Holocaust Studies

Sources for Background Information

      Encyclopedias, Chronology, Atlas:

• The Dent atlas of the Holocaust
• Dictionary of the Holocaust: biography, geography, and terminology
• The encyclopedia of Jewish life : before and during the Holocaust
• Encyclopedia of the Holocaust
• Historical atlas of the Holocaust
• The historiography of the Holocaust
• The Holocaust and World War II almanac
• The Holocaust encyclopedia
• The Holocaust in Hungary : a selected and annotated bibliography, 2000-2007
• The Holocaust sites of Europe: an historical guide
• Nazi-looted Jewish archives in Moscow : a guide to Jewish historical and cultural collections in the Russian State Military Archive
• The Oxford handbook of Holocaust studies
• The Routledge atlas of the Holocaust
• Where once we walked : a guide to the Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust
• A world in turmoil : an integrated chronology of the Holocaust and World War II
• The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust
• The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum encyclopedia of camps and ghettos, 1933-1945
  

Holocaust in Literature, Art and Cinema

• After representation?: the Holocaust, literature, and culture
• Encyclopedia of Holocaust literature
• Historical dictionary of Holocaust cinema
• Holocaust and the moving image : representation in film and television since 1933
• Holocaust drama: the theater of atrocity
• Holocaust impiety in literature, popular music and film
• Holocaust literature: an encyclopedia of writers and their work
• Holocaust novelists
• Reference guide to Holocaust literature

Journals

• Genocide studies and prevention
• Holocaust and genocide studies
•  Journal of genocide research
• The journal of Holocaust education 
• Post-holocaust and anti-semitism
• Yad Vashem studies
• Yad-ṿa-shem: ḳovets meḥḳarim

   

  Collection of Primary Resources

• Testaments to the Holocaust
• Archives of the Holocaust
• The Holocaust. Presents translations for over 100 documents, including letters, diary excerpts, Nazi reports, and survivor testimonies, which trace the history of the Holocaust from the rise of Nazism through the liberation of the camps.
• The Holocaust : selected documents in eighteen volumes. Each volume is composed of facsimiles of essential records of the Holocaust, in most of its aspects from 1933 to 1945, arranged both topically and chronologically
• The Nazi concentration camps, 1933-1939 : a documentary history. This collection brings together revealing primary documents on the crucial origins of the Nazi concentration camp system in the prewar years between 1933 and 1939.
• Witness to the Holocaust. Documentary history of the Holocaust. Presents translated excerpts of key documents, speeches, announcements, letters, and reports, chronologically presented with commentary to provide context for each item.
• Documents on the Holocaust : selected sources on the destruction of the Jews of Germany and Austria, Poland, and the Soviet Union. Compiles translations of over 200 sources documenting the destruction of Jewish communities under the Nazis. Compiles official decrees, speeches, military orders, diary excerpts, and other primary sources. Includes indexes of names, places, organizations, and individuals.
• The destruction of Hungarian Jewry : a documentary account. Documents the destruction of the Hungarian Jewish community in 1944. Volume I covers the treatment of Hungarian Jews from 1940 until the Nazi occupation and volume II covers the roundups and deportations of March-April, 1944. Presents reproductions of the original sources. Includes an analytical list of documents. 
• Hitler and the Nazis: a history in documents. Collection of documents in translation and images covering the collapse of the Weimar Republic and Hitler’s rise to power, World War II, and the Holocaust.
• Documents of destruction; Germany and Jewry, 1933-1945. Compendium of translated documents outlining the history of the Holocaust, from decrees of the early days of the Third Reich through documents concerning the postwar fate of perpetrators.
• Sources of the Holocaust. Collects 84 translations of original documents, including letters, postwar depositions, speeches, diary excerpts, Nazi reports, and newspaper articles, which outline the history of the Holocaust.
• Nazism, 1919-1945. The rise and fall of Nazism from the movement’s founding through World War II. Interweaves translated excerpts from hundreds of primary documents.
• Inside Hitler’s Germany : a documentary history of life in the Third Reich. Primary source documents tracing the political and social history of Nazi Germany, from the origins of National Socialism in the years after World War I through the establishment of the Third Reich and the Holocaust.
• The Nazi Germany sourcebook: an anthology of texts. Translations of 148 documents, including some never before published in English, covering the rise of Nazism through the Holocaust and the following decades. Contains diplomatic records, minutes of meetings, diary excerpts, speeches, and eyewitness accounts.
• The Archives Branch of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. One of the world’s largest and most comprehensive repositories of Holocaust-related records.
• Yad Vashem. Established in 1953, as the world center for documentation, research, education and commemoration of the Holocaust.
• EuroDocs. A collection of links to European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated.
• The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. The Avalon Project, Yale Law School. Full-text access to the multivolume sets of the Nuremberg trial proceedings and transcripts originally published by the International Military Tribunal. Includes translations of many important Holocaust-related documents, such as the Stroop Report, the Warsaw Protocol, and the Night and Fog Decree.  
  
• Fortunoff video archive for Holocaust testimonies. A collection of over 4,400 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust. Yale University Library.
• Google Cultural Institute. A digital visual archive of landmark 20th century events and personalities, like Anne Frank House, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and Yad Vashem. 
  

  Related Subject guides:

• Jewish Studies