BC3 Library: The Holocaust : Web resources

TED Talk: How the magic of kindness helped me survive the Holocaust

General Websites on the Holocaust

American Jewish Archives
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, founded in 1947, is committed to preserving a documentary heritage of the religious, organizational, economic, cultural, personal, social and family life of American Jewry.
The German Resistance Memorial Center
The German Resistance Memorial Center's goal is to show how individual persons and groups took action against the National Socialist dictatorship (Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party) from 1933 to 1945 and made use of what freedom of action they had. Also included are biographies of German persons who stood up against the Nazis, many of whom lost their lives as a result.
The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh
The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh connects the horrors of the Holocaust and antisemitism with injustices of today. Through education, the Holocaust Center seeks to address these injustices and empower individuals to build a more civil and humane society.
Information Portal to European Sites of Holocaust Remembrance
A selection of links to memorials and museums that commemorate Holocaust victims. A map aids in the identification of locations throughout Europe. Includes images and histories.
Museum of Jewish Heritage YouTube Channel
The Museum educates people of all ages and backgrounds about the broad tapestry of Jewish life in the 20th and 21st centuries—before, during, and after the Holocaust.
Musmanno Collection-Interrogations of Adolf Hitler Associates
The collection contains information gathered from personal interviews with Hitler's secretaries, his dentist, many of the top Reich generals, and other persons who knew of or about Hitler.
Virtual Tour of Auschwitz Memorial
The Virtual Tour of the Auschwitz Memorial includes over 200 high-quality panoramic photographs. The 360⁰ images present the authentic sites and buildings of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp, complete with historical descriptions, dozens of witness accounts, archival documents and photographs, artworks created by the prisoners, and objects related to the history of the camp

Rare Color Footage Depicting Jewish Life in the Shtetl Before the Holocaust

A shtetl is a small village or town with a predominantly Jewish population that existed before World War II in Central and Eastern Europe. Most shtetls were completely destroyed during the Holocaust, their populations erased from history.

That's why a video like this is so exceptionally rare.

Check out the following link for more information about this particular shtetl and some of the people in the footage:

https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/through-the-lens/teitelbaum-film.asp

Exploring Nazi-Looted Art and Gustav Klimt’s famous painting "Woman in Gold"

Top litigator Randol Schoenberg has accomplished what few thought possible. After a seven-year struggle with the Austrian government, he recovered Gustav Klimt’s famous “Golden Lady” painting and other Klimt artworks stolen by the Nazis from the Altmann family home in Austria in 1938. Schoenberg’s experiences are the subject of the movie "Woman in Gold," starring Ryan Reynolds and Helen Mirren which he explored in this 2020 program.

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The Anne Frank House
The Anne Frank House is a writer's house and biographical museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank. The building is located on a canal called the Prinsengracht, close to the Westerkerk, in central Amsterdam in the Netherlands
Holocaust Encyclopedia
This resource from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum contains more than 850 articles about the Holocaust, antisemitism, and current-day mass atrocities.
Online Courses from the Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. These online courses utilize materials from our extensive archives and resources, and the latest in Holocaust research and pedagogy. They provide a unique opportunity to broaden your knowledge on the subject, with the flexibility offered by online study. The entire courses are conducted online.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Online Exhibitions
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust. Online exhibitions include topics related to the Holocaust but also on the subject of genocide.
Shtetl (full-length documentary movie)
The remarkable three-hour film tells the homecoming story of two elderly Polish-American Jews who return to their families’ shtetl, Bransk, where 2,500 Jews lived before most were sent to Treblinka’s gas chambers. These two Americans are aided in their journey by a Polish Gentile who has restored Bransk’s Jewish cemetery and researched the lives of the Jews who once lived there. The film captures these pilgrims as they face old neighbors, some who were betrayers, others who were saviors to the Jews of Bransk, a small village in northeastern Poland.
Yad Vashem-the World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, is the ultimate source for Holocaust education, documentation and research. It also features online exhibitions about the Holocaust.

The Holocaust : Web resources

TED Talk: How the magic of kindness helped me survive the Holocaust

General Websites on the Holocaust

Rare Color Footage Depicting Jewish Life in the Shtetl Before the Holocaust

Exploring Nazi-Looted Art and Gustav Klimt’s famous painting "Woman in Gold"

Open Educational Resources

TED Talk: behind the lies of Holocaust denial