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From this web site you can find out about the news and mission of the group and browse its archives dating back to 1995. Of particular note are the two sections of resources on finding relatives and entering claims for reparations.

“The World Jewish Congress (WJC) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), established aboutholocaust.org with the goal of providing young people with essential information about the history of the Holocaust and its legacy. The interactive online tool includes a range of content — facts that all students should know, video testimonies of survivors, and the latest news updates about Holocaust educational programs and activities — all designed to address misinformation that circulates across social media and other internet forums.”

Fouded by Elie Kleinman, the goal of this museum in Brooklyn, New York is to present the Shoah to Orthodox Jews.

Located in Brooklyn, New York, “The museum’s mission is to present the victim experience, with special emphasis on the perspectives of observant Jewish communities.“ In addition to information about the collection and the museum's events, there is a searchable database of archives.

In German, English and Dutch, this site provides information about the house in Amsterdam where Anne Frank hid and her diary.

Sponsored by the Anne Frank Center of the United States, this site provides information about the life and times of Anne Frank as well as information on the organization.

You can search this collection of 22,000 documents and photos from this California museum and obtain digitized versions of the material.

The database contains a comprehensive collection of documents from concentration camps, including prisoner cards and death notices. The more than 13 million documents featuring information on over 2.2 million people persecuted by the Nazi Regime

Searchable database of 370 organizations worldwide that deal with the Shoah.

This site in English, Ukrainian and Russian is for the the first modern Holocaust museum in Eastern Europe. It brings together together a museum, research institutes, a library, an archive and an online multimedia platform to document the murder of the Jews of Ukraine during the Shoah.

Begun by Mary Mark, this is a lengthy hypertext bibliography of books by and about rescuers. These bibliographies were originally compiled by Mary Mark, who maintained them until November 2000. They are now being maintained by Mark Klempner.

The "Bricha" movement operated in Europe from the end of World War II until the establishment of the State of Israel, and was responsible for the smuggling of some three hundred thousand Holocaust survivors from Eastern Europe to Israel. The site provides resources about the history of the organization.

This site in Hungarian and English provides information about the museum's programs and collections documenting the fate of the Jews of Hungary during the Shoah.

C.A.N.D.L.E.S. which stands for Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors, is Indiana's only Holocaust museum.

This extraordinary, searchable database has compiled the names of more than 3 million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis. The names are compiled from Pages of Testimony (forms with biographical data on victims submitted by family, friends, and acquaintances), which have been gathered since the 1950s as well as from lists of names compiled for a variety of purposes by the Nazis and other entities in Europe during and after WWII.

This site provides artistic and educational materials related to education about the Shoah.

This site in Danish provides information about the Jews from Denmark and their communities who were caught and deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp.

“The Center is setting up a data base on the internet that will be available to the general public and researchers and will enable them to obtain information through thousands of indexed documents from archives in Israel and abroad on North-African Jewry during World War II.” From Yad Yitzchak Ben Zvi.

Early testimonies of Jewish witnesses and survivors taken before the 1960s. All documents include transcriptions in the original language as well as a translation into English. You can search the collection or browse by archive.

From the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies comes this full text searchable encyclopedia of articles about people and events related to how the United States responded to the Shoah.

From the Memorial de la Shoah in Paris, France comes this multimedia encyclopedia of the Holocaust with entries in French.

The portal is part of the EHRI project and contains information on Holocaust-related material from an extensive list of archives across Europe and beyond. Users can search the portal by keyword or using advanced search field options. 

“The Information Portal to European Sites of Remembrance is a project of the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. It is part of the exhibition of the Information Centre under the Field of Stelea of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin.” By clicking on sites on the interactive map, you can obtain information about the various sites.

Map of sites investigated by Yahad-in-Unum. When you iinput a site, you see it on the map and are given access to recordings of witnesses to the executions.

This site for the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah “supports projects expanding knowledge about the Shoah; provides assistance to survivors in need; encourages the transmission of Jewish culture; and combats anti-Semitism by facilitating intercultural dialogue.” The site is available in French and English.

This collection of over 4,000 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust is housed at Yale University. Excerpts from the testimonies are provided and the archive is searchable.

Created by Daniel Patt, this site uses facial recognition to allow you to scan through photos from prewar Europe and the Holocaust, linking them to people living today.

This museum located in Kibbutz Lochamei Hagetaot in Israel has an English and Hebrew site. Of particular note are the database of material on the life and writings of Janusz Korczak,the famous Polish educator who perished with the orphans he cared for in the Warsaw Ghetto, and the biographies of partisan fighters.

Official web page of the Hannah Senesh Legacy Foundation,this site tells the story of this World War II heroine and offers photographs, samples of her poetry, and material from her diaries.

Searchable database in English and Lithuanian about sites related to the Shoah in Lithuania.

This full text book provides an indepth time table of the Holocaust. You can browse by year and read about significant events of that year.

This huge, searchable database of stories and information about looted materials and concentration camps is a collaboration between the National Archives and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Created by the US Holocaust and Memorial Museum, this extensive work is searchable by keyword and browsable by topic.

In partnership with the University of Huddersfield, this site includes stories and videos from survivors of the Shoah and learning materials for schools.

Part of the Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art, this database “has been created to collect and preserve digital documentation about Holocaust memorial monuments worldwide, including standardized mapping, photography, description, and historical research. It also includes a growing bibliography on Holocaust and memorial monuments.”

The site provides details about the activities, collections, and exhibits of this museum in Houston dedicated to the Shoah.

Housed at the Hebrew University, this collection contains testimonies going back to the 1960s. Among the 10,000 interviews are those with key individuals involved in the Zionist movement, and other organizations such as the United Jewish Appeal, as well as with men and women who grew up under the British mandate in Palestine, under Communist regimes in Eastern Europe, or in various Jewish communities throughout the world. The site is browsable by subject and searchable.

The aim of H.E.A.R.T (The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team) founded by Carmelo Lisciotto and Chris Webb is to inform and educate people about the Holocaust and the extermination programs conducted by the Nazi regime throughout Europe during the Second World War.”

Pioneered by Dr. Saul Friedman, this is a collection of 50 interviews of those who survived the Shoah that is browsable by name.

This site provides personal testimony from survivors through audio clips, transcripts, and photographs, along with a timeline of Jewish history and persecution, an encyclopedia, and primary documents.

This searchable site is maintained by the Holocaust Education Foundation and provides links to and information about lesson plans and annotated bibliographies of material related to the teaching of the Shoah.

The Holocaust Victims and Document Database [Databáze Obětí a Databáze Dokumentů] in English, Czech and German is a part of the holocaust.cz portal that provides an extensive database of digitised archival documents of the names and fates of victims of Nazi racial persecution who were deported from the territory of today’s Czech Republic. The database contains brief information about all the prisoners of the Terezín ghetto (Theresienstadt) deported from the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark, Slovakia and those who arrived in Terezín in the last days of the war with death marches (the so-called evacuation transports). There is also information about those who were deported from the Czech lands to Lodz, Auschwitz, Minsk and Ujazdów or imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp, as well as the names and basic information on those imprisoned in the so-called "Gypsy Camp I" in Lety near Písek, most of whom were Roma or Sinti. The public part of the Victims' Database contains information on almost 125,000 people and their fate, 140,000 authentic digitised documents and 30,000 portrait photographs.

Part of the permanent exhibition at the Information Centre of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, this site in English and German provides access to information about a selection of memorials and museums in Europe about the Shoah. You can search the database, browse the alphabetical index or click on a country on the map.

This site digitizes “What is left of the card index of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany (Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland) compriseing 32,264 registration cards, primarily those of Jewish school pupils, emigrants and deceased persons.” You can search by keyword and browse by name and place.

“The Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project’s goal is the creation of a comprehensive listing of all Jewish-owned cultural objects plundered by the Nazis and their allies from the time of their spoliation to the present.” The site will provide information about European Jewish art.

This site describes the programs and speakers bureau of this group dedicated to supporting Holocaust rescuers. Stories of moral courage are highlighted, and you can purchase books on rescuers, the Holocaust, and Anne Frank through the sites link with Amazon.com.

This site details the story of Jews who escaped from the ghettos, became partisans, and fought the Nazis. The foundation is collecting archival material and oral histories from former partisans and has produced a documentary film about them.

Created by the Organization of Partizans, Underground and Ghetto Fighters, this site in Hebrew and English provides primary source material about Jewish resistance to the Nazis in the ghettos, forests, and concentration camps. The site is searchable by keyword and browsable by subject.

Collected by the British Library, “these recordings are powerful personal accounts of the Holocaust from Jewish survivors living in Britain. This collection contains interviews from two oral history projects, the Living Memory of the Jewish Community and the Holocaust Survivors Centre Interviews.”

http://www.en.jrj.co.il/BRPortal/br/P102.jsp?arc=1998525

"The Kindertransport Association (KTA) is a not-for-profit organization of child holocaust survivors who were sent, without their parents, out of Austria, Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia to Great Britain." Contact information is given for regional chapters and affiliated organizations; there are also memoirs and links to related sites.

This browsable and searchable bibliography of literature related to the Shoah is maintained by Al Filreis at the University of Pennsylvania.

From the Art Gallery of Ontario comes this collection of 4,000 images from its Henryk Ross Collection. The site is searchable and provides resources for students and teachers.

Yahad – In Unum is an organization dedicated to identifying mass Jewish execution sites and mass graves in the former Soviet Union. The organization collects forensic evidence and seeks out eyewitnesses to the executions of Jews and Roma to identify holocaust sites where the Nazis and their allies murdered Jews in towns and villages throughout Eastern Europe. If you select a red dot on the map you can read details about the site, including the number of witnesses interviewed and details and videos from eye witnesses.

The March of the Living is an international, educational program that brings Jewish teens from all over the world to Poland to retrace the death march from Auschwitz to Birkenau and then to Israel. In addition to sections for alumni and parents, there is also a chat room and an online curriculum for the program. Alumni may also participate in a virtual online conference.

“Memoria Viva is an organization focused on recovering, preserving, and disseminating the testimonies of survivors and refugees of the Holocaust who made Chile their homeland after having to escape from Europe as a result of Nazi persecution. In addition to a series of ongoing projects, they have an oral history archive that can be accessed through their "Testimonies and Digital Archives" tab which has biographical information on various survivors of the Holocaust and, when available, photos, documents, and audio or video interviews with them.”

This site in English, Polish and Chinese provides information about the museum, extensive details about the concentration camp and educational materials including lesson plans.

The Missing Identity website helps child survivors of Holocaust find information about their own past and that of their families. The site is searchable and browsable by last name and also offers profiles of the children and stories by them.

Information In English and French about this museum in Canada about the Shoah.

This site produced by the Simon Wiesenthal Center provides extensive information about the Holocaust including a detailed alphabetical index to information on individuals and specific topics, full-text articles and books, photo and map collections, bibliographies, a timeline, a glossary, teacher's resources, and frequently asked questions.

Searchable database in English and Italian of more than 7,000 Italian and foreign Jews deported from Italy and about 2,000 Italian and foreign Jews deported from the Aegean Islands. Personal data includes: surname, name, date and place of birth, surname and name of spouse (if deported), place of arrest, camp of deportation out of Italy and final fate.

Located in Nottinghamshire in England, the website of this center provides information about its activities and research on the Shoah. You can also search its library catalog.

This collection of digitized Nazi propaganda postcards collected by Barry Hoffman is housed at Clark University.

From the National Holocaust Centre & Museum in England comes this site that traces the history of the Holocaust in various parts of the world through the lives of four people.

This Hebrew and English sites provides oral histories and statistics about those Jews who fought against the Nazis.

This collection of 17,000 photographs from the YIVO archives is a visual record of pre-World War II Jewish communities. In some cases, the pictures are all that remains. Online albums document holiday observance, Yiddish writers, immigration, women's roles, and formal studio portraits. Users must register to search the full catalog.

Created by the Center for Genocide and Holocaust Studies at the University of Minnesota, this site offers information about and reproductions of stamps and coins issued in the ghettoes and concentration camps under the Nazis.

The official Raoul Wallenberg site that seeks to compile a bibliography of works about Wallenberg, and strives to educate people about his rescue work in Budapest during the Holocaust. Books are available for sale, and there is a set of relevant links provided as well.

The Refugee Family Papers Map allows you to explore and search the collection of refugee family papers in the Wiener Library by location. These documents have been donated to the library over the years by Jewish refugees and their families, who escaped Nazi persecution by emigrating from Germany and other Nazi-dominated countries before and during World War II.

This site includes a selection of handwritten diaries, photo albums, identity and emigration papers, Red Cross letters and recorded interviews from Jews who fled from the Nazis. The material comes from the Wiener Holocaust Library's archives in the UK and appears on a map.

“From the files of over 5,000 scholars who wrote to the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Scholars for help between 1933 and 1945, we identified 80 female scientists and mathematicians. Here are short biographies of each of them. “ This site is housed at Northeastern University.

Digitized collection of 2700 requests made by Jews to the Vatican for help during World War II. There is an accompanying pdf that lists the names of those making the request, so you can find the appropriate file.

This website comes from “The Institute for the Study of Rescue and Altruism in the Holocaust, a nonprofit corporation (ISRAH), an educational organization formed for the purpose of conducting research, disseminating information, promoting awareness of, and honoring groups and individuals for the rescue of Jews and other victims of the Nazis and their collaborators, 1933-1945.” You can search its database by a variety of parameters. It also has a number of timelines and a bibliography.

“This archive includes interviews conducted and materials gathered by the Center for Holocaust Awareness and Information (CHAI) of the Jewish Federation of Rochester. In addition to the resources developed by CHAI over the past 35 years, the archive includes copies of all Rochester survivor interviews filmed locally for Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the SHOAH Foundation's Visual History Project. Additionally the archive includes survivor profiles and photographs made available from Monroe Community College's Holocaust Genocide and Human Rights Project.”

This database contains about 6,000 documents from the Swedish police about Jews from Denmark who fled to Sweden. The database is housed in The Danish Jewish Museum in Copenhagen.

Information about this museum in Canada about the Shoah. Of particular interest is the ability to search the Frank and Anita Ekstein Holocaust Resource Collection.

Located in Los Angeles, California, this center monitors hate groups worldwide. There is an online exhibit from the Museum of Tolerance as well as educational material produced by the museum.

The website of the South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation provides information about the group and its events, educational programs and resources, and its centers in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg.

Since 1997 German artist Gunter Demnig has been creating memorials for individual victims of the Holocaust. The stolpersteine (stumbling blocks) are small, cobblestone-sized memorials for individual victims of Nazism. This map indicates the current locations of 35,000 of them. The site is in German.

Map of the stolpersteine or memorial cobblestones in Berlin with images of the stones.

During the 1950s researchers at The Wiener Holocaust Library in the UK gathered over 1,000 accounts from eyewitnesses to Nazi persecution and genocide. These documents are now available here, for the first time in English.

This site, which traces the move of 700 orphaned Jews to England during World War II, includes profiles of each one of the Boys, a map of the places where they were born and grew up, and pictures of all the hostels which housed them after their arrival in Britain.

The Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Collections Project is a 7-year international project to preserve, digitize, and virtually reunite YIVO’s prewar library and archival collections located in New York City and Vilnius, Lithuania, through a dedicated web portal. The project will also digitally reconstruct the historic, private Strashun Library of Vilna, one of the great prewar libraries of Europe.

Browsable collection of materials related to the Nazi troops whose mission was to round up and kill Jews. The site contains many primary source materials including the operational situation reports filed by the Nazis in this unit.

Part of the GoIsrael project, this site houses a large collection of Holocaust links arranged by category.

The Holocaust Responsa Database, one of its kind in the world, consists of a collection of halakhic questions and answers that were written during and after the Holocaust, and includes a variety of indexes and search options. Searching is in Hebrew.

“The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) is an intergovernmental body whose purpose is to place political and social leaders’ support behind the need for Holocaust education, remembrance and research both nationally and internationally. “ The site provides teaching guidelines and other instructional material for teaching about the Holocaust as well as other relevant links.

Information about the program in 1945 where Lakeland welcomed three hundred child Holocaust survivors into their community in Lake Windemere in England.

This website provides a dramatic introduction to the looting of Jewish books by the Nazis.

Searchable database in English and Lithuanian about people and organizations related to the Shoah in Lithuania.

The Memorial Book records only those who were residents of the German Reich between 1933 and 1945, according to the borders of 1937. Its contents are searchable by a variety of parameters.

Located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, HERC “teaches both students and adults the lessons learned from the Holocaust which led to the extermination of six million Jews and five million non-Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II.”

Nizkor, meaning "we will remember," is Ken McVay's major project to counter Holocaust deniers. This extensive site offers large numbers of documents dedicated to this end. There is primary source material and photos on the concentration camps, individuals of the period, revisionists, and bibliographies. Sections on the Nuremberg Trials and Holocaust organizations are also provided, as well as a review of the revisionist movement. Although the site has not been updated in a while, it is still a useful resource.

A searchable database of righteous Gentiles in Poland developed by the Museum of Polish Jewish History. The site in English and Polish includes stories, a glossary, bibliography and links to other resources.

From The POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews comes this interactive map that tells the stories of Warsaw citizens who helped the Jews in Poland during World War II. The main navigation method used to access the stories is a vintage map of the city which allows you to select these stories by neighborhood.

The University of Southern California houses Steven Spielberg's archive of more than 50,000 stories by survivors. The site provides details of the oral history project, including a break down by country of the stories origins. Links to other relevant resources are also available.

This museum in St. Louis, Missouri is dedicated to preserving the legacy of the Holocaust, educating about its causes and illustrating how what happened during this tragic period relates to our lives today.

Opened in June 2023, the goal of this museum in Canada is “to deepen the public’s knowledge and understanding while, inspiring visitors to think critically about the tragedies of the Holocaust and to make connections between the Holocaust, world events, and contemporary Canadian life.”

More than a museum, this searchable site provides a vast wealth of information about the Holocaust and the many projects and educational programs it houses.

“Western Canada's largest collection of Holocaust-related artefacts, survivor testimonies, archival materials and publications”