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HOLOCAUST |
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HOLOCAUST GLOSSARY: TERMS, PLACES AND PERSONALITIES This site may be helpful for finding out who a certain person was or what some of the unfamiliar words mean. If there is a word or a name which you do not understand or know about, simply use this page to provide a very short explanation of that word or to explain who the person was and why he or she was important at this time.
GENERAL SITES
These sites will be helpful for most of the topics
which the students might be researching. It may be necessary to follow some of the links
through more than one level in order to locate the desired information. Read the
descriptions of the sites and look over a page completely before deciding that this site
is not going to be useful. Sometimes the links at the bottom of the page (to other sites)
will be the place which has the information you seek.
HOLOCAUST ENCYCLOPEDIA - The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's online encyclopedia containing articles, film, photographs, individual histories, and survival testimony.
MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS OF THE HOLOCAUST AND NAZI MEDICINE
THE HOLOCAUST: A LEARNING SITE FOR STUDENTS - This site uses text, historical photos, maps, images of artifacts, and audio clips to provide an overview of the Holocaust. It features information about Nazi rule, Jews in Germany, the "Final Solution," Nazi camps, and rescue and resistance.
HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS - An excellent educational resource abut the Nazi Holocaust of Jews in World War II. It includes interviews, photographs and audio.
THE HOLOCAUST (JSOURCE) - This site has a tremendous amount of information on many of the topics for this project, especially some of the more obscure ones. This is one of the sites, however, at which you will have to look carefully for more links since the information available in this site is not always obvious from the initial list.
CYBRARY OF THE HOLOCAUST - This site is good, but you may have to use the site's search engine to find some of the links. This one has very good camp histories and links to the heroes and the rescuers of the Holocaust (Schindler, e.g.).
C.A.N.D.L.E.S HOLOCAUST MUSEUM - This site is not able to be bookmarked at the best frame. Therefore, when the site is on the screen, click on the line to the left which says "Learn about the Holocaust". It will bring up another frame with choices such as THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS, ADOLF HITLER and JOSEF MENGELE.
THE HISTORY PLACE - This site has biographies of Nazi leaders such as Hitler, Adolf Eichmann, and Rudolf Hess. Soon it may also have information on Hitler Youth. This site also has a World War II timeline and a Holocaust timeline which provide a large number of excellent links. If a date is not known, however, then you should skim the list and look for the "blue" words which indicate that there is a link to another site about that word. If you wish to go directly to the timeline, then just use this link instead. (Holocaust Timeline)
HOLOCAUST
- This insightful site
has many helpful pages. The following are some of the most important parts
of this site.
Schindler link
leads to a page on Oskar Schindler
Holocaust link
leads to pages on People like Anne Frank and Raoul Wallenberg, the resistence
and the Death Camps
Bios -
biographies of the well known nazis such as Hitler, Mengele and Eichmann, etc.
Links - leads to
the Shoah Links - a huge listing of other sites on the Holocaust
THE HOLOCAUST: AN HISTORICAL SUMMARY - This site is basically just an overview of the entire holocaust, but as such it can be helpful to fit all of the pieces together and to place the topics into their proper perspective.
36 QUESTIONS ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST
This site is just questions with their
answers, but it is very informative.
POLAND: THE HISTORICAL SETTING - This site is an excerpt from "The Path of the Righteous: Gentile rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust" published in 1993 and it provides a great deal of information about what was going on in Poland at that time.
SPECIALIZED SITES
The following sites are more specialized and some of them
are on topics which have proven to be difficult to research.
CONCENTRATION CAMPS
An Auschwitz
Alphabet - An extremely detailed account of life at this infamous camp
PEOPLE OF THE HOLOCAUST
Eichmann
Timeline
Adolf Hitler - The Rise of Adolf Hitler - This site details the life of Hitler from his childhood years to becoming dictator of Germany
Anne Frank : her life and times
- At this time there is only information under Anne's Story
and The Diary; later there should also be information under The Holocaust and The Annex
Anne Frank Homepage
- This site has pictures of the house and the hiding place as well as
pictures of those who helped Anne and her family
Anne Frank Web Guide - The Guide is a joint project between the Anne Frank House, in Amsterdam, and Berlin's Anne Frank Center. It details Anne Frank's experience, as told through her diary and family artifacts.
Oskar Schindler
(JSOURCE)
The Story of Oscar Schindler - A
larger site about Oskar Schindler, but a
great deal of it is photographs, not more text
Miep
Gies - Outside the Annex
Miep
Gies - - parts of her book
Anne Frank Remembered
The
Story of Miep Gies - This
Scholastic site has much of the story of Miep Gies and also a link to an
interview she had with students
Simon Wiesenthal - An interesting site with a link to his biography and one to some of his quotes
Bolivia Web: Klaus Barbie
- A short biography of the man who was known
as "The butcher of Lyon"
The Hunt for Klaus Barbie
- This site has a bit more extensive biography of this man and the
hunt for him
SPECIFIC TOPICS OF THE HOLOCAUST
Hitler's
Youth Movement - excerpts
from the Diary of a Hitler Youth
Hitler
Youth Naval Branch and The League of German Girls - This is the
historical background for the memorabilia of the Third Reich which is for sale
to collectors
Hitler's
Women and Youth - This
appears to be a college research paper on the subject of Hitler's thoughts about
women and his youth movement
An End to Intolerance: The White Rose - The story of the students and their fight for justice
A Look Back at Nuremberg - A history of the Nuremberg Trials, which began in October 1945. The site includes an introduction to the indictments and defendants, the creation of the tribunal, and selected transcripts from the trials.
Zyklon B (JSOURCE)
- Some very detailed and specific information
which is meant to refute those who say that Zyklon B could not have been used
in the gas chambers to exterminate humans
The Jewish
Foundation for the Righteous - This site contains stories of gentiles who put their own lives at
risk to help the Jewish people
Righteous Gentiles
- This site tells more
stories of those Gentiles who risked everything to help the Jews
The Final Solution
- This site explains
Hitler's plans for the extermination of the Jews
D-Day
- This
page is the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Operation Overlord (D-Day)