HIST 262: History of the Holocaust: The Destruction of the European Jews
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This guide is designed for History 262 and should enable the user to locate primary and secondary reources related to the destruction of the European Jews. The guide is divided into four sections:
- Home - Provides links to the subject specialist for this area and major library databases.
- Testimonies - Read and view testimonies from archives world wide.
- Search UNC - Provides search boxes for the library catalog, Articles+, and Google Scholar.
- Film & Cinema - Provides links that will allow the user to locate films and reviews.
- News & Links - Provides links to major news outlets (including coverage of the period) and to useful sites.
Library Databases
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Shoah Foundation's Visual History ArchiveThe Visual History Archive contains almost 52,000 videotaped interviews of Holocaust survivors, rescuers, and witnesses from 32 countries gathered by the Shoah Foundation between 1994 and 2005. The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education was established by Steven Spielberg, originally as a private foundation, after he completed the film Schindler's List.
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Testaments to the HolocaustThe more than 100,000 images in 'Testaments to the Holocaust' come from the Wiener Library in London, the world's oldest Holocaust memorial institution. Items are arranged in five categories: over 1,200 eyewitness accounts, about 4,000 photographs, over 400 Nazi propaganda materials, various Wiener Library publications from the 1930s to the 1960s, and the library's biographical index cards. Also included is an introduction by Ben Barkow and two essays on the Holocaust by Nikolaus Wachsmann and Dan Stone.
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Conditions and Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945Features full-text documents received in the British Foreign Office from all European states under Nazi occupation during World War II.
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Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950Collection of primary sources for the study and understanding of the challenges facing the European people in the aftermath of World War II.
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Holocaust and the Concentration Camp Trials: Prosecution of Nazi War CrimesProvides unique documents on the investigation and prosecution of war crimes committed by Nazi concentration camp commandants and camp personnel. Documents include: correspondence; trial records and transcripts; investigatory material, such as interrogation reports and trial exhibits; etc.
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Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954Based on original manuscript collections from the holdings of the American Jewish Historical Society in New York. Covers a wide range of dates and topics related to Jewish history in the US, from Early Jewish Settlements in the US through the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-20th Century.
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Index to Jewish PeriodicalsIndex to Jewish Periodicals covers over 220 journals which focus on the study of Jewish affairs and Judaism around the world. Many of the journals are not indexed in any other database.The print file (1963 - 2008), is in Davis Library Reference.
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RAMBI : Index of articles on Jewish studiesRAMBI is a selective list of scholarly articles published in journals and as part of collections of articles covering Jewish studies and Israel, based largely on the collections of the National Library of Israel.
West European Librarian & GRAS Section Head
Sarah Morris
Contact:
123 Davis Library
9199622094
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- Last Updated: Sep 22, 2020 10:45 AM
- URL: https://guides.lib.unc.edu/HIST262
