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Holocaust Word used to describe a slaughter, especially the destruction of masses of human beings. The Hebrew translation is "Sho'ah", which appeared for the first time in Jerusalem in 1940 and has been used since the 1950's to describe the destruction of European Jewry. We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah March 1998 document issued by the Vatican Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews We Remember: A Critique The document plus a response from the Council of Christians and Jews Vatican II Revisited A review by Judith H. Banki of "Nostra Aetate" and "We Remember" Holocaust Statements of Pope John Paul II, collected by the Anti-Defamation League Speech of John Paul II at Yad Vashem During the Pope's March 2000 visit to Israel Joint Statement on Dealing with Holocaust Revisionism A document by The Synagogue Council of America and The National Conference of Catholic Bishops (USA) The Faithful in a Time of Trial: The Evangelical Understanding of the Holocaust Article by Yaakov Ariel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Possibility and Plausibility of Divine Abusiveness or Sadism as the Premise for a Religious Response to the Holocaust Article by Isabel Wollaston, University of Birmingham Characterizing the Acts of Righteous Gentiles: A Matter of Duty or Supererogation? Article by Andrew Flescher, Brown University Dimensions of the Holocaust Article by Wolfgang Benz The Code of Continued Silence:Breitman's Discovery of Allied Decodes about the Holocaust Article by Konrad Kwiet Anzac and Auschwitz: The unbelievable story of Donald Watt Article by Konrad Kwiet Annual Holocaust Conference Papers Papers delivered at Pennsylvania's Millersville University since 1996 Not a Useable Past Article by Michael Nutkiewicz in Idea, a journal of social issues. Discusses the relevance of the Holocaust for contemporary American society Scholarly Essays Essays with a focus on women in the Holocaust 36 Questions About the Holocaust From The Simon Wiesenthal Center Historical Topics: Explore the History of the Holocaust The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum provides this interactive collection that includes hundreds of articles, artifact images, documentary film footage clips, oral history testimony segments, maps, thematic chronologies and photographs Holocaust Timeline Holocaust The article in Britannica Encyclopedia Holocaust The article in Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia The Holocaust History Project A free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust-denial Yom Hashoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day Official site of the State of Israel. Includes an historical overview of the Holocaust The Holocaust in Comparative & Historical Perspective By R.J.Rummel, Professor of Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust An article by Shira Schoenberg, courtesy of the Jewish Student Online Research Center Neutrals--Pope Pius XII A presentation of the Simon Wiesenthal Center Why was the Pope Silent? Written by Alexander Kimel - Holocaust Survivor French Catholic Church Apologizes for Silence on Holocaust Article in the New York Times, October 1, 1997 Pius XII and the Holocaust A reader, published by the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights Hitler and the Final Solution A timeline courtesy of the Department of History at the University of San Diego Nazism and the Holocaust From Beyond the Pale: A History of the Jews in Russia Holocaust -- Understanding and Prevention Online Holocaust magazine with articles by Alexander Kimel - Holocaust Survivor Holocaust Memorial Day Virtual Jerusalem's pages: History. Observe the Day. Holocaust Resources. Stories of Survival. Anti-Semitism Today. Holocaust to Rebirth "Don't Let the Light Go Out" A Multimedia Remembrance sponsored by the Jewish Post of New York. This Exhibition features Animated Onscreen Movies, Historical Images, Quicktime Movies and Sound to bring you a little closer to the horror that is and was the Holocaust Points of View Contains these Holocaust articles: Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen; The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Why Christians should go by Barbara Beckwith; Auschwitz: 'It's Amazing That a Bird Can Sing Here' by Barbara Beckwith Some Observations on the Bruderhof, the Holocaust and Christianity Written by Charles Lamar Holocaust Essays Essays created by a class studying the Holocaust An Apologist for the Allies Mitchell Bard's review of The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews from the Nazis by William Rubinstein in the March 5, 1998 issue of Intellectual Capital Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies Excerpts from a collection of over 4,000 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust The Holocaust Chronicle A companion project to a book by the same title, this is a detailed, cross-referenced Holocaust Chronicle Web site that will include the book's complete text and a revolving selection of images. Because Holocaust-related developments cross news wires daily, the Web site will be updated continually Holocaust in Jurbarkas B.A. Thesis submitted to the University of Vilnius on the mass extermination of Jews of Jurbarkas in the provinces of Lithuania during the German Nazi Occupation The Destruction of the Jewish Community of Yurburg Translation from Hebrew by Regina Borenstein Naividel of the article entitled JURBURG (JURBARKAS) LITHUANIA, from the book Yahudat Lita vol. IV Pages 295-297 Brody An account of the history of this Ukrainian town and what happened to it during the Holocaust Jewish History in Poland during the years 1939-1945 Article by Mike Rosenzweig, Ph. D Women and the Holocaust Personal reflections, reviews, essays, and much more Twins Stories Personal stories of twins who were involved in Nazi experimentation Deathly Silence: Everyday People in the Holocaust Book by Plater Robinson, courtesy of the Southern Institute For Education and Research at Tulane University Louisiana Holocaust Survivors Local residents share their stories in interviews conducted by Plater Robinson of Tulane University The Einsaztgruppen Historical development, directives, reports, perpetrators, survivors, trials An Introduction to the Einsaztgruppen Purpose, composition, victims, reports, and more University of Notre Dame Holocaust Project Promotes understanding of the role of the Church in the Holocaust, what Catholics think about the Holocaust, and the lessons we can use for society's role in dealing with the future in areas such as science, politics, business ethics and the arts Holocaust Survivors Here we present history with a human face. Read the stories of the survivors. Hear them speak. Look at their family photographs. Consult our encyclopedia. Read a historical introduction to the Holocaust The Impact of the Holocaust On Survivors and Their Children By Sandra S. Williams of the Judaic Studies Program, University of Central Florida Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Oswiecim, Poland History of Auschwitz. The Museum. Visiting the memorial. How you can help. Publications. Latest news Beit Theresienstadt Beit Theresienstadt at Kibbutz Givat Chaym Ichud was erected in memory of the Jews of Ghetto Theresienstadt who perished during the Nazi persecution Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial The Memorial stretches over a great part of the area on which, in the summer of 1938 - only a few months after Austria's "Anschluss" (annexation) to Nazi-Germany - construction work for the Mauthausen concentration camp was begun. On the area, there is the quarry, an important factor for choosing this location, and, at the same time, through its function as an instrument of exploitation and extermination, a symbol for Mauthausen; on the site, there are also numerous original buildings. Several cemeteries, as well as the "ash dump", last resting place for victims hailing from almost all parts of Europe are situated on the site of the Memorial and form the core of this "place of commemoration". Finally, the Memorial with its permanent exhibition on the Mauthausen concentration camp and its satellite camps, is one of the most important "places of political learning" in this country Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site Map; The beginning; The prisoners; Slave labour in the camp; Suffering and death in the camp; The last months and liberation The Dachau Gas Chambers There are two different types of gas chambers built in the Dachau Concentration Camp outside of Munich Germany. One type was specifically designed for delousing procedures; the other exclusively as a homicidal gas chamber The Forgotten Camps Created and maintained by by Vincent Châtel and Chuck Ferree, this site is a history of Nazi concentration camps, work camps, police camps, and transit camps Belzec: The Forgotten Camp Related by Rabbi Shaul Rosenblatt, Aish HaTorah Concentration Camps Photographs of Birkenau and Mauthausen Auschwitz/Birkenau These photographs were taken in Auschwitz and Birkenau by Alan Jacobs in the years 1979 - 1981 Flossenbürg Photo Collection The photo collection consists of the 61 pictures listed below. Each picture is accompanied by a caption written by the soldiers of the 97th division of the U.S. 3rd army. Click on the picture to view a copy in web-friendly format. Click the "download" link to download a zipped package of printable high-quality copies of each image and caption (Tiff format) Chelmno Extermination Camp From a site dealing with "The Holocaust in Gombin." Concentration Camps From The Simon Wiesenthal Center site Extermination Camps From The Simon Wiesenthal Center site Children Article courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust We are the Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust, persecuted during the Nazi era in ghettos, in camps, in hiding, on the run, or forced to leave Nazi occupied Europe. Our objectives are to represent the interest of the child survivor community and to support each other, to keep alive the memory of the six million Jews - including the 1.5 million children - murdered during the Holocaust, and to pass on our legacy to future generations. We pursue these objectives by telling the stories of our survival, by community interaction, education, and by holding conferences and fighting antisemitism Musée-mémorial des enfants d'Izieu On April 6th, 1944, forty-four children who were being sheltered in the Izieu children's home and the seven adults in charge of them were arrested by the Lyon Gestapo, under the command of Klaus Barbie. They were arrested because they were Jewish. Out of all the people there that day, only one person escaped. Forty-two children and five adults were gassed in the extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Two teenagers and the superintendent of the home were put to death by firing squad in Estonia. There was one sole survivor The King of Children The Life and Death of Janusz Korczak, by Betty Jean Lifton Anne Frank: Her Life and Times Courtesy of The Anne Frank Center USA. Anne's Story. The Holocaust. The Diary. The Annex Anne Frank Was Not Alone: Holland and the Holocaust This is a transcript of a lecture which was presented by Anthony Anderson at the University of Southern California on October 24, 1995 Holocaust Education Center Located in Fukuyama-city, forty-five minutes from Hiroshima City where the atomic bomb was dropped fifty years ago, the center is dedicated to those countless children who were ripped of their hope, their future and their lives Childhood In Times of War Book by Andrew Salamon. In 1939, Budapest, Hungary was a beautiful and lively metropolis, gracing the banks of the Danube River. Six years later, the city lay in shambles, and 460 000 Jews had been killed. This is the remarkable story of one Jewish boy who survived those years Missing Identity The purpose of this site is to serve as a home for clarifying facts and conveying multidirectional information which might lead to identifying these children who lost their identity in the Holocaust Propaganda and Children during the Hitler Years Article by Mary Mills describing the Jewish problem within the Nazi curriculum and in propaganda picture books that targeted young children Children Write About the Holocaust Holocaust stories, poems, and book reviews by American children ages 9-13 The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous During the Holocaust thousands of non-Jews risked their lives to save Jews. The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous cares for 1,500 aged and needy Righteous Gentiles and educates future generations about their extraordinary acts of courage Righteous Among the Nations From the Yad Vashem site Righteous Among the Nations From The Simon Wiesenthal Center site Oskar Schindler Biography courtesy of the Jewish Student Online Research Center The Righteous Among the Gentiles: Nine Jesuit Priests Essays by the Rev. Vincent A. Lapomarda, S.J. of the College of the Holy Cross To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue A previously unpublished book in which personal narratives and photographs reveal how certain individuals acting upon their own moral convictions--while endangering their own and their families' lives--saved the lives of Jewish people from Nazi-occupied Europe The Secret Room The story of Corrie ten Boom Holocaust Heroes A site devoted to honoring the brave men and women who risked their lives to rescue and shelter Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazi reign of terror. A major thrust of its mission will be to recognize the rescue activity of the many church groups whose work has been marginalized by too many Holocaust writers and historians Christian Rescuers Talk by Stanlee I. Stahl, Executive Director, The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, Mobile, Alabama, April 18, 2001 Characterizing the Acts of Righteous Gentiles: A Matter of Duty or Supererogation? Article in the Journal of Religion and Society by Andrew Flescher of Brown University Yad Vashem Established and instructed by Israeli Law in 1953, Yad Vashem commemorates the six million Jews and their communities wiped out in the Holocaust. Yad Vashem has the largest and the most comprehensive archive and information repositories on the Holocaust, housing more than 50 million pages of documents and hundreds of thousands of photographs and films. Over 75,000 titles and periodicals comprise the most significant library on Holocaust research in the world Massuah Massuah, the Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, was established as a non-profit organization in the 1960's at Kibbutz Tel-Itzhak by members of the Zionist youth movements "Hanoar Hazioni" and "Akiva", who sought to establish an institution that would stimulate interest in the Holocaust among young people, students and educators from Israel and around the world United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The Holocaust Museum: Why Christians Should Go St. Anthony Messenger article by Barbara Beckwith Holocaust Museum Houston Museum of Jewish Heritage--A Living Memorial to the Holocaust New York. Get an overview of the Museum and its history, find out how the Museum is organized, see a list of upcoming programs and events, learn about the family history center, and browse the Museum Shop on-line Memorial Museums for the Victims of National Socialism in Germany In addition to the addresses, there is a brief description of each institution, travel directions, related literature as well as illustrations The Mechelen Museum of Deportation and the Resistance The museum in Malines, a memorial, has been designed as the antechamber of death. This Sammellager Mecheln was the starting point of a one-way deportation route. Between 1942 and 1944, some 28 convoys of 25,257 prisoners were shipped from Malines to Auschwitz. Centering on this fatal deportation, it presents the history of the "Final Solution" in Belgium and in Europe Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies University of Minnesota site that includes visual and educational resources Ghetto Fighters' House Museum of the Holocaust and Resistance in Galilee. Includes biographies of partisans and anti-Nazi fighters Florida Holocaust Museum We are now the fourth largest Holocaust museum in the country. Rather than dwelling on the horrors of the past, The Florida Holocaust Museum concentrates on the present - reaching the individuals in our communities and classrooms uninformed about the Holocaust, and those who fail to grasp its size and implications. This tragic era in human history, provides the opportunity to study and challenge the impact of bigotry, prejudice, hatred and indifference El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center The museum was founded on the hope and belief that by remembering and documenting the events, civilized people will prevent another Holocaust Holocaust Museum and Study Center To date, the Holocaust Museum & Studies Center at the Bronx High School of Science has been visited by over 58,000 visitors from around the world. It is the recipient of 104 honors, commendations, and citations from through out the United States Catholic Teaching on the Shoah: Implementing the Holy See's We Remember Guidelines from the American bishops Teaching About the Holocaust Courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education The NCCHE has as its primary purpose the broad dissemination of scholarship on the root causes of antisemitism, its relation to the Holocaust and the implications from the Catholic perspective of both for today's world Cybrary of the Holocaust, Remember.org A marvelous site with solid educational information on the Holocaust. Prepared as a guide for teachers in Pennsylvania Teachers' Guide to the Holocaust Produced by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida. Timeline, People, The Arts, Activities, Resources Holocaust Teacher Resource Center Educators, (kindergarten through college) will find at this site 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 a sample from the documents is presented. The complete set of materials can be purchased directly from the "owner's" listed address Hatikvah Holocaust Education & Resource Center This western Massachusetts Center serves as a repository for Holocaust materials and testimonies--oral, visual, and written. It is a resource for Holocaust curricula and course materials for use in public, private and parochial schools Education From the Yad Vashem site Holocaust Studies A Social Studies School Service webpage. Contains critical essays/product reviews, sample lessons from activity books, RealVideo previews, online activities, web links The Beast Within: An Interdisciplinary Unit North Hagerstown High School in Maryland has put this program together, involving social studies, English, science and math departments in teaching the Holocaust The IB Holocaust Project Daniel Blackmon's Contemporary History Class in a Florida high school. Part of the International Baccalaureate Program. Be prepared for some heavy Java script The Holocaust: Humanity's Darkest Hour Created and maintained by three students participating in an annual contest that challenges Students, ages 12 to 19, to use the Internet as a collaborative, interactive teaching and learning tool, this Web site presents information on the Holocaust in several categories: the rise of the Nazis to power, and the beginning of the Holocaust; concentration camps and ghettos; resistance; the aftermath; biographies; glossary The Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy Another student project. Background information on the Holocaust and related events. Develop a sense of what the layout of a camp was and the mechanics behind a death machine. A year-by-year multimedia timeline of 1933 to 1945. Interactive portions of the site which present moral dilemmas arising from the Holocaust. Five survivors share their stories with you in RealAudio, four in text. Holocaust terms, their definitions, and links to related media and sites. Test your Holocaust knowledge with our online quizzes. Submit your thoughts, stories and artwork to the site's dynamic Wall An End to Intolerance An annual, international student-produced magazine. Each year, students participating in the Holocaust/Genocide Project collaborate from all over the world via computer telecommunications to publish this printed magazine. Each issue of the publication focuses on a particular topic Holocaust Translations By Kenneth Kronenberg. Teachers are free to use these documents, letters, and essays in their classes Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine In its various programs, the HHRC works to reduce prejudice, teach critical thinking, and empower Maine students not to be bystanders but to take an active role in creating a more humane society The Holocaust Commission The educational mission of the Holocaust Commission of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, Virginia is threefold: To promote an understanding of the uniqueness and magnitude of the Holocaust, its unfolding stages and its critical lessons. To serve as an Educational Resource Center for students and teachers to learn about the Holocaust, racism, and the dangers of prejudice. To help students apply the lessons of the Holocaust and other historical events – dangers of discrimination, peer pressure, unthinking obedience to authority, and indifference – to the moral decisions they make in their own lives Georgia Commission on the Holocaust The mission of The Georgia Commission on the Holocaust is to provide quality Holocaust Education programs for teachers and students of Georgia's middle and high schools colleges and universities, and to the general public Teaching the Holocaust An interdisciplinary and computerized program through the use of stamps, pictures, texts and paintings by children in the Holocaust Holocaust Literature for Children Molly Maffei, a teacher at Crim School in Bridgewater, New Jersey, has put together this annotated bibliography as an aid to elementary school teachers Holocaust Literature for Teachers Molly Maffei, a teacher at Crim School in Bridgewater, New Jersey, has put together this annotated bibliography as an aid to elementary school teachers Hanukkah in the Hiding Place Molly Maffei, a teacher at Crim School in Bridgewater, New Jersey, shares with us her experience with Holocaust education among third graders Holocaust Pictures Exhibition Daniel Keren scanned the pictures and wrote the original comments. The original stuff can be found at shamash.org. François Schmitz created the 37 posters of this exhibition. He modified some comments and he converted the pictures to interlaced-gif format Photo Gallery There are four main categories of photographs in this Gallery: family photographs from the survivors themselves, historical photographs from archives, portrait and location photographs, and collections of photographs which are of special interest and will be featured from time to time Photographs documenting the Holocaust in Hungary Photographs, many taken by the Nazis and captured by the Soviet Army when they over-ran Budapest; together with an essay by the renown Hungarian historian, Dr.László Karsai Ph.D., bear witness to the dreadful events that took place in Hungary The Art of Fernand "Horn" Van Horen Fernand Van Horen is a survivor from the concentration camps of Esterwegen and Flossenbürg. Most of the drawings you can see here were made during his two weeks of recovering, just after his liberation by the American troops on April 23th, 1945 Gideon: The Holocaust Collection This Holocaust Art Collection is a remarkable record of the pain and suffering of World War II, created from the personal experience and memories of Artist Gideon. This Collection of powerful paintings and sculptures began in 1944 as Gideon started sketching what he saw and felt all over Europe. When he returned home in 1946 he began painting and sculpturing these memories. This terrible event, burned in his soul, has continued till this day with his adding to the portrayal of it in his art. There are 25 works in this collection Shoah I----- Shoah II----- Shoah III Art by Ingrid Shafer prepared for Good Friday. Powerful Holocaust images Holocaust Denial A summary article, courtesy of the Anti-Defamation League Deceit & Misrepresentation: The Techniques of Holocaust Denial A thorough treatment from the Nizkor Project The News Media & Holocaust Denial--A Case in Point: Irving v. Lipstadt Article by Dan Yurman in Idea, a journal of social issues Holocaust Denial & The Big Lie This document was prepared by Daniel Keren and Jamie McCarthy, and edited to its present form by Ken McVay Theses on Revisionism Book by Pierre Vidal-Naquet originally published by Columbia University Press in 1992 HateWatch: Holocaust Deniers Links to nearly 20 groups and individuals who deny that the Holocaust took place Holocaust Denial and the Internet A Draft of a Legal Policy Paper on how to Deal with the Dissemination of Racist and Holocaust-Denial Information via Electronic Media, particularly the Internet Encountering Holocaust Denial Lesson Plan for Grades 9-12 Irving's War The thesis of these articles is that David Irving's case was ill-conceived, ill-planned, and ill-tried. It is an attempt to show that the fraud and dishonesty that permeates Irving's historical writing was evident in his conduct of the trial as well The Holocaust: A Catholic English-Language Bibliography Prepared by Jerry Darring. Links are to abstracts of articles Catholics and the Holocaust A useful collection of links, courtesy of Vincent A. Lapomarda, S.J. of the College of the Holy Cross Holocaust Aish HaTorah's site. Overview: Follow the 20th century's most advanced society in their campaign to destroy an entire people. Headlines and Timelines: What was happening in the world during those tragic years? Issues: Questions that have plagued us for decades. Where was God in the Holocaust? How can we understand suffering? Personal Accounts: Stories of survival, escape and rescue. Exhibits: "Jews and Germans: Aspects of the True Self" is a photo-essay with interviews by Mark Berghash. Reference material for further study including a glossary, bibliography and links Shamash: The Jewish Internet Consortium Holocaust Home Page Photographs, articles, excerpts from documents, and lots more Holocaust Articles, the camps, glossary, timeline Nizkor Nizkor is not a single collection of Web pages. It is a collage of different projects, focusing around the Holocaust and the denial of the Holocaust The Mazal Library: A Holocaust Resource Archive (Documents and Microfilms); Nazi War Crime Trials: International Military Tribunal; Nazi War Crime Trials: Nuernberg Military Tribunal; Essays and Articles on the Holocaust; Aerial photos of the Auschwitz Death Camp The Holocaust\Shoah Page Lots of good material, collected by Ben S. Austin Holocaust Survivors Here we present history with a human face. Read the stories of the survivors. Hear them speak. Look at their family photographs. Consult our encyclopedia. Read a historical introduction to the Holocaust. 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