Resources
- USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive This link opens in a new windowMore than 53,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide. The interviews have been conducted in 63 countries and 40 languages. Each collection adds context for the others, providing multiple pathways to learn from the eyewitnesses of history across time, locations, cultures, and sociopolitical circumstances. Registration is required to use the archive’s advanced features. But access is also available with “Continue as guest” login.
- Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust TestimoniesThe Fortunoff Archive currently holds more than 4,400 testimonies, which are comprised of over 12,000 recorded hours of videotape. The Fortunoff Archive and its affiliates recorded the testimonies of willing individuals with first-hand experience of the Nazi persecutions, including those who were in hiding, survivors, bystanders, resistants, and liberators. Testimonies were recorded in whatever language the witness preferred, and range in length from 30 minutes to over 40 hours (recorded over several sessions).
- Felix Posen Bibliographic Project on Antisemitism This link opens in a new windowWorks published throughout the world about antisemitism -- books, dissertations, master's theses, and articles from periodicals and collections.
- Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile, and Resettlement, 1945-1950 This link opens in a new window
Digital collection of material from the Wiener Library and the UK National Archives on refugees and resettlement of displaced persons in Europe in the aftermath of World War II.
- Prosecuting the Holocaust: British Investigations into Nazi War Crimes, 1944-1949Drawn from The National Archives (UK) and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, this collection contains a wealth of information regarding the British government's efforts to investigate and prosecute Nazi crimes during the period 1944-1949. The files include materials from the WO 309 (War Office: Judge Advocate General's Office; British Army of the Rhine War Crimes Group), WO 311 (War Office: Judge Advocate General's Office; Military Deputy's Department), and WO 235 (War Office: Judge Advocate General's Office; War Crimes Case Files) series.
- Nationalsozialismus, Holocaust, Widerstand und Exil 1933-1945 This link opens in a new windowCollection of primary sources on the history of the National Socialist state, Nazi ideology, and the Third Reich, from the perspective of both supporters and opponents of the regime. Includes administrative records, personal writings, propaganda, and biographical and reference sources. Note: most sources are in German.
- Holocaust EncyclopediaMaintained by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, it provides 850 articles and, where relevant, features items from museum’s collection, including photographs, films, and oral testimonies.
- Yad VashemYad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, located in Jerusalem, Israel, is an important source for Holocaust education, documentation, commemoration and research. Information from Yad Vashem's research arm, the International Institute for Holocaust Research is included, and many of its publications will be held in the library's print collection.
- U.S. Holocaust Memorial MuseumWebsite of the major Holocaust museum located in Washington, D.C.
- Nuremberg Trials ProjectThe Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project is an open-access initiative to create and present digitized images or full-text versions of the Library's Nuremberg documents, descriptions of each document, and general information about the trials, including trial documents, evidence files, transcripts, and photographs.
- YIVO ArchivesThe YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Archive contains 23 million documents, photographs, recordings, posters, and films. Its collections reflect the life and culture of Jews around the world and is also one of the world's foremost resources for the study of East European Jewry, Yiddish literature and language, the Holocaust, and the American Jewish immigrant experience.
- Testaments to the Holocaust. Documents and Rare Printed Materials from the Wiener Library, London This link opens in a new windowDigital edition of material from the Wiener Library collection of eyewitness accounts, photographs, propaganda, and printed material documenting Jewish life in Germany from 1933 to after the war.
