers and intellectuals, from the Nazis

Roger Garaudy, 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)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - a review
Oregon politicians equate gays and Nazis (25 Oct 1994)
Discussion of genocide as a term (July 1996)
Internet Resources on Genocide and Mass Killings compiled by Stuart D Stein, Senior Lecturer in Sociology/Social Psychology, University of the West of England
New York Times, Jan. 29, 1996)

Review of Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners by V. R. Berghahn

Hartman, Geoffrey: Geoffrey Hartman gives us a talk on holocaust video testmiony at the Kelly Writers House, October 2001 (Note: this program was recorded and is available on the web.)
Hatikva sung at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 (recording)
William Heyen, "My Holocaust Songs" and "Sonnet and Haiku: Forms from the Reich University" (1991)
Hitler's Mein Kampf: Alan Cranston obituary (January 2001)
"Hitler's Swiss Connection, vvv" by David Lee Preston (Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. 5, 1997)
"Hogan's Heroes" and the Holocaust
Oxford English Dictionary: "holocaust"
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
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Ninth graders visit the Holocaust Museum and create web sites (14 Dec 1996)
- Philip Gourevitch, "What They Saw at the Holocaust Museum"
Holocaust Rescuers Bibliography - compiled (work in progress) by Mark Klempner
Article about Holocaust Studies (Daily Pennsylvanian, April 1995)
Holocaust - Understanding and Prevention, Alexander Kimel's Holocaust magazine for post-Holocaust issues
The Nizkor Project announces its Holocaust web crawler, which maintains up-to-date indexes for over thirty Holocaust-related sites.
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. (May 11, 1996)
The House on Lippincott, a holocaust-related novel
"Humor as a defense mechanism in the Holocaust" by Chaya Ostrower
Christina Jeffrey, the House of Representatives Historian, Fired, New York Times article
- House Historian Fired by Gingrich, 1/7/95
- House Historian Fired, a discussion

IBM:
- IBM and the Holocaust - review of Edwin Black's book (March 2001)
- Edwin Black in the Village Voice
- Edwin Black's home page including links to reviews

Jan Karski: Excerpts from his account of the Warsaw Ghetto
Jan Karski site
Alexander Kimel, survivor's web site
Alexander Kimel: Thoughts on the role of Jewish police
Madeline Kunin's mother had Swiss bank account (July 1998)

Walter Laqueur's Holocaust Encylopedia
Latvia: war crimes suspect born in Latvia returns to Australia - January 2000
Claude Lanzmann on Shoah at the age of 85 (2010)
Lawrence Langer on Yale's video archive of Holocaust testimonies (1996)
Primo Levi
- article aboul Paul Steinberg's memoir of Auschwitz and Primo Levi
- Paul Steinberg/"Henri": JPG image of the above-mentioned article
- blog entry on Paul Steinberg/"Henri"
- interview with Primo Levi (Italian, chemist, writer, survivor of Auschwitz).
- photo of Jean Samuel upon liberation from Buchenwald
- Primo Levi's "The Grey Zone" now a film (Sept 2001)
- Primo Levi's "The Grey Zone" as film, per New York Times (Jan 2001)
- "Primo Levi's Last Moments," by Diego Gambetta (from the Boston Review)
"Life is Beautiful": Reception, Allegory and Holocaust Laughter, by Maurizio Viano
Cynthia Ozick, "Life Isn't Beautiful" (2010) - a comment on (among other things) "Life Is Beautiful" and "Schindler's List"
Deborah Lipstadt's blog on holocaust denial and related topics
Lithuanian Jewish heritage in danger (Thu, 28 Nov 1996)
Louisiana Holocaust Survivors' home page

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.
Pier Marton, Say I'm a Jew
Janet Maslin on Leni Riefenstahl
Rochella Velt Meekcoms - do you like yourself?
Rochella's testimony is used in Steve Reich's "Different Trains"
Sociologist probes people's motives for supporting the Nazi Party - by Ellen K. Coughlin from the Chronicle of Higher Education
Munk family: A History of the Munks' Family Departure from Prague in 1938-1939

NASA's Nazis by Linda Hunt
National Socialism "primer" - warning: hateful stuff.
Michel Fingerhut's "Documentary Resources on the Nazi Genocide and Its Negation" (in French and English)
Nazi manipulation of language - a scholarly essay highlighted in De Proverbio, an Electronic Journal of International Proverb Studies (University of Tasmania, Australia)
neo-Nazis: The Believer, a film about a Jewish teenager who joins skinhead friends and desecrates a synagogue
"Neo-Nazis Now Network on Line and Underground", by ALAN COWELL (New York Times, Oct. 22, 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).
Sanford Marcus, "The Next Holocaust"
The Nizkor Project announces its Holocaust web crawler, which maintains up-to-date indexes for over thirty Holocaust-related sites.
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.
non-Jewish victims
Nixon urged audits of Jewish contributors (Dec. 1996)
Nuremberg Trials: Telford Taylor, deputy prosecutor

60 Year Anniversary of the Anti-Nazi Olympics (August 1996)
Operation Reinhard
Cynthia Ozick, "Life Isn't Beautiful" (2010) - a comment on (among other things) "Life Is Beautiful" and "Schindler's List"

painter: Moshe Rynecki

why teach the Holocaust?

Holocaust Teaching Resource Center (TRC), sponsored by the HOLOCAUST EDUCATION FOUNDATION, INC., Newport News, VA, directed by Mark Nataupsky

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).
Sonia Pilcer, The Holocaust Kid - stories
John Felstiner, "Poetry in the Face of the Holocaust: Celan, Stuzkever, and Others"
Are Poles treated fairly today? - a brief exchange (August 1996)
Norman Podhoretz - review of his memoir
Poland: non-Jewish victims in (among other places) Poland
Pope visits Poland and talks about the Christianizing of the Holocaust (New York Times, June 1999)
Thoughts on the role of Jewish police - by Alexander Kimel
Prague: A History of the Munks' Family Departure from Prague in 1938-1939
De Proverbio - An Electronic Journal of International Proverb Studies: This University of Tasmania, Australia site highlights a scholarly essay focusing on Nazi manipulation of language.

"Rational Fascists?" Sociologist Ellen K. Coughlin probes peoples' motives for supporting the Nazi Party
Ravensbrück Monument

Julia A Terwilliger, on the Ravensbrüuck Monument

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.
Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust: A Model for a Caring Community, by Eve Fogelman
Steve Reich, "Different Trains" (1988)
Review of film about Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl dies, September 2003
Janet Maslin on Leni Riefenstahl
Stephan Ross - always irons in the fire
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.
Moshe Rynecki

To Save a Life: Stories of Jewish Rescue -- 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.
Schindler a Hero but not Righteous
- "Schindler Jews" per Mark Sherman, 1994
- Emilie Schindler dies (October 2001)
- Emilie Schindler web site
- Village Voice symposium on Schindler's List (commentary and link to PDF)
- Schindler's List airing on TV criticized by Republican congressman (March 1997)
- Herbert Steinhouse's "The Real Oskar Schindler"
- Cynthia Ozick, "Life Isn't Beautiful" (2010) - a comment on (among other things) "Life Is Beautiful" and "Schindler's List"
Irena Sendler, saviour of children in the Warsaw ghetto
service: video about the first Jewish service conducted in Germany, in 1944, since the beginning of the war
Shoah bibliography
Shoah scene list
Shoah: four video clips from the film
Shoah plays in New York again in 2010, a review
Skeptic Magazine: This magazine debunks numerous bizarre theories including those of Holocaust deniers. Contains interesting, amusing, and biting rebuttal of Holocaust deniers' claims.
Susan Sontag's "Fascinating Fascism"
"The Spectacular State: Fascism and the Modern Imagination"
Twilight Zone Was Albert Speer a Repentant Nazi or a man in denial? Review of Gitta Speery's Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth. (John Elson, Time Magazine, October 30, 1995)
Steven Spielberg faces the Holocaust – article by Bernard Weinraub (New York Times, 1993)
Learning the Holocaust through stamps
SS veterans are receiving German pensions in U.S. (December 20, 1996)
Bonn data laws prevent release of Waffen SS names (Dec. 1996)
Battle of Stalingrad: fifty years later Germans attempt to mourn the dead (The New Yorker, February 1, 1993)
article aboul Paul Steinberg's memoir of Auschwitz and Primo Levi
Bibliography of Survivor Memoirs - as of Oct. 1994
- Number of survivors alive today (as of 1996)
"Hitler's Swiss Connection, vvv" by David Lee Preston (Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. 5, 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
"54,000 Swiss Accounts Tied to the Nazis' War Victims" (12/7/99)

Telford Taylor, deputy prosecutor at Nuremberg Trials
Holocaust Teaching Resource Center (TRC), sponsored by the HOLOCAUST EDUCATION FOUNDATION, INC., Newport News, VA, directed by Mark Nataupsky
teaching: why teach about the Holocaust?
Susan May Tell's photographs of Auschwitz
Philadelphia Orchestra performs music composed at Terezin (Fall 1994)
TESTIMONIES
- survivor speaks to students at Christian academy
- Voices of the Holocaust: David Boder's 90 hours of first-hand gathered in refugee camps
- see "F" for Fortunoff Collection of Video Holocaust Testimony at Yale
- Yale testimonies on YouTube
- BBC archive, "Witnessing the Holocaust: personal accounts of a crime against humanity
- A survivor father's story finally told on his deathbed
- The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies: A collection of over 3,500 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust, part of Manuscripts and Archives at Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University.
  - Lawrence Langer on Yale's video archive of Holocaust testimonies (1996)
  - Geoffrey Hartman on the Yale archive
  - See also "Hartman, Geoffrey"
- Excerpts from Karski's account of the Warsaw Ghetto
- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - an account by Marek Edelman (1945)
- A survivor speaks about academic approaches to the Holocaust (December 1995)
- Savior of children in the Warsaw ghetto: see "Sendler, Irena"
- Excerpts from Survivor Testimonies - The Postwar Experience
- 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.
Paul Touvier, French war criminal, obituary (New York Times, July 18, 1996)

University of Vienna Medical Faculty dismisses claims that a Nazi-era anatomy textbook was researched using Holocaust victims (November 29, 1996)
annotated videography on the Holocaust and related subjects (provided by the Teaching Resource Center)
New evidence of Vichy's anti-semitic enthusiasm (October 1996)

Wansee Conference: English translation of minutes
Warsaw Ghetto: Excerpts from Karski's account of the Warsaw Ghetto
- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - an account by Marek Edelman (1945)
- Warsaw uprising 1944
web sites - "hot" Holocaust web sites
Dorit Whiteman, herself an escapee from Nazi-occupied Vienna, Austria, tells survival stories of escapees from Hitler and Stalin
Simon Wiesenthal Center
Wiesenthal, Simon - his testimony
George Will on "Exploiting the Holocaust, intellectually" (2002)
witness: see "bearing witness" and "testimony"
"Witnessing the Holocaust - BBC archive of personal accounts of a crime against humanity
Women and the Holocaust: A Cyberspace of Their Own
Writing the Holocaust - a blog

Yad Vashem no longer on official itinerary for visiting dignitaries (New York Times, January 14, 1996)
Yale archive of holocaust video testimony on YouTube