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The history of the Holocaust: the systematic attempted destruction of the European Jews by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Over ten million innocents, including about six million Jews, perished at the hands of the Nazis.

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• America and the Holocaust

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/
  Examines the complex social and political factors that led the American government to ignore the Jewish victims of the Holocaust until 1944.

• Angels Of Death - The Nazi Doctors

  http://www.shoah.dk/doctors/
  Biographies, including survivor testimonies and graphic photos.

• Antisemitism - Its History and Causes

  http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/jewish/lazare-anti.asp
  The writing by Bernard Lazare trying to understand a phenomenon of hatred, not the work of a self-hating Jew.

• Auschwitz Survivor Tells of Vain Uprising

  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jan/28/germany.secondworldwar1
  News article as told by a survivor.

• Courage And Survival - The Holocaust

  http://www.shoah.dk/Courage/
  Brief biographies and stories of the victims, survivors, and rescuers.

• David Irving's Hitler - A Faulty History Dissected

  http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/i/irving-david/jackel/
  A book containing two essays by Eberhard Jäckel: Innocence of Hitler and Irving, Hitler, and the Murder of the Jews.

• Foundation Chambon

  http://www.chambon.org/index_en.htm
  To explore and communicate necessary and challenging lessons of hope intertwined with the Holocaust's unavoidable lessons of despair.

• Gray Matter

  http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/16457/gray-matter/
  A movie of a leading Austrian forensic psychiatrist who's alleged to have murdered hundreds of children during the holocaust and used their brains for experiments.

• Guardian Unlimited Special Report - Focus: The Holocaust

  http://www.theguardian.com/secondworldwar/holocaust/0,15699,1388901,00.html
  Comment and analysis about the historical event and its commemoration. Includes profiles, audio clips, firsthand survivor stories and archived news reports from the 1930's and 1940's.

• Hermann Friedrich Graebe - Account of Holocaust Mass Shooting

  http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1942graebe.asp
  An eyewitness account which suggests the well-­organized procedure for mass shooting that the elite Schutzstaffel (SS) soldiers had developed by 1942.

• Himmler's Speech at Posen

  http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-posen.htm
  Speech by the SS leader in which he speaks openly about the Holocaust with audio..

• Holocaust

  http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blholocaust.htm
  Articles, email newsletter, online discussion and links.

• Holocaust

  http://holocaust.klup.info/
  Extensive database on World War II persons and Jewish victims in the Netherlands with articles, links and polls.

• Holocaust

  http://lightfromjews.narod.ru/holocaust.htm
  Links to resources.

• Holocaust Links

  http://web.macam98.ac.il/~ochayo/linke.htm
  Directory of websites providing information, literature, lesson plans, organizations, memorabilia, resistance, and other topics related to the Nazi genocide.

• Holocaust Memorial Center

  http://www.holocaustcenter.org/
  Documents the horror of the period and the rich culture and history that was lost.

• Holocaust Memorial Day

  http://www.grandlodgescotland.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=43&Itemid=103
  Dedication to the memory of thousands of Freemasons who died during the Holocaust.

• Holocaust Photo Project

  http://www.dimandr.com/holindex.html
  Includes pictures and information from tour of Maidanek, Treblinka and Aushwitz.

• Holocaust Pictures and Stories

  http://holocaustforgotten.com/
  Focuses on non-Jewish and Polish victims of the Holocaust: photos and survivor stories.

• Holocaust Rescue Efforts of Rabbi Chaim Michael Dov

  http://www.weissmandl.org/
  Describes effort to purchase the freedom of some Jews from Nazi Germany, an effort that failed because the money was not raised in time.

• Holocaust Rescuers Bibliography

  http://www.hearthasreasons.com/bibliography.php
  An extensive partially-annotated listing of books about Holocaust rescuers with links to more information.

• Holocaust Studies

  http://www.aish.com/ho/
  An introduction and related issues.

• Holocaust Survivors' Network

  http://isurvived.org/
  A tribute to survivors of the Nazi Holocaust.

• Holocaust Timeline

  http://members.shaw.ca/timelines/
  A Timeline of the Holocaust (1919-1946).

• Holocaust/Shoah

  http://ddickerson.igc.org/holocaust.html
  Categories of links and resources.

• Humor as a Defense Mechanism in the Holocaust

  http://web.macam98.ac.il/~ochayo/absract.html
  An investigation by Chaya Ostrower for her PhD on the types and functions of humor used by Jews during the Holocaust.

• Jaslo

  http://home.earthlink.net/~jackherzig/jaslo
  The birth and death of a Jewish community in Poland from its beginnings to the Holocaust as written by Dr. Jakub Herzig.

• Jewish Slaves Furbish Nazi Dress

  http://www.jewishmag.co.il/90mag/nazichic/nazichic.htm
  An article of fashioning German women in the Third Reich by Dr. Irene Guenther.

• Jewish Virtual Library - The Holocaust

  http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/holo.html
  An online encyclopedia covering anti-Semitism to Zionism.

• Justice Matters - Legacies of the Holocaust and WWII

  http://www.weissmark.com/
  Book review with biographical information, a dedication, pictures and excerpts, and images.

• Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Walpersberg

  http://www.walpersberg.de/
  A meeting point for survivors and relatives of the former underground aircraft factory called REIMAHG (Flugzeugwerke Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring) near Kahla, including news, history, visitor information, and projects.

• March of Remembrance and Hope

  http://remembranceandhope.freeservers.com/
  Student's account of visiting Holocaust sites as part of this event. Includes history and photographs.

• Natanson Memorial

  http://pagesperso-orange.fr/d-d.natanson/english_en_memoire.htm
  A simple but moving Holocaust memorial page.

• Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

  http://www.historyplace.com/pointsofview/goldhagen.htm
  Excerpted from the book Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.

• Recollection from the Shoah

  http://www.jewishmag.co.il/90mag/breakingsilience/breakingsilience.htm
  An article By Michael W. Klein.

• Recovered Memories and the Holocaust

  http://www.stopbadtherapy.com/experts/fragments/fragments.shtml
  An essay by Mark Pendergrast.

• Remember

  http://www.remember.org/
  Forum for survivors and their descendants, to promote remembrance.

• Rescuers - Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust

  http://www.holocaustrescuers.com/
  Interviews with and portraits of people who rescued, including maps, historic images, and essays on courage and altruism.

• Resistance

  http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/resisttoc.html
  Overview of several areas of resistance activities to Nazism and the Holocaust, in Eastern Europe and by Jews in the concentration camps as well as in Germany.

• Rosa Robota and the Holocaust Resistance

  http://www.jewishmag.co.il/90mag/rosarobata/rosarobata.htm
  An article By Allan E. Mallenbaum.

• Schindler Stories

  http://www.shoah.dk/Schindler/Default.htm
  His and others's stories, and their experiences with the German rescuer.

• Schindler Survivors

  http://www.auschwitz.dk/Panzuck/
  Includes biographies and images of several individuals whom Oscar Schindler rescued from the Holocaust.

• Shoah - Twentieth Century Genocide

  http://www.shoah.freeservers.com/
  A look at Hitler's rise to power and at the holocaust he created.

• Simon Wiesenthal Center

  http://www.wiesenthal.com/
  Museum focusing on racism in America and the history of the Holocaust.

• Sisters of the Shoah

  http://www.jewishmag.co.il/90mag/shoahsisters/shoahsisters.htm
  Three survivor tales, three golden fates, and three iron wills.

• Storojinet Jews Memorial Web Page

  http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/storojinet/
  The story of the old Jewish village and the Riegler family during the war with pictures from the modern city.

• The Assassins of Memory - Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust

  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/metabook/assassins.html
  A book consisting of five essays by Pierre Vidal-Naquet.

• The Beth Shalom Holocaust Web Centre

  http://www.bethshalom.com/
  Collection of related sites, including a web-based introduction for school pupils.

• The Bible Foretold the Holocaust

  http://www.bibleforetoldholocaust.com/
  Holy Scriptures foretold the circumstances and some of the details of the Holocaust.

• The Center for Holocaust Humanity Education

  http://www.holocaustandhumanity.org/
  Part of Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion. Dedicated to education, teacher and clergy training, advocacy, and research relating the lessons of the Holocaust to issues and challenges facing humankind today.

• The Children Of Izieu

  http://www.izieu.com/
  The story of the Jewish children at the orphanage known as La Maison d'Izieu that includes information on the children, Nazi biographies, SS testimonies, galleries, poetry, books, and links.

• The Children Who Cheated the Nazis

  http://www.childrenwhocheatedthenazis.co.uk/
  Site of a BBC documentary about the Kindertransport, including history, images, and music lyrics.

• The History Place - Holocaust Timeline

  http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html
  Informational events from 1933 through 1945.

• The Holocaust - Crimes, Heroes, and Villains

  http://www.auschwitz.dk/
  Stories of Auschwitz and biographies of the major names of the time.

• The Holocaust Chronicle

  http://www.holocaustchronicle.org/
  Companion site to the not-for-profit book.

• The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials

  http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/imt.asp
  Supporting documents.

• The Second Generation Group from Nuremberg

  http://www.infotrue.com/nuremberg.html
  Children of survivors from the Jewish Holocaust provide archives, photos and history resources.

• The Trial of Adolf Eichmann

  http://www.remember.org/eichmann/
  Trial documents, biographies, photos, resources, and a study guide to accompany the television program.

• The Wannsee Conference

  http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-wannsee.htm
  A meeting in Berlin with 15 top Nazi bureaucrats to coordinate the Final Solution (Endlösung) in which the Nazis would attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe.

• When You Were in Auschwitz

  http://www.jewishmag.co.il/90mag/feeling/feeling.htm
  An article By Liliana Sharett.

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