The Holocaust
A Carolina Day School Library
Resource Guide
Reference Works
Atlas of the Jewish World. REF 909 DEL
Includes a section titled "The Impact of the Holocaust" as well as photographs, maps, and other mentions throughout the text—check the index for page numbers.
Illustrated Atlas of Jewish Civilization. REF 909 GIL
Chapter 6 is about the Holocaust and contains text, photos, and maps.
Times Atlas of the Second World War. REF 911.TIM
The "German persecutions" section on pages 92-93 has a map of concentration camps and ghettos, a chart of planned and actual Jewish deaths by country, a chart of gypsy deaths and camps, and other maps. There is a timeline of the war beginning on page 14.
Great Events From History, Modern European Series. REF 940 MAG
Has a short article on the trials at Nuremberg.
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. REF 940.53 ENC
Oxford Companion to World War II. REF 940.53 OXF
American Decades: 1940 - 1949. REF 973.92 Ame 1996
Check the index. Has short sections on various topics, including "America's response to the Holocaust," "Roosevelt's political dilemma," "Religious response to the Holocaust," etc.
Encyclopedia of American Social History. REF 301.097 CAY
The chapter on the Jews mentions the Holocaust briefly.
Encyclopedia of Ethics. REF 170.3 ENC
The Holocaust in mentioned in the article on Genocide.
General Encyclopedias: Britannica, World Book, and Americana are available in paper format in the library.
Circulating Books
Check the CDS Online Catalogue for books here at the library. Try a keyword search, using such terms as Holocaust, Nuremberg, World War II, names or people involved, etc. Sort your list by call number to organize your findings.
Don’t forget the WRL (Web Resource Library) resources.
The Student Resource Center
The Student Resource Center is a subscription database providing access to essays in reference works, magazine
and newspaper articles, and primary documents. To access at school, click on the
desktop icon. You may also access it from home. Ask at the library for the
CDS password.
Internet Directories
Librarian’s Index to the Internet. http://lii.org/
A subject search here brings up 40 separate sites with information about
the Holocaust. All the sites are reviewed.
MavenSearch, the Jewish Web Directory. http://www.maven.co.il/
MavenSearch lists over 15,000 websites with many new sites being added
each week. MavenSearch enables users to quickly find websites by either
browsing through over 250 related subject categories or searching using a
unique engine which can deal with the different phonetic spelling variations
of Hebrew words and phrases.
About.com. http://about.com
The Judaism pages have a section
devoted to Holocaust links. From the main About.com page, just do a
keyword search with Holocaust, then choose The Holocaust to find
them.
Holocaust sites:
for a full description, refer to the handout you received in class.
Great starting sites:
The Nizkor Project . http://www1.us.nizkor.org/
Shamash: Holocaust Home
Page . http://www.shamash.org/holocaust/
Museums:
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. http://www.ushmm.org/
Yad Vashem on the Internet. http://www.yadvashem.org.il/
The Simon Wiesenthal Center Online. http://www.wiesenthal.com/
Other sites:
Cybrary of the Holocaust . http://www.remember.org/
The Avalon Project: The International Military Tribunal. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/imt.htm
Claims Conference Restitution
Guide . http://www.claimscon.org/
RestitutionGuide.html
Genocide: Resources for Teaching and Research. http://www.people.memphis.edu/~genocide
Holocaust Teacher Resource Center http://www.Holocaust-trc.org/
Rescuers from the Holocaust. http:// www.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/
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