RECOMMENDED GENERAL SOURCES
- The Cybrary of the Holocaust is an invaluable collection of resources for Holocaust education.
- The Nizkor Project is a vast collection of Holocaust documents. Most are available only by FTP from the Shofar Archives, but these are being gradually converted to Web pages.
- The Holocaust/Shoah Page by Ben S. Austin includes sections on the Nuremberg Laws, the Final Solution, Homosexuals, and the Nuremberg Trials, among others.
- About.com offers links to other Holocaust sites, current events items, and a weekly electronic newsletter.
- Women and the Holocaust: A Cyberspace of Their Own is an excellent collection of articles dealing with often overlooked gender-specific issues of the Holocaust.
VICTIMS
- Anne Frank’s life and times are portrayed at this site. Currently a photo scrapbook and the story of her journal are online.
- Children of the Holocaust are documented by the Anti-Defamation League.
- Jewish women as double victims in a misogynist, racist society is the subject of this essay.
- Handicapped persons were the victims of the T-4 Euthanasia Program, a Nazi plan to kill physically and mentally disabled people.
- The Handicapped. More information on the T4 and 14f13 killing projects.
- Handicapped persons and the euthanasia program are also discussed on this page at “The History Place.”
- Gypsies and the Nazis’ policy toward them are discussed at this site.
- Gypsy mistreatment and murder in the Third Reich.
- Gypsy extermination in the Third Reich.
- Gypsy legal status in the Third Reich.
- Homosexuals and their treatment in Germany both before and during the Third Reich are discussed at this site.
- Homosexuals were subject to torture in the concentration camps as described in excerpts from this book edited by Vera Laska.
- The Five Million Forgotten non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust are remembered at this site.
- Reinhard Heydrich’s biography is available at “The History Place.”
- Rudolf Hess’ biography is also available from “The History Place.”
- Adolf Hitler’s early life is examined at this site.
- Adolf Hitler’s use of language is discussed in a paper at this site.
- The Einsatzgruppen are discussed in detail at this page.
- Einsatzgruppen documents are posted at this site.
- Operation Reinhard: A Layman’s Guide to Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, part 1 by Kenneth N. McVay. Continued in part 2.
- Kristallnacht is the topic at this page by Ben S. Austin.
RESCUERS
- Joseph Andre was a Belgian abbot who helped rescue hundreds of Jewish children and encouraged them to remain in the Jewish faith.
- Germaine Belline and Liliane Gaffney explain how they hid 30 Jews in Belgium.
- Ivan Beltrami was able to use his position as an intern to protect Jews in a hospital infirmary.
- Esther Bem relates how she and her family were hidden in an Italian village.
- Marie Benoit was a French Capuchin monk who arranged for the rescue of thousands of Jews.
- Bert Bochove describes at length how he and his wife Annie saved the lives of many Jews in Holland during the war.
S. J. Tagliareni 