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LINKS
Below are links to websites offering further information about the Holocaust and the subject of rescue.
America and the Holocaust
This website is based on the PBS documentary, "America and the Holocaust," a part of the "The American Experience" series. The film is about America's controversial involvement in World War II and the Holocaust. The site offers primary source documents, a program description, transcripts of the film narration, a teacher's guide, and links on the subject.
American Red Cross Holocaust and World War II Tracing Program
This website offers information about the American Red Cross Holocaust and World War II Tracing Program that locates and reunites victims of World War II and the Nazi regime.
Anne Frank House
This website offers information about Anne Frank, the house in which she hid, and the diary she kept while in hiding. Included are reactions to the diary from her father, Otto Frank.
Anne Frank Online
This website is sponsored by the Anne Frank Center USA. The site offers information about Anne Frank as a young girl and on the Center. Education materials and resources will be available.
Association of Holocaust Organizations
This website provides information on the AHO, a network of Holocaust organizations throughout the U.S. and the world. The site includes a list of member organizations and links to their websites.
The Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation
This website contains information on the Center and a brief history of the Chevra Lomdei Mishnayot Beit Midrash (the former synagogue in which the Center is housed) and the city of Oswiecim itself. The site also has many useful links and information on travel to Krakow and Oswiecim, Poland.
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: The Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials website gives the visitor access to vital documents relating to the Nuremberg Trials. The site includes the presentation of the cases, testimony of witnesses, and documents of the post war military government.
Business and the Holocaust
Business and the Holocaust from Stock Maven provides information leading up to the Holocaust showing major ties between corporations and the Nazis with articles, book excerpts, historical and recent news media reports, war crimes trial transcripts, government and organization resources.
The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota
This website provides a "virtual museum" of Holocaust and Genocide Art as well as information on histories, narratives, documents, educational resources, links, and a bibliography.
Chambon Foundation
The Chambon Foundation and its website are committed to exploring and sharing the story of the people of Le Chambon, France, who saved 5,000 Jews during the Holocaust. This website provides information about the Foundation and the documentaries in the Foundation's archives.
Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
This website discusses the rescue of the Danish Jews and includes a copy of the Pastoral Letter from the Danish bishops.
Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site
This website discusses the history of the Dachau concentration camp from its establishment to liberation.
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
This website offers information about the archive at Yale University that has a collection of over 3,800 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust. Also included is a catalog and research guide to the archive and a list of edited video programs available for loan to schools and community groups.
Galicia Jewish Museum
The Galicia Jewish Museum's website includes information about exhibitions, events, and educational programs at the museum, which is located in Krakow, Poland. The main exhibition relates the history of Jewish culture and civilization in Poland through contemporary photographs.
Ghetto Fighters' House: Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum
The Ghetto Fighters' House: Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum's website contains information about the museum located in Western Galilee, Israel. Along with information about the museum, there is also access to the library, archives and the Museum's education program.
The Holocaust Chronicle
This website contains the entire copy and a generous selection of images from the companion book of the same name.
House of the Wannsee Conference
This website discusses the Wannsee Conference and contains documents from it.
Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
This website tells the story of Jewish partisans who fought back against the Nazis. It contains video-based interviews with Jewish partisans, study guides, and other educational materials.
Justiz und NS-Verbrechen / Nazi Crimes on Trial
This site presents a survey of the more than 900 Nazi trial cases conducted in West Germany since 1945, as well as the more than 900 Nazi trial cases conducted in East Germany since 1945, including the so-called Rehabilitation trials. The site contains a brief description of the subject matter of each of these cases.
The Mechelen Museum of Deportation and the Resistance
The Mechelen Museum of Deportation and the Resistance website offers information about the Shoah Museum in Belgium. This site contains information about the Museum as well as information about other organizations dedicated to the Jewish Martyrs and Deportees of Belgium. A section on Righteous Gentiles is also included.
The Righteous Gentiles from PBS's Frontline Program: Shtetl
This website is devoted to those non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. The site includes five oral histories, biographies, and photographs of rescuers. Also included is information on Polish-Jewish relations during the Holocaust, information on the Treblinka concentration camp, and classroom activities for teachers.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center
This website offers information on the Center's Museum of Tolerance located in Los Angeles. Information about Simon Wiesenthal and the Center's education program is also included.
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
This is the website of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, founded by Steven Spielberg. The Shoah Foundation is dedicated to interviewing and archiving the testimonies of survivors, rescuers, and liberators of the Holocaust.
Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research
This website provides information on the activities of the Task Force.
The Topography of Terror Foundation
This site offers an overview of memorial museums for the victims of the Nazi regime located in Germany.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's website provides information about the Museum's exhibits activities. Included on the site is a historical overview of the Holocaust, educational information, an annotated videography, a photo archive, and a comprehensive listing of Holocaust organizations associated with the museum.
Varian Fry
This site provides extensive information on Varian Fry, an American who helped save thousands of refugees in France during the Holocaust. He was the first American to be recognized by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Gentile.
Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem's website, sponsored by the Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem, Israel, offers information about events at Yad Vashem and how one can access information from the museum's photo and film archives. Information is also provided about Yad Vashem's Holocaust education program for school children.
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