Holocaust Websites

Teaching Aids

 • Abe's Story "Follow the journey of survivor Abram Korn through his story, interactive map, online lesson plans, and email support from his son, Joey, who put the site online and edited his father's memoirs."

• http://www.alst.org-The Arnold Liebster Foundation site, which deals with the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses.

• Alan Jacobs Photos of Auschwitz and the Camps View pictures of Auschwitz. Compare photos from the camps.

• Anne Frank House View Anne Frank's house. The site exhibits images from the past and present. See pictures of Anne Frank's house including her bedroom and the Annex (Their hiding place). Explore the museum which includes an education department, exhibits, and CD-ROM information.

• The Auschwitz Alphabet Each letter of the alphabet details the horrors of the Holocaust; some are personal tales.

• Auschwitz Museum Created by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, this site includes a detailed history of Auschwitz, informaton on visiting the camp and museum, images, maps, publications, and latest news. Also included is information on camp preservation.

• C.A.N.D.L.E.S. Children of Auschwitz website featuring information on twins, books, and lesson plans.

·    Consolidated World Wide Web Resources for the Holocaust. An outstanding list of Holocaust related links and search tips.

• Cybrary of the Holocaust An online educational forum that provides information and access to historical materials includes images, witness testimonies, and scholar interviews. The site includes educational resources for grades 6 through college.

• Facing History and Ourselves Facing History and Ourselves is a national educational and professional organization whose mission it is to engage students of diverse backgrounds to examine of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. By studying the historical development and lessons of the Holocaust, and other examples of genocide, students make the essential connection between history and the moral choices they confront in their own lives.

• Ghetto Fighter's House Museum of the Holocaust and Resistance  Information on the Holocaust and the Resistance. Also, the KIBBUTZ LOHAMEI HAGETAOT (THE GHETTO FIGHTERSÕ KIBBUTZ) in Israel. Exhibits, education center, and searchable database.

• Guidelines for Teaching about the Holocaust United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Guide to Teaching the Holocaust

• The Holocaust Guide for Teachers A page from the Cybrary website. This is a series of guides for teachers, "designed so that the teacher does not have to pursue original source material in order to feel comfortable with the complexity and diversity of Holocaust history and the range of the subject matter."

• Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy A Think Quest site designed by students! This site has it all: summary of the Holocaust, definitions, interactive timelines, virtual reality, audio clips of Holocaust survivors, a multimedia glossary and interviews with historians, and revisionism.  Information on Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda & Burundi, and the Nuremberg Trials

• Holocaust Museum Houston Guidelines for Teaching the Holocaust, calendar of events, exhibitions.

• Holocaust Pictures Exhibit Pictures from the Holocaust.

• Holocaust Teacher Resource Center Educators (kindergarten through college) will find materials which can be brought into the classroom and studied. Whenever possible, entire documents are included and may be downloaded for direct use in the classroom. In other instances samples from the documents are presented. Lesson plans, curricula, and video.

• I Saw the Walking Dead: A Black Sergeant Remembers Buchenwald  Part of the History Matters website. This page focuses on the American soldiers who liberated the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp. Included is an interview with Leon Bass, an African-American sergeant, who served with a segregated army unit who witnessed the "walking dead" of Buchenwald.

• "Lest We Forget" CD-ROM Lest We Forget- A History of the Holocaust The latest dual platform multimedia CD-ROM from Logos Research Systems, Inc. was awarded the 1996 Graphics and Animation BIMA Award from the British Interactive Multimedia Association.

• Literature of the Holocaust Links for books, stories, and website.

• Missing Identity This site's focus is to identify victims and to locate survivors. It includes last known information, pictures, names, and places of birth. Also provides success stories of families that have been reunited.

• Night by Elie Wiesel Teacher Cyberguide  A supplemental unit to Night by Elie Wiesel developed by teachers in the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators (SCORE) Project. Funded by the California Technology Assistance Program (CTAP) and the California County Superintendents Educational Services Association (CCSESA)

• Nizkor Project One of the most comprehensive sites online for research, with extensive documentation and refutation of revisionism.

• An Online Magazine for Post-Holocaust Issues  Created, maintained, and supervised by Holocaust survivor Alexander Kimel, this site has been recommended by the Jerusalem Post and The History Channel. The site offers many articles on a wide selection of topics. It opens with the evocation: "Almighty God! Let the Ashes of the Children incinerated in Auschwitz, rivers of blood spilled in Babi Yar or Majdanek, be a warning to mankind that violence is destructive, hatred is contagious, while man has an unlimited capacity for cruelty." The magazine includes editorials, feature articles, feedback and comments, previews of future topics, links to other sites and, an extensive section of writings by Mr. Kimel, "Holocaust Understanding and Prevention."

• PBS's Frontline -- Nazi Gold This Website is a companion to the PBS Frontline special report on Switzerland's wartime actions as a neutral nation and its role as banker and financial broker for Nazi Germany. Sections of the site include: reactions and discussion: "What are your views of Switzerland's actions during the war?" "The Train: Were Nazi death trains allowed through Zurich -- a look at what is known -- and not known." "Switzerland and the War: Neutral or Cowardly?" Further Readings (including the Eizenstat Report and the Swiss Federal Coucil's response). How to Seek World War II Swiss Bank Acccounts. Map: What were the actions of other neutral nations?

·    Philadelphia Area Holocaust Resources – Information on area resources by WHYY.

• Shanash: The Jewish Internet Consortium Holocaust Home Page  This site contains information that refutes the efforts of Holocaust deniers.

• Shtetl (Frontline) A Frontline documentary focusing on the Holocaust in Poland. The site includes information for those interested in trying to recover a family's history (especially Jewish ancestors in Eastern Europe and parts of Russia), non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews, and Polish - Jewish relations.

• Simon Wiesenthal Center's Multimedia Learning Center The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international center for Holocaust remembrance and the defense of human rights and the Jewish people. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the Center's mandate is a unique combination of social action, public outreach, scholarship, education and media projects as it imparts the lessons of the Holocaust and develops educational strategies for teaching tolerance.

• Teach with Movies: Learning guide to Schindler's List A learning guide to Schindler's List.

•Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust From the timeline, "Images: The Nuremberg Trials" maintained by the University of South Florida, this page includes images and short text of Eichmann's trial.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum A wonderful source for research and education materials on the Holocaust. The site includes an extensive photo archive, museum programs, libraries, and expert research assistance. "America's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation of Holocaust history, serves as this country's memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust. The Museum's primary mission is to advance and disseminate knowledge about this unprecedented tragedy; to preserve the memory of those who suffered; and to encourage its visitors to reflect upon the moral and spiritual questions raised by the events of the Holocaust as well as their own responsibilities as citizens of a democracy."

· Linda Woolf's Holocaust and Genocide Links - An outstanding web site from one the world’s experts in Holocaust and genocide studies, Dr. Linda Woolf of Webster University. 

• Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance AuthorityIn Israel, the museum also offers a chance to submit searches through their Hall of Names project, where people can possibly find out what happened to members of their family. Contact them for more information.