The Holocaust
Books:
Relating to Haven and the
Fort Ontario Refugee Camp in Oswego, NY
Good Night Maman by Norma Fox Mazer. YA PBK
Haven
by Ruth Gruber. 940.531 GRU
Four Girls from Berlin: a True Story of a Friendship That Defied the Holocaust by Marianne Meyerhoff. YA 940.531 MEY
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti. J 943.086 BAR
Hidden Teens, Hidden Lives: Primary Sources from the Holocaust by Linda Jacobs Altman. YA 940.531 ALT
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli. YA FIC SPI
No Pretty Pictures by Anita Lobel. YA 940.531 LOB
Once by Morris Gleitzman. YA FIC GLE
Rutka's Notebook: a Voice from the Holocaust by Rutka Laskier. YA 940.531 LAS
The Diary of Petr Ginz by Petr Ginz. 940.531 GIN
The Entertainer and the Dybbuk by Sid Fleischman *
The Key is Lost by Ida Vos*
* Available through InterLibrary Loan
Movies:
Forgiving Dr. Mengele DVD 940.531 FOR
Paper
Clips - DVD 940.531 PAP
The
Boy in the Striped Pajamas DVD DRAMA BOY
The Nazi Officer's Wife DVD 940.531 NAZ
Web Sites:
- Avalon
Project: Nuremburg War Crimes Trials is maintained by the Law School at
Yale and provides links to the full text of legal documents related to the
trials.
- The
Beast Within
is a cross-disciplinary lesson plan for studying the Holocaust. Although
specifically developed to complement a trip to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum,
it is still quite useful to those not planning a physical trip to the museum.
- Cybrary
of the Holocaust is a comprehensive resource making available photos and
primary documents from liberators, survivors, and war criminals.
- Fortunoff
Video Archives site provides online excerpts of videotaped (as well as
audio and text) testimonies of survivors of concentration camps. The library
also has tapes available to loan to community groups for educational use.
- Four
Seasons Lodge Documentary is
a film project documenting a group of Holocaust survivors who come together
for their last summer at a retreat in the Catskills.
- Holocaust
and Genocide Studies is maintained by a professor at Webster University.
It includes a chronology of the Holocaust and recommended readings on the
Holocaust. It features links to information on genocide and rights violations
in other countries such as Bosnia, East Timor, and Rwanda.
- Holocaust
Denial: An Online Guide is provided by the Anti-Defamation League and
highlights the biggest deniers, their background and methods. Also on the
site are rebuttals from historians.
- Jewish
Virtual Library's The Holocaust
- The
Nizkor Project is
more comprehensive than the Anti-Defamation League's site and has links to
the full text of relevant magazine articles as well as the full text of the
transcripts of the trials at Nuremburg.
- The
Nuremberg Project provides selections from the papers of General William
J. Donovan, special assistant to the US Chief Prosecutor for the Nuremberg
Trials.
- Simon
Wiesenthal Center: The Museum of Tolerance Mutimedia Learning Center Online
features many resources including online books, images from the Wiesenthal's
Center, and bibliographies for different age levels.
- Teacher's
Guide to the Holocaust maintained by the Florida Center for Instructional
Technology provides an "overview of the people and events of the Holocaust
through photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and literature."
- United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Yad
Vashem is the official site of Israel's memorial to the Holocaust.
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