Web Heads!

The Holocaust is one of the most accessible historical topics on the World Wide Web, though the Web sites vary tremendously in quality. Below are some of the sites that might be of interest, along with a brief description. Please note that these pages are only listed for consultation; papers that cite URLs exclusively as source material are not particularly welcome.

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http://www.vhf.org/

Founded by Steven Spielberg in 1994, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to videotaping and archiving interviews of Holocaust survivors all over the world. Interviews are catalogued and archived using breakthrough digital technology and will be made available via on-line, interactive networks to museums, educational institutions and nonprofit organizations and through educational documentaries, books and CD-ROMs.

http://remember.org/

Cybrary of the Holocaust. Very complete, with many links and a search engine.

http://www2.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shtetl/links.html

Straightforward links to other Holocaust sites

http://www.igc.apc.org/ddickerson/holocaust.html

Another site with extensive links; recommended by the History Channel.

http://www.wiesenthal.com/

Home page of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, with links to the Holocaust, the Museum of Tolerance, Anti-Semitism, and other topics.

http://www.ushmm.org/

United State Holocaust Memorial Museum web page; images of the museum, its exhibition, as well as links to other sites.

http://www.yadvashem.org.il/

Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes Remembrance Authority; very complete museum in Israel.

http://www.auschwitz-muzeum.oswiecim.pl/

Official Site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Oświęcim, Poland.

http://www.death-camps.org/

Site dedicated to the Operation Reinhardt camps.

http://www.interlog.com/~mighty/

Women and the Holocaust site.

http://www.adl.org/

Anti-Defamation League web site. Largely oriented to current incidents of anti-Semitism and hate crimes.

http://www.israel.org/mfa/home.asp

Israeli Foreign Ministry web page (in English).

http://www.germany-info.org/

German Embassy web page with search engine.

http://www.nizkor.org/

Nizkor home page. Dedicated to combating Holocaust denial, it painstakingly answers the various mendacious arguments of the Institute for Historical Revision, as well as various other groups that try to argue "it didn’t happen."