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FINIDNG SOURCES ABOUT HOLOCAUST

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Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of the Holocaust [Print Book]
Israel Gutman, editor in chief. New York: Macmillan, 1990. ISBN: 9780028960906. 4 volumnes
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Useful for background information. Covers many aspects of the Holocaust. Each article has a bibliography.
Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933-1945 [Web version]
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Incredibly detailed work of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) describing the system of concentration camps and ghettos established by the Nazi regime. Each article includes source information, as well as notes referencing archival material held by the Holocaust Museum.
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust [Web version]
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Comprehensive resource from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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Guides and Readers

The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust [eBook]
Donald Niewyk and Francis Nicosia. Columbia University Press, 2000 xii, 473 p.. ISBN: 9780231112000.
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Annotation Offering a multidimensional approach to one of the most important episodes of the twentieth century, The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust offers readers and researchers a general history of the Holocaust while delving into the core issues and debates in the study of the Holocaust today.Each of the book's five distinct parts stands on its own as valuable research aids; together, they constitute an integrated whole. Part I provides a narrative overview of the Holocaust, placing it within the larger context of Nazi Germany and World War II. Part II examines eight critical issues or controversies in the study of the Holocaust, including the following questions: Were the Jews the sole targets of Nazi genocide, or must other groups, such as homosexuals, the handicapped, Gypsies, and political dissenters, also be included? What are the historical roots of the Holocaust? How and why
The Holocaust Sites of Europe: An Historical Guide (Third edition) [Print Book]
Martin Winstone. London: Bloomsbury Academic. , 2024. 448 p.. ISBN: 9781350332027
Americans and the Holocaust : a reader [eBook]
edited by Paul R. Bartrop.. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2022. xxxii, 229 pages. ISBN: 9781978821682 ON ORDER
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"Sources for Studying the Holocaust provides a pathway for readers to engage with questions about what sources can be used to study the Holocaust. For many historians the challenge has been how to rescue the story from oblivion when oft-used sources for other periods of history introduce even more issues around authenticity and reliability. What can be learned of what transpired in villages and towns numbering several thousand people, when all its Jewish inhabitants were totally obliterated through Nazi action? Who can furnish eyewitness testimony, if all the eyewitnesses were killed? How does one examine written records preserving knowledge of facts or events, where none were kept or survived the onslaught? And what weight do we put upon such resources which did manage to endure the destruction wrought by the Holocaust? Each chapter looks at one of a diverse range of source material from which scholars have rescued the history, including survivor testimony, diaries, letters, newspaper accounts, photographs, trial documents, artefacts, digital resources, memorials, films, literature and art. Each chapter shows how different types of records can be utilized as accurate sources for the writing of Holocaust history. Collectively, they highlight the ways in which all material, even the most fragmentary, can be employed to recreate a reliable record of what happened during the Holocaust and show how all sources considered can be employed to find meaning and understanding by exploring a range of sources deeply. This book is a unique analysis of the types of sources that can be used to access the history of Holocaust. It will be of invaluable interest to readers, students and researchers of the Holocaust"-- Provided by publisher.
The Holocaust: The Essential Reference Guide [eBook]
Paul R. Bartrop and Eve E. Grimm. Santa Barbara, California: ABC Clio, 2022 363 p.. ISBN: 9781440877780
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This volume showcases a detailed look at the multifaceted attempts by Germany's Nazi regime, together with its collaborators, to annihilate the Jews of Europe during the Holocaust. Several introductory essays, along with a rich chronology, reference entries, primary documents, images, and a bibliography provide crucial information that readers will need in order to try to understand the Holocaust while undertaking research on that horrible event.

This text looks not only at the history of the Holocaust, but also at examples of resistance (through armed violence, attempts at rescue, or the very act of survival itself); literary and cultural expressions that have attempted to deal with the Holocaust; the social and psychological implications of the Holocaust for today; and how historians and others have attempted to do justice to the memory of those killed and seek insight into why the Holocaust happened in the first place..
Holocaust cinema complete : a history and analysis of 400 films, with a teaching guide [eBook]
Rich Brownstein ; forewords by Tim Blake Nelson, Walter Reich, Michael Berenbaum and Edward Jacobs, and David Zucker. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2021 viii, 480 pages. ISBN:9781476684161
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"Sources for Studying the Holocaust provides a pathway for readers to engage with questions about what sources can be used to study the Holocaust. For many historians the challenge has been how to rescue the story from oblivion when oft-used sources for other periods of history introduce even more issues around authenticity and reliability. What can be learned of what transpired in villages and towns numbering several thousand people, when all its Jewish inhabitants were totally obliterated through Nazi action? Who can furnish eyewitness testimony, if all the eyewitnesses were killed? How does one examine written records preserving knowledge of facts or events, where none were kept or survived the onslaught? And what weight do we put upon such resources which did manage to endure the destruction wrought by the Holocaust? Each chapter looks at one of a diverse range of source material from which scholars have rescued the history, including survivor testimony, diaries, letters, newspaper accounts, photographs, trial documents, artefacts, digital resources, memorials, films, literature and art. Each chapter shows how different types of records can be utilized as accurate sources for the writing of Holocaust history. Collectively, they highlight the ways in which all material, even the most fragmentary, can be employed to recreate a reliable record of what happened during the Holocaust and show how all sources considered can be employed to find meaning and understanding by exploring a range of sources deeply. This book is a unique analysis of the types of sources that can be used to access the history of Holocaust. It will be of invaluable interest to readers, students and researchers of the Holocaust"-- Provided by publisher.
A Companion to the Holocaust [eBook]
edited by Simone Gigliotti, Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell, 2020. 672 p.. ISBN: 9781118970522.
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"How we label things determines in part how we understand them. There is no name for the mass murder of European Jews in the 1940s that is not also simultaneously an interpretation. Final Solution, Holocaust, Shoah, Genocide: each of these implies a certain analysis of what happened and why. Thus the changing (and contested) names attached to the mass murder of European Jewry over the past seventy years also suggest shifts over time in how the event has been interpreted. Similarly, these names reflect a series of debates among historians about how best to analyze the destruction of Europe's Jews. Some of these debates have been more or less resolved, but many persist and seem likely to continue for the foreseeable future. It can thus hardly be the goal of this chapter to resolve these debates or to offer a definitive interpretation of the mass murder. Rather, I want to trace, in broad terms, the trajectory of Holocaust historiography from the first Jewish histories of the Holocaust to today in order to give a sense of where the historiography stands now and how it got here."-

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Bibliographies

Holocaust Studies : Oxford Bibliographies [Web version]
Bibliography of the Holocaust [Web version]
Provided by Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center.
The Holocaust : an annotated bibliography and resource guide [Print Book]
Edited by David M. Szonyi. House for the National Jewish Resource Center, New York 1985. ISBN: 9780881250572

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Studying and Teaching

Erinnerungskultur und Holocaust Education im digitalen Wandel [eBook]
hrsg. von Grit Oelschlegel, Lukas Nievoll, Gerald Lamprecht, Victoria Kumar, Sebastian Stoff. Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2024. ISBN: 9783839464151
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The memory of National Socialism and the Holocaust is in constant transformation. This change is becoming just as important as the development of digital Holocaust education. This is evident not least in the ever-increasing number of digital educational offerings and geo-referenced web applications in which places of remembrance are marked on digital maps and provided with further information in the spirit of deep mapping. The contributors critically discuss these developments and present the different aspects of digital georeferenced documentation, remembrance and mediation projects.

Die Erinnerung an den Nationalsozialismus und den Holocaust ist in stetiger Transformation begriffen. Dieser Wandel gewinnt ebenso an Bedeutung wie die Entwicklung der digitalen Holocaust Education. Dies zeigt sich nicht zuletzt an immer neuen digitalen Vermittlungsangeboten und georeferenzierten Webapplikationen, in denen Erinnerungsorte auf digitalen Landkarten markiert und im Sinne des Deep Mappings mit weiterführenden Informationen versehen werden. Die Beiträger*innen diskutieren diese Entwicklungen kritisch und stellen die unterschiedlichen Aspekte von digitalen georeferenzierten Dokumentations-, Erinnerungs- und Vermittlungsprojekten vor.
Sources for studying the Holocaust : a guide [eBook]
edited by Paul R. Bartrop.. NewYork: Routledge, 2023 xii, 270 p.. ISBN:9781003248620.
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"Sources for Studying the Holocaust provides a pathway for readers to engage with questions about what sources can be used to study the Holocaust. For many historians the challenge has been how to rescue the story from oblivion when oft-used sources for other periods of history introduce even more issues around authenticity and reliability. What can be learned of what transpired in villages and towns numbering several thousand people, when all its Jewish inhabitants were totally obliterated through Nazi action? Who can furnish eyewitness testimony, if all the eyewitnesses were killed? How does one examine written records preserving knowledge of facts or events, where none were kept or survived the onslaught? And what weight do we put upon such resources which did manage to endure the destruction wrought by the Holocaust? Each chapter looks at one of a diverse range of source material from which scholars have rescued the history, including survivor testimony, diaries, letters, newspaper accounts, photographs, trial documents, artefacts, digital resources, memorials, films, literature and art. Each chapter shows how different types of records can be utilized as accurate sources for the writing of Holocaust history. Collectively, they highlight the ways in which all material, even the most fragmentary, can be employed to recreate a reliable record of what happened during the Holocaust and show how all sources considered can be employed to find meaning and understanding by exploring a range of sources deeply. This book is a unique analysis of the types of sources that can be used to access the history of Holocaust. It will be of invaluable interest to readers, students and researchers of the Holocaust"-- Provided by publisher.
Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust [eBook]
edited by Laura Hilton and Avinoam Patt. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2020. ISBN:9780299328634,.
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Few topics in modern history draw the attention that the Holocaust does. The Shoah has become synonymous with unspeakable atrocity and unbearable suffering. Yet it has also been used to teach tolerance, empathy, resistance, and hope. Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust provides a starting point for teachers in many disciplines to illuminate this crucial event in world history for students. Using a vast array of source materials--from literature and film to survivor testimonies and interviews--the contributors demonstrate how to guide students through these sensitive and painful subjects within their specific historical and social contexts. Each chapter provides pedagogical case studies for teaching content such as antisemitism, resistance and rescue, and the postwar lives of displaced persons. It will transform how students learn about the Holocaust and the circumstances surrounding it.

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Best databases to find articles

America History & Life
Covers the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to present with records from 2,000 English-language journals published worldwide. Includes book reviews.
Historical Abstracts
Find articles about the history of the world from 1450 to the present, published in over 2,000 journals from many countries. Includes book reviews. Does not include articles about the US or Canada. For these see America: History & Life.
Jahresberichte für deutsche Geschichte (1949-2015)
Lists journal articles, books and dissertations on all aspects of German history. Covers all entries from 1949, the first volume of the new section, to the year 2015. At the moment ca. 764,000 titles are included. (Final state: December 2015)
Important: The database JDG-Online won't be updated anymore
The Jahresberichte of the Interwar Period (Vol. 1-14, 1925-1938) are also electronically available, but in another research service here
JSTOR
JSTOR provides access to millions of journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. The Archive Journal Collection is included.
RAMBI: The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies (Interface in English)
A selective bibliography of scholarly articles in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages in all fields of Jewish studies and the study of Israel.

WorldCat (OCLC)
WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of tens of thousands of institutions (mostly libraries), in many countries, that are current or past members of the OCLC global cooperative.
You can search Worldcat using Library of Congress Subject Headings. Here some examples:

Holocaust, 1939-1945.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
Holocaust, 1939-1945 -- Germany.
Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- URSS.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Romania.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Soviet Union.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature -- History and criticism.
Holocaust survivors' writings -- History and criticism.
Holocaust survivors -- Biography.
Holocaust survivors' writings, French
Jewish children in the Holocaust.
Nazi concentration camps.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Pictorial works.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Press coverage.

You can find all the related Library of Congress Subject Headings in the Library of Congress webpage:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
Jews--Persecutions.
War crime trials--Jerusalem.
Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
Holocaust survivors.

Don't forget to check Virgo if UVA has the desired book.
Otherwise you can request it through the Interlibrary Loan service

The Yehuda Schwarzbaum Online Library
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The Yad Vashem Library is the world's most comprehensive collection of published material about the Holocaust. It contains over 169,000 titles in 64 languages and seeks to collect all material published about the Holocaust, making it available to the reading public and safeguarding it for future generations. Not only does the material lining the shelves of the library contain a wealth of information about the Holocaust, it represents mankind's attempt to grapple with one of the most traumatic events in human history.

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Databases & Archives

Testaments to the Holocaust: Documents & Rare Printed Materials from the Wiener Library, London
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"Testaments to the Holocaust is the online publication of the archives of the Wiener Library, London, the first archive to collect evidence of the Holocaust and the anti-semitic activities of the German Nazi Party. It contains documentary evidence collected in several different programmes: the eyewitness accounts which were collected before, during and after the Second World War, from people fleeing the Nazi oppression, a large collection of photographs of pre-war Jewish life, the activities of the Nazis, and the ghettoes and camps, a collection of postcards of synagogues in Germany and eastern Europe, most since destroyed, a unique collection of Nazi propaganda publications including a large collection of 'educational' children's' books, and the card index of biographical details of prominent figures in Nazi Germany, many with portrait photographs. Pamphlets, bulletins and journals published by the Wiener Library to record and disseminate the research of the Institute are also included."
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
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The Fortunoff Archive currently holds more than 4,400 testimonies, which are comprised of over 12,000 recorded hours of videotape. Testimonies were produced in cooperation with thirty-six affiliated projects across North America, South America, Europe, and Israel. The Fortunoff Archive and its affiliates recorded the testimonies of willing individuals with first-hand experience of the Nazi persecutions, including those who were in hiding, survivors, bystanders, resistants, and liberators. Testimonies were recorded in whatever language the witness preferred, and range in length from 30 minutes to over 40 hours
Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive
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The Visual History Archive is the Shoah Foundation Institute’s collection of audiovisual interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides. With a current collection of more than 55,000 eyewitness testimonies, the Visual History Archive is the largest digital collection of its kind in the world. It preserves history as told by the people who lived it. Each testimony is a unique source of insight and knowledge, offering powerful stories from history that demand to be explored and shared.

Contains more than 55,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide. The interviews have been conducted in 65 countries and 45 languages. Testimonies have index terms at one-minute segments. Initially a repository of Holocaust testimony, the Visual History Archive has expanded to include testimonies from the Armenian Genocide that coincided with World War I, the 1937 Nanjing Massacre in China, the Cambodian Genocide of 1975-1979, the Guatemalan Genocide of 1978-1983, the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, the war and genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992-1995, and the ongoing conflicts in the Central African Republic and South Sudan, and anti-Rohingya mass violence of August-October 2017. It also includes testimonies about contemporary acts of violence against Jews.

Contents as of August 2016: Jewish survivors (approx. 49,400 testimonies) -- Rescuers and aid providers (approx. 1,100 testimonies) -- Sinti and Roma survivors (approx. 400 testimonies) -- Liberators and liberation witnesses (approx. 360 testimonies) -- Political prisoners (approx. 260 testimonies) -- Jehovah's Witness survivors (approx. 80 testimonies) -- War crimes trials participants (approx. 60 testimonies) -- Survivors of eugenics policies (13 testimonies) -- Homosexual survivors (8 testimonies) -- 1994 Rwandan Tutsi genocide -- 1937 Nanjing Massacre -- Armenian genocide.
Database of Holocaust survivor and victim names
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"The Museum's Database of Holocaust Survivor and Victim Names contains records on people persecuted during World War II under the Nazi regime including Jews, Roma and Sinti, Poles and other Slavic peoples, Soviet prisoners of war, persons with disabilities, political prisoners, trade union leaders, "subversive" artists, those Catholic and Lutheran clergy who were seen as opponents of the regime, resisters, Jehovah's Witnesses, male homosexuals, and criminal offenders, among others. Learn more about the victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution. It brings together information from the Museum's collections, as well as from other organizations, about individual survivors and victims into one search tool. The database contains millions of names of individuals persecuted under the Nazi regime. If a name is linked to a document, you can submit a request to have the document e-mailed to you. Around 60 percent of the name data and resources included in the database are available online. To access the full database, visit the Museum"
The JewishGen Holocaust Database
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JewishGen's Holocaust Database is a unique and critically valuable collection of databases which contain information about Holocaust victims and survivors. As of August 2024, more than 5.9 million records are available in this continually updated collection, which includes Camp Records, Transport Lists, Name Lists, and a multitude of of other record types.
This is an ongoing project
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The Deportations of Jews Research Project and Digital Database
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The deportation of millions of Jews from various locations throughout Europe and the Mediterranean region to ghettos, camps, and other deadly sites during the Holocaust was an integral part of the Nazi policy of persecution and annihilation, which culminated in the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question.” The large-scale Deportations of Jews Research Project (“Transports to Extinction”) reconstructs the deportations of the Jews carried out by the German Nazi regime and its collaborators during the Holocaust, and it makes every possible effort to include each Jewish community from which Jews were deported. The research project aims to collect reliable and detailed information about each deportation – its route of transport, the Nazi persecution apparatus that implemented it, and the experience of the victims. This comprehensive research draws on a wide range of primary and secondary documentation. Details of the deportations and the actual transports are available to the public via the project’s digital database on the Yad Vashem website. The goal of this database is to rescue from oblivion, as completely as possible, the Jewish communities that vanished in the deportation process..
Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive
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Since 1981, Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, has interviewed Holocaust survivors. The University's Mardigian Library has been the repository of these interviews. It has been our privilege to provide a forum for those voices, "listening ears," as one survivor notes, and the facilities to record the testimonies. As a University of distinction, the campus has demonstrated its dignity and character because of the respect it has accorded the tapes and the people who made them..

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Yizkor Books

(memorial books that documents the history of Jewish communities that were destroyed in the Holocaust)

Yizkor Book Database
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This database attempts to list all Yizkor Books known to exist, as well as many other books written about a particular community. The database currently contains the titles of over 1,000 books.
When you search for a particular town or region in the database, you will receive following information:
. A description of Yizkor Books for that location.
. Libraries with those books.
. Links to any translations that may exist on the Yizkor Book Project's web site.

Many communities that do not have individual Yizkor Books are covered by national or regional books, which are listed under the name or the country or region. Regional books are particularly important for Latvia and Lithuania. Other regions in the database include: Baden-Wurttemberg, Bavaria, Bessarabia, Crimea, Galicia, Hesse, Karpatalja, Maramures, Polesie, Salaj, Silesia, Transylvania, and Volhynia (Wolyn).
Jewish Gen Yizkor Books: Bibliographic database, translations
Yizkor book translations
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Database containing English translations of texts of Yizkor books (memorial books) of Jewish communities in Eastern and Central Europe destroyed in the Holocaust. Extensive indexing by community, personal names, and book titles as well as other terms.
New York Public Library -- Yizkor Books Research Guide
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Find yizkor books in the collections of The New York Public Library. Most (85% ) of the 700 yizkor books at The New York Public Library are online.
Yiddish Book Center -- Yizkor Books
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The David and Sylvia Steiner Yizkor Book Collection contains memorial books that document Jewish life before World War II, along with vivid firsthand accounts of the Holocaust and its aftermath.
The JewishGen Yizkor Book Necrology Database
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The JewishGen Yizkor Book Necrology Database indexes the names of persons in the necrologies — the lists of Holocaust martyrs — published in the Yizkor Books appearing on the JewishGen Yizkor Book Translation Project. This database is only an index of names; it directs researchers back to the Yizkor Book itself, where more complete information may be available.

This database allows the surnames to be searched via soundex. Because most of these names were transliterated from Hebrew and Yiddish, the spellings of the surnames here may not be as you are used to seeing them in Latin-alphabet sources.

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Looted Art & Cultural Property

Database of art claims filed with the United States by 1956
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Created by Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the US.
The Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States, formed in 1998, was charged with investigating what happened to the assets of victims of the Holocaust that ended up in the possession of the United States Federal government. The final report of the Commission, “Plunder and Restitution: Findings and Recommendations of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States and Staff Report" was submitted to President Clinton in December 2000.

The collection consists of 19 series. The first fifteen series of the collection are composed mostly of photocopied federal records. These records were reproduced at the National Archives and Records Administration by commission members for their research. The records relate to Holocaust assets created between the mid 1930’s and early 1950’s by a variety of U. S. Government agencies and foreign sources..
The Claims Conference-WJRO Looted Art & Cultural Property Initiative
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The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) and the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) conduct a comprehensive program toward the restitution of Jewish-owned art, Judaica, and other cultural property lost and plundered during the Holocaust.
Research Databases overview of existing looted art/Judaica as well as provenance research databases worldwide.
Resources The Claims Conference has compiled resources for research to provide assistance to experts engaged in issues concerning cultural plunder during the Holocaust, individual and family claimants and the general public.
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Archives

Arolsen Archives
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Clarifying fates and looking for missing persons: for decades, these were the central tasks of the Arolsen Archives. To this day, we answer inquiries about some 20,000 victims of Nazi persecution every year. Our work in the fields of research and education is more important than ever to inform today’s society about the crimes perpetrated by the Nazis. The comprehensive online archive is an essential part of what we do. As an international center on Nazi persecution, we see it as our mission to contribute to debate on remembrance and coming to terms with the Nazi period, political persecution and racism.
Guide for the YIVO Archives
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The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Archive contains information about more than 23 million documents, photographs, recordings, posters, and films in the Archives of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The YIVO Archives’ multilingual collections reflect the life and culture of Jews around the world and is also one of the world's foremost resources for the study of East European Jewry, Yiddish literature and language, the Holocaust, and the American Jewish immigrant experience. More information

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Museums

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust. Adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the USHMM provides for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history. It is dedicated to helping leaders and citizens of the world confront hatred, prevent genocide, promote human dignity, and strengthen democracy.

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The Museum’s Collections document the fate of Holocaust victims, survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others through artifacts, documents, photos, films, books, personal stories, and more. Search below to view digital records and find material that you can access at our library and at the Shapell Center.
Special Collections
The National Institute for Holocaust Documentation's Special Collections are created through joint institutional partnerships, generous gifts to fund significant acquisitions, and the sponsorship of key program areas. These collaborations advance the field of Holocaust education and scholarship by enabling access to an unparalleled repository of evidence that documents the fate of victims, survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others.,/span>
Yad Vashem: The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Israel's Holocaust Museum. Contains extensive digital collections, including The Encyclopedia of Ghettos, Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, and Encyclopedia of the Righteous.
Anne Frank House
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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.

List of Holocaust memorials and museums in the United States via Wikipedia
List of Holocaust memorials and museums (worldwide) via Wikipedia

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