THE HOLOCAUST
The Holocaust was the systematic,
bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six
million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a
word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to
power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially
superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were "life unworthy of
life." During the era of the Holocaust, the Nazis also targeted other groups
because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Roma (Gypsies), the handicapped,
and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups
were persecuted on political and behavioral grounds, among them Communists,
Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals. (from www.ushmm.org)
LINKS
United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum Site
USHMM
Learning Center
USHMM’s
The Holocaust: A Learning Site
The
Courage to Remember (facts & photos)
Teacher’s
Guide to the Holocaust (Timeline, People)
Gallery
of Holocaust images
The
Auschwitz Album
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook
OTHER WEBSITES FOR RESEARCH
Children of the Holocaust http://www.adl.org/frames/front_children_holocaust.html
CANDLES Holocaust Museum http://www.candles-museum.com
The Holocaust History Project http://www.holocaust-history.org
Simon Wiesenthal’s Museum of Tolerance
Learning Center http://motlc.wiesenthal.org/
Cybrary of the Holocaust http://remember.org/
Timeline of the Holocaust http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/resources/education/timeline/index.html
Adolf Eichmann Trial http://www.remember.org/eichmann/study4.htm
Nuremberg Laws http://cghs.dade.k12.fl.us/holocaust/laws.htm
St Louis Online Exhibit http://www.ushmm.org/stlouis/search/index.htm
Kristallnacht Online Exhibit http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/kristallnacht/learn.htm
Oskar Schindler essay http://www.remember.org/imagine/schindler.html
Raoul Wallenberg essay http://www.remember.org/imagine/wallenberg.html
To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue
http://www.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/index.html
Auschwitz photos http://www.remember.org/jacobs/index.html
Concentration camps http://www.remember.org/camps/
Chiune Sugihara http://motlc.wiesenthal.org/exhibits/visasforlife/
Childhood in Times of war http://www.remember.org/jean/index.html
Topography of Terror: Online exhibit http://www.topographie.de/openair/e/
Nazi Propaganda Page http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/
Nizkor Project http://www.nizkor.org/
HOLOCAUST LITERATURE
