Resource Guide:
History of the Holocaust
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
- Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Holocaust Survivors
- The International Military Tribunal for Germany
- The Holocaust Chronicle (entire book)
- The Kindertransport Association
- Jewish Virtual Library The Holocaust
- Institute for Historical Review
- USC Shoah Foundation Institute
- Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Virginia Holocaust Museum primary sources
- Shoah primary documents
- German Propaganda Archive
- Wiener Library
- The Jews in Poland: Official Reports of the American and British Investigating Missions
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- World War 1939-1945 – Jews
- Antisemitism
- Concentration Camps –Germany
- Treblinka (Concentration Camp)
- Hydrocyanic acid gas
- Holocaust Survivors
- Holocaust Denial
- Eugenics Germany
- Einsatzgruppen Trial, Nuremberg, 1947-1948
- Operation Reinhard, Poland, 1942-1943
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
- Jewish children in the Holocaust
- Jewish Literature and Culture
- Pogrom — Russia
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual
- Dimensions: A Journal of Holocaust Study
- World War II
- Jewish History
- Jewish Social Studies
- Jewish Quarterly Review
- Shofar
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work | Credo Reference |
| Inside the gas chambers : eight months in the Sonderkommando… | D 805.5 .B57 V4613 2009 |
| Advocate for the doomed | E 748 .M1475 .A3 2007 |
| Remembering and imagining the Holocaust : the chain of memory | PN 56 .H55 B54 2006 |
| Hitler’s bounty hunters : the betrayal of the Jews | D 802 .N4 L5413 2005 |
| Ponary diary, 1941-1943 : a bystander’s account of a mass murder | DS 135 .L52 V5569 2005 |
| The historiography of the Holocaust | D 804.348 .H57 2004 |
| Children writing the Holocaust | PN 56 .H55 V53 2004 |
| After-words : post-Holocaust struggles with forgiveness… | D 894 .A38 2004 |
| Literature of the Holocaust | PN 56 .L575 2003 |
| War & genocide : a concise history of the Holocaust | DD 256.5 .B3916 2002 |
| Architects of annihilation : Auschwitz and the logic of destruction | D 804.3 .A44 2002 |
| Hitler’s willing executioners : ordinary Germans and the Holocaust | D 804.3 .G648 1996 |
| Denying the Holocaust : the growing assault on truth and memory | D 804 .L669 1994 |
| Children and play in the Holocaust : games among the shadows | D 810 .J4 .E35 1988 |
| “The Good old days” : the Holocaust as seen by its perpetrators… | D 804.3 .S3613 1988 |
| Maus : a survivor’s tale | D 810 .J4 S643 1986 |
| Vichy France and the Jews | DS 135 .F83 M38 1981 |
| The destruction of the European Jews | D 804.3 .H548 v.1-3 |
| Shoah : an oral history of the Holocaust | DVD D 810 Shoah |
| The myth of rescue why the democracies could not have saved more Jews | e-Book |
| Roots of hate anti-semitism in Europe before the Holocaust | e-Book |
| The business of genocide: the SS, slave labor, and the concentration… | e-Book |
| Were we our brothers’ keepers? the public response of American Jews… | e-Book |