Holocaust
Holocaust Encyclopedia
From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Searchable by keyword and browsable by topic.
70 Voices: Victims, Perpetrators and Bystanders
From the Holocaust Educational Trust. "The commemorative project explores the history of the Holocaust through 70 sources created by different witnesses, including victims, survivors and perpetrators. The sources include diaries, letters, testimonies and poems."
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Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933—1945
From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Two-volume text from Indiana University Press.
Databases of Digitised Documents and Victims
From the Czech Republic Holocaust Documents. "The website contains a database of digitised documents and a database of victims which can be searched by name, birth place or date and address. Information about the history of the Holocaust and the sources of the database are also available online."
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Encyclopedia of America's Response to the Holocaust
From the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies. Full text searchable encyclopedia of articles about people and events related to how the United States responded to the Shoah.
Documentation Center of North African Jewry during WWII
From Yad Yitzchak Ben Zvi. The goal of this site in English, Hebrew, French and Arabic is to "raise public awareness of the story of the Jewish Communities in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and Libya during the Holocaust. " It has a database of images, documents and videos.
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European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI)
From the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI). "The portal is part of the EHRI project and contains information on Holocaust-related material from an extensive list of archives across Europe and beyond."
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Forced Labour 1939-1945: Memory and History
From the Freie Universität Berlin, Center for Digital Systems. "Forced Labor 1939-1945" commemorates the more than twenty million people who were forced to work for Nazi Germany. Nearly 600 former forced laborers from 26 countries tell their life stories in detailed audio and video interviews."
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Gathering the Voices
From Gathering the Voices. "The website contains testimonies from refugees that escaped Nazi-dominated Europe by emigrating to Scotland."
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Holocaust Living History Workshop
From the University of California San Diego. "The video recordings represent events organized by the Holocaust Living History Workshop (HLHW). The collection includes the recordings of these events since 2012. Its content covers multiple topics of the history of the Jewish and Romani Holocaust, antisemitism, and Jewish migration mostly in the 1930’s – 1940’s in Europe and the United States."
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International Database of Oral History Testimonies
From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The website contains oral history testimonies from Jewish refugees that came to Britain during or after the Second World War.
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Joods Monument of Dutch Jews
From the Jewish Cultural Quarter. "Commemorates the more than 104.000 Jewish men, women and children who were prosecuted in the Netherlands during the second World War and did not survive the Holocaust."
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Learning: Voices of the Holocaust
From the British Library. "The website contains oral history testimonies from Jewish refugees that came to Britain during or after the Second World War. Information cards about historical background as well as other resources including maps, statistics and teachers’ pages are also available. "
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National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism
From the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism. The online collections contains 50 life stories which include photographic material and documents. Some are video testimonies or essays written by the eyewitnesses.
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Oral History: Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust
From the British Library. "These recordings are powerful personal accounts of the Holocaust from Jewish survivors living in Britain. This collection contains interviews from two oral history projects, the Living Memory of the Jewish Community (C410) and the Holocaust Survivors' Centre Interviews (C830). "
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Photographs from World War II from the JDC
From the American Joint Distribution Committee. "This selection of photo galleries reflects the extraordinary range of the Joints impact on the lives of Holocaust survivors and of Jews fleeing Nazism and the Communist takeover of Eastern Europe immediately following the war. Galleries are organized by country and location where JDC worked during and after the war."
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Refugee Scholars of the Nazi Era
From Northwestern University. From the files of over 5,000 scholars who wrote to the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Scholars for help between 1933 and 1945, we identified 80 female scientists and mathematicians. Here are short biographies of each of them.
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Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive
From the University of Southern California.
"Viewable on the VHA Online are about 3,000 testimony videos from survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides. Testimony videos not viewable in the VHA Online can be viewed onsite at many institutions around the world." |
Strochlitz Institute for Holocaust Research
From the University of Haifa. "The Institute deals with research and documentation of the Holocaust and World War II for various audiences and scholars. The Center owns a collection of personal photographs, mainly from Hungary and Romania."
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The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross
From the Art Gallery of Ontario. "A digital archive of more than 4,000 rarely seen images of life inside the Lodz Ghetto during the Second World War through the daring lens of Ross (1910-1991), a Polish Jewish photojournalist."
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The Righteous among the Nations
From Yad Vashem. Rescue stories, photos, information about the Righteous Among the Nations.
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Voices from Ravensbruck
From Lund University Sweden. A digital archive of over 500 survivors’ testimonies from a Nazi concentration camp translated into English.
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Voices of the Holocaust
From the Illinois Institute of Technology. The website features the testimonies collected by Dr. David P. Boder in 1946 during his visit to refugee camps in France, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany. He recorded 90 hours of first-hand testimony, which represent the earliest known oral histories of the Holocaust and are available through the online archive.
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World War, 1939-1945, German Concentration Camps and Prisons Collection
From McMaster University. The collection has correspondences available from these camps: Arbeitsdorf, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Dondanen, Dora, Fallersleben, Floßenürg, Groß-Rosen, Gusen, Herzogenbusch, Janowska, Jungfernhof, Kaiserwalk, Kauen, Klooga, Kurtenhof, Lemberg, Lublin, Majdanek, Mauthausen, Mittelbau, Natzweiler, Neuengamme, Niederhagen, Plaszow, Ravenbrück, Riga, Sachsenhausen, Salapils, Sangerhausen, Struthof, Stuttof, Torgau, Vaivara, Vught, Warschau, and Wewelsberg.
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World War, 1939-1945, Jewish Underground Resistance Collection
From McMaster University.
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Yad Vashem Document Archive
From Yad Vashem.
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Holocaust Oral History Collection
From Hebrew University. 10,000 interviews including key individuals involved in the Zionist movement, and other organizations such as the United Jewish Appeal, as well as with men and women who grew up under the British mandate in Palestine, under Communist regimes in Eastern Europe, or in various Jewish communities throughout the world.
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stolpersteine in Norway
From the Oslo Jewish Museum. Access to the stolpersteine or memorial cobblestones that have been put down outside the homes of Jews who died during the Holocaust.
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stolpersteine in Berlin
From Gunter Demnig. Searchable map of the stolpersteine or memorial cobblestones in Berlin with images of the stones.
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Jewish Partisans
From the Jewish Partisan Education Foundation. Images and videos from Jewish partisans that you can sort by location.
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Philatelic and Numismatic Items of the Holocaust
From the University of Minnesota. information about and reproductions of stamps and coins issued in the ghettoes and concentration camps under the Nazis.
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Map of Execution Sites During the Shoah
From Yahad – In Unum. This organization identifies mass Jewish execution sites and mass graves in the former Soviet Union. The organization collects forensic evidence and seeks out eyewitnesses to the executions of Jews and Roma to identify holocaust sites where the Nazis and their allies murdered Jews in towns and villages throughout Eastern Europe. If you select a red dot on the map you can read details about the site, including the number of witnesses interviewed and details and videos from eye witnesses.
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Centropa: Database of Jewish Memory
From Centropa. "Between 2000 and 2010, we interviewed 1,200 Jewish Holocaust survivors still living in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and the Balkans. We digitized more than 20,000 of their photographs and asked them to tell us their stories about the entire 20th century--as they lived it. "
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Refugee Family Papers
From the Wiener Library. "Explore and search the collection of refugee family papers in the Wiener Library by location. These documents have been donated to the library over the years by Jewish refugees and their families, who escaped Nazi persecution by emigrating from Germany and other Nazi-dominated countries before and during World War II."
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Rochester Holocaust Survivors Archive
From the Jewish Federatiion of Rochester. "Interviews conducted and materials gathered by the Center for Holocaust Awareness and Information (CHAI) ."
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From the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
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From Kibbutz Lochamei HaGetaot. Searchable collection in English and Hebrew of artifacts, art, audio, photos and albums. There are special sections for Holland, youth movements, the He-Chaluts movement and child survivors.
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From Shem Olam. Searchable collection in English and Hebrew of documents, exhibits, photos, films, posters, newspapers and private materials related to teaching about the Shoah from a standpoint of religion, values, morality, and humanity.
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Giznach Kiddush HaShem
Searchable collection in English and Hebrew of materials dealing with Jewish heroism and martyrdom during the Shoah related to teaching about the Shoah from a standpoint of religion, values, morality, and humanity.
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The Testimony House
From Kibbutz Nir Galim. Nir Galim was established in 1949 by Holocaust survivors, most of them from Hungary. Its archive has a searchable collection of material on the history of Religious Zionism during the Holocaust and the revival of the people of Israel. The highlight of the archive's activity is the "Vet-File" project, which is the official database of the veterans of the religious Zionist youth movements.
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Memorials to Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust
From The Center Organizations of Holocaust Survivors in Israel. Searchable database in Hebrew of monuments throughout Israel devoted to the memory of communities destroyed in the Shoah.
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The Massuah Institute for the Study of the Holocaust
From Kibbutz Tel Yitzchak. Photographs, documents, testimonial files and art and artifacts from this educational institute in Kibbutz Tel Yitzchak devoted to “evoking discourse on the significance of the Holocaust in our contemporary society and culture.”
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Card Index of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany
From the International Tracing Service. This site digitizes “What is left of the card index of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany (Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland) comprising 32,264 registration cards, primarily those of Jewish school pupils, emigrants and deceased persons.” You can search by keyword and browse by name and place.
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German Refugee Rabbis in the United States, 1933-1990
From the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen. Traces the transnational biographies, migration paths and careers of over 230 German refugee rabbis, who fled Nazi Germany after 1933.
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Oral Histories from the Holocaust
From the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center. From this museum in St. Louis, Missouri comes this collection of 144 interviews of Missouri residents who had experienced the Holocaust in some way, whether as Jewish survivors or even American soldiers. The interviews were conducted over 40 years by Vida “Sister” Prince. You can search them by a variety of parameters. Hat tip to Tara Calishain.
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Arolsen Archives
From the International Center on Nazi Persecution.
The database contains a comprehensive collection of documents from concentration camps, including prisoner cards and death notices. The more than 13 million documents featuring information on over 2.2 million people persecuted by the Nazi Regime |
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Requests from Jews for Help from the Vatican during the Shoah
From the Vatican. Digitized collection of 2700 requests made by Jews to the Vatican for help during World War II. There is an accompanying pdf that lists the names of those making the request, so you can find the appropriate file.
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Refugee Map
From The Wiener Holocaust Library.
This site includes a selection of handwritten diaries, photo albums, identity and emigration papers, Red Cross letters and recorded interviews from Jews who fled from the Nazis. The material appears on a map. |
Early Holocaust Testimony
From the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure. Early testimonies of Jewish witnesses and survivors taken before the 1960s. All documents include transcriptions in the original language as well as a translation into English. You can search the collection or browse by archive.
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Holocaust Memorial Monuments
From the Hebrew University. Part of the Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art, this database “has been created to collect and preserve digital documentation about Holocaust memorial monuments worldwide, including standardized mapping, photography, description, and historical research. It also includes a growing bibliography on Holocaust and memorial monuments.”
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Holocaust Survivor Interviews from Youngstown, Ohio
From the Youngstown Jewish Federation. Pioneered by Dr. Saul Friedman, this is a collection of 50 interviews of those who survived the Shoah browsable by name.
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