Holocaust and Genocide History

The purpose of this guide is to list relevant Internet sites, Library databases, electronic journals and printed reference sources relating to the Holocaust and Genocide. This is not a comprehensive guide or gateway but rather a starting point to information in the area. Other useful resources will appear under General History.

Library databases
Electronic journals
Internet resources
Printed sources

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

• Electronic journals generally provide access to the full text of articles via the Internet.

Latest list of Holocaust & Genocide ejournals, direct from the catalogue

• Current University of Sydney staff and students may access many of these from their home or office using an Extro Account or the Remote Access Service. In some cases, passwords may be available.

NB Remember, there may be printed copies of the journals, especially earlier issues, in Fisher Research Library.

Holocaust and Genocide Studies
an international journal featuring research articles, interpretive essays, and book reviews in the social sciences and humanities. It is the principal publication to address the issue of how insights into the Holocaust apply to other genocides.

Full text sites

Cambodian Genocide Program
Presents the CGDB (Cambodian Genocide Data Base), an archive of bibliographic, biographic, photographic, and geographic data.
url: http://www.yale.edu/cgp/

Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of electronic reference works. You can search across the entire collection or access the titles individually in the Online Catalogue. It includes the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity.
url: Gale Reference Library
Access is for current University of Sydney staff and students only.

Genocide articles
Online version of Raphael Lemkin's article Genocide published in American Scholar, Volume 15, no. 2 (April 1946), p. 227-230
url: http://preventgenocide.org/lemkin/americanscholar1946.htm

Genocide of Dalits
Full text articles and a link to the Brahmist Genocide Index and the Dalitstan Journal
url: http://www.dalitstan.org/journal/genocide/dalits/dalits.html

Holocaust Issues
Archive Site for the US State Department information prior to January 20, 2001. This site is not updated, and Adobe Acrobat software is required to read the reports.
url: http://www.state.gov/www/regions/eur/holocausthp.html

Human Rights, US Department of State
The International Information Programs presents documents and information on human rights and US government policy. This includes reports, policy statements and links to web sites on human rights, human rights virtual libraries, and web sites of human rights organizations.
url: http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/rights/hrpage/

Voice Vision: Holocaust Survivor Oral History Project
Maintained by the University of Michigan, this site contains samples from transcripts and audio recordings of Holocaust survivor testimony.
url: http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/

Web Genocide Documentation Centre
Primary materials relating to twentieth-century genocidal and mass man-made killing occurrences. Edited by Dr Stuart Stein of the University of the West of England
url: http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide.htm

Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, was established in 1953. The website provides online exhibitions, bibiliographies, chronologies, etc.
url: http://www.yad-vashem.org.il/

Subject directories

First Nations Site
Provides links, bibliographies and articles on Native Americans, including: Dead Indians, Live Indians and Genocide and Washita: Genocide on the Great Plains.
url: http://www.dickshovel.com/www.html

Genocide in Twentieth Century Far East Asia
Links to websites for China, Tibet, Laos, Cambodia, East Timor and Vietnam, with a lengthy bibliography attached. Ignore the adds.
url: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Gulf/2140/

Holocaust and Genocide
A website designed by Linda Woolf of Webster University, containing course outlines, bibliographies and links to othe sites.
url: http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/holocaust.html

Holocaust/Shoah
Created by Paul Dickerson, one of the World Wide Web Developers and Site Managers for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust/Genocide Project, etc. The site includes links to organizations, educational projects and tools, archives and references, list and conference archives.
url: http://www.igc.org/ddickerson/holocaust.html

Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Resource Center
Directory of links provided by Raritan Valley Community College.
url: http://www.raritanval.edu/holocaust/

Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and literature.
url: http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/Holocaust/

Teaching History's links to sources on Genocide and the Holocaust
Teaching History is a journal supported by Emporia State University. As well as articles, the site provides links to resources for teachers at all levels.
url: http://www.emporia.edu/socsci/journal/holocaust.htm

Webster University, Center for the study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights
A detailed list of links to other websites.
url: http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/hghrlinks.html

Internet sites

Amnesty International
An organization that works to protect human rights worldwide. The site contains a library of the latest news on human rights abuses, reports and campaign information.
url: http://www.amnesty.org/

BBC: Genocide under the Nazis
A selection of articles, oral histories, images and websites. The site also links to debates about the documentary "Auschwitz: the Nazis & the Final Solution".
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/genocide/index.shtml

Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies
University of Minnesota site with a virtual tour, documents, educational resources, bibliographies and links to other sites.
url: http://www.chgs.umn.edu/

Curricula for teaching about the Armenian Genocide
The three links contain: background reading on the causes, implementation, and legacy of the Armenian Genocide, and a guidebook for college and university professors, featuring critical essays, syllabi, and assignments.
url: http://www.armenian-genocide.org/curricula/index.htm

Gendercide Watch
Contains case studies, news releases, articles and a listserv.
url: http://www.gendercide.org/gwmain.html

Holocaust Denial Bibliography
This article by John A. Drobnicki, was originally published in the Bulletin of Bibliography, Vol. 55, No. 3 (Sept. 1998): 157-168. He has added links to websites where they exist. Further bibliographies and articles by Drobnicki are also on this website.
url: http://www.york.cuny.edu/~drobnick/holbib3.html

Holocaust Survivors
Survivors' stories, pictures, audio files and a bibliography.
url: http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/

Human Rights Watch
An independent, nongovernmental organization, whose aim is to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime. The HRW regularly issues bulletins on human rights abuses and produce reports based on eyewitness accounts.
url: http://www.hrw.org/index.html

Simon Wiesenthal Center
An international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach and social action. As well as the commercial activities, it does provide online resources and bibliographies.
url: http://www.wiesenthal.com/

Society for Threatened Peoples
A nonprofit human rights organization to promote the rights of religious and ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples. The Society has consultative status as NGO at the United Nations (ECOSOC). The site contains press releases, documents and statements.
url: http://www.gfbv.de/index.php?change_lang=english

USHMM: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The site contains online exhibits, a catalogue of the collection, personal histories, images and a link to the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies.
url: http://www.ushmm.org/

PRINTED RESOURCES

Atlases and Chronologies
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Bibliographies and indexes
Audiovisual material

Atlases and Chronologies

The Dent Atlas of the Holocaust.
Martin Gilbert.
2nd ed. London: Dent, 1993.
Fisher Special Reserve 940.5315039 3 A

Historical Atlas of the Holocaust.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
New York: MacMillan Pub., c1996.
Fisher Research 940.5318 75

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of genocide.
Israel W. Charny, editor in chief
Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1999. 2 vols.
Fisher Reference 364.15103 1

Encyclopedia of the Holocaust.
Israel Gutman, editor in chief.
New York: Macmillan Pub. Co., c1990. 4 vols.
Fisher Reference 940.531803 1

History of the Holocaust: a handbook and dictionary.
Abraham J. Edelheit and Hershel Edelheit.
Boulder: Westview Press, 1994.
Fisher Research 940.5318 59

Bibliographies and indexes

European war crimes trials: a bibliography.
Compiled and annotated by Inge S. Neumann.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978, c1951.
Law Research 016.34169 2

First-person accounts of genocidal acts committed in the twentieth century: an annotated bibliography.
Samuel Totten.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
Fisher Research 016.90982 3

Genocide: a critical bibliographic review
Israel W. Charny, ed; contributing editors, Alan L. Berger ... [et al.]
London: Mansell, 1988-, 2 vols.
Fisher Ref 016.364151 1

Guide to unpublished materials of the holocaust period.
Edited by Jacob Robinson and Yehuda Bauer.
Jerusalem, Hebrew University, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, 1970-81 vols 2-6.
Fisher Research 940.531503 26

The Holocaust: an annotated bibliography.
Harry James Cargas.
2nd ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1985.
Fisher Reference 016.9405315 2

The Holocaust: selected documents in eighteen volumes.
John Mendelsohn, editor; Donald S.Detwiler, advisory editor.
New York: Garland Pub., 1982.
Fisher Research 940.5318 138

Index of articles on Jewish studies (RAMBI).
Jerusalem: Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, 1969+
Fisher Ref 915.693016 4

Index to Jewish periodicals.
Cleveland Heights, Ohio: Index to Jewish Periodicals, 1964+
Fisher Ref 915.693016 3

War crimes, war criminals, and war crimes trials: an annotated bibliography and
source book.
Compiled and edited by Norman E.Tutorow.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.
Fisher Reference 016.34169 4

Audiovisual material

Cambodian genocide data bases [computer file]
Cambodian Genocide Program.
CGDB version 1.2, expanded and updated.
Sydney: University of New South Wales, School of Information Systems, Technology and Management, 1999.
Fisher AV 959.6042 2 A

The final solution [videorecording].
Research, Charles Bloomberg ... [et al.]; written and directed by Michael Darlow; associate producer, Jerome Kuehl.
[England?]: HBO Video, c1975. 4 vols.
v.1 The seeds of hatred 1939-1941 -- v.2 Repression and resettlement 1939-1941 -- v.3 The last journey 1941-1942 -- v.4 Hell on Earth.
Fisher AV Reserve 940.5318 141

Yad Vashem archives of the destruction [microfiche]: a photographic record of the Holocaust.
Jerusalem: Yad Vashem Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority; Tel Aviv: Distributed by Microfilm and Telecommunications, c1981.
Microfiche only, not photographs.
Fisher AV Microform 940.5405 12