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Judaism & Anti-Semitism before the 19th Century

Compilation of several primary sources. Topics include: historical anti-Semitism; Nazi anti-Semitism; Anti-Semitic policies and actions; occupation, expulsions, resettlement and ghettos; Final Solution; and responses, liberation and justice
From Alpha History
(400-1957; English translations)
  • Historical Anti Semitism in Europe
The York Massacre, as Described by Ephraim of Bonn
The Persecution of Jews
Martin Luther - “The Jews & Their Lies”
Mantagu Memo on the Anti-Semitism of the British Government
Anti-Semitic Legends of Europe
From the Jewish Virtual Library
(1189-1917; English translation)
An international project virtually reuniting YIVO’s prewar library and archival collections located in New York City and Vilnius, Lithuania.
Millions of digitized pages of materials that survived the Holocaust in a Catholic church basement In Vilnius.
Excellent sources for the study of Eastern European Jewry.
A joint project of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the Lithuanian Central State Archives, the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, and the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences.
(Various types of artifacts and documents in Yiddish, Hebrew and various European languages; English-language interface)
By Albert of Aix and Ekkehard of Aura, on the First Crusade.
From the Internet History Sourcebook
(12th century, English translation)
Gateway to the institute's digital collection, artifacts documenting German-speaking Jewry in the modern era.
Basic and advanced search capabilities, along with browse options.
(16th - 21st centuries; archival materials, memoirs and manuscripts, art and objects, books and periodicals, photographs, and audio recordings).
Access to facsimiles of German-Jewish periodicals from the Enlightenment until the Third Reich.
Digitized by various German institutions with support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
(18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries; facsimiles and some explanatory comments)

Leading up to World War II (1800-1932)

Original manuscripts on campaigns to stop the Holocaust, the Dreyfus affair, anti-Semitic proclamations, Palestine, and correspondence with figures such as Albert Einstein and Abraham Lincoln.
In cooperation with Shapell
(1848-1967; German, French and English facsimiles; photographs)
Communications from the Association for the Defense of Anti-Semitism
Reports about anti-Semitic incidents and the socio-political climate as well as narratives from Jewish life and anti-Semitic statements by public figures.
Digitale Bibliothek - Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum
(1891-1933; facsimile images of documents; German transcription)
In cooperation with the Google Cultural Institute.
(1900-1959; facsimile images of documents)
A hateful book which helped fan the flames of antisemitism based on the fabricated idea that Jews planned to take over the world.
(1903; facsimile in English)
Compilation of interviews by Ambleside Oral History Group, written by Jane Renouf.
First-hand accounts about life before and during the Holocaust. Topics discussed include: farm life, school, leisure, WWI, and WWII.
"originally published in weekly parts by the Westmorland Gazette in 1987."
(20th century, published in 1987; English transcription)
(German facsimiles)
Digitized collection of letters, certificates, photographs, identification cards, etc
(1920s-1997; facsimiles and photos)
German witnesses recall the Shoah, events leading up to it and consequences following it.
- from the main page, click on "Themen" and from there to "Holocaust."
(1930-1990; German-language video testimonies)

The Holocaust (1933-1945)

Oral interviews with Holocaust survivors.
Browse and search the interviews here.
(1933-1945; video, English audio and transcriptions)
Date-specific chronology of major events of the Holocaust, with links to over 150 photos and text.
(1933-1945)
Dedicated to making audio-visual interviews with survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides a compelling voice for education and action.
See 70 Stories of Auschwitz
Also The 1936 Berlin Olympics
From the Shoah Foundation
(English, Slovak, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Hungarina, Czech, French; film)
Principal distinguishing badges worn by prisoners in Dachau concentration camp.
From Berben, Paul, Dachau: The Official History, 1933-1945, (Munich: Lipp GmbH, 1968), pp. 226-227.
Available online through the Jewish Virtual Library.
(1933-1945; English interface)
Anti-Jewish laws enacted during the Third Reich.
(1933 - 1941; German transcriptions )
From the FDR Presidential Library and Museum
(1933-1945; facsimiles; English interface)
Browse and Search here.
(1933-1945; Dutch interface)
Use right-hand menu to navigate through related documents and images from Nazi death camps in Poland.
(1933-1945; English interface, German facsimiles)
Selection of documents about the pre-war camps, drawn from various archives and libraries.
(1933-1939; facsimiles and translations)
Links to documents, images, and films relating to the Holocaust.
Use navigation on left-hand side to browse offerings.
Includes Nazi propaganda gallery, SS Documents, and Wannsee Conference documents.
(1933-1945; images, German facsimiles, English interface)
The Nazis targeted Jehovah's Witnesses because they were unwilling to accept the authority of the state, because of their international connections, and because they were strongly opposed to both war on behalf of a temporal authority and organized government in matters of conscience.
(English)
This paper gave Jehovah's Witnesses the chance to denounce their faith.
Other Holocaust facsimiles available here
(German facsimile with English translation)
Oral histories to preserve the firsthand accounts of people who had witnessed genocide. Over 230 digitized testimonies.
(English; films)
Sources are grouped by several topic such as the rise of Nazis, race science, Kristallnacht, and camps. With the collections are translations of Nazi laws, survivor and liberator papers, and many other primary documents.
(English)
Search the database by name of Holocaust victim.
Full text search also available.
Biographies of victims from first-hand accounts.
Ability to add known details about the victim.
(1933-1945; photos, German interface)
Includes a letter from General Eisenhower after visiting to an internment camp, reports of German atrocities, telegrams, Hitler's private will, papers regarding the needs of displaced persons, etc.
(facsimiles; English, German)
Oral accounts from Mauthausen Concentration Camp Holocaust survivors in video format.
Main site found here.
Online exhibition with photographs and facsimiles from the concentration camp.
(1938-1943; video with German audio, German closed captions)
Interviews giving first-hand accounts of Kristallnacht from Vienna residents.
(9 November 1938; English translations)
Images and documents from the Harrison Fordman Collection.
Browse the collection or use the advanced search.
Project sponsored by the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Libraries - Digital Collections.
Collections of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
(1939-1945; transcriptions and translations)
Selected and prepared by the United Nations War Crimes Commission in 15 volumes (1947-1949)
Although situated in a gray area between primary documentation and commentary, these volumes provide handy summaries for proceedings of the Nuremberg and Tokyo International Military Tribunals.
(1939-1945; transcriptions and commentaries)
Searchable database of names and biographical details of Holocaust victims.
Includes advanced search option.
(1939-1945; English interface)
Searchable database titled "Righteous Among the Nations."
Options to search by rescuer or by the person rescued.
(1939-1945; English interface)
Follows the lives of five Holocaust survivors... In addition to first-person video testimonies, the exhibit includes an interactive map, a glossary, photographs and biographical profiles.
(English)
Photographs relating to the Holocaust, claims to be the largest collection of its kind in the world.
Searchable database.
(1939-1945; photographs, English interface)
From the archives of the BBC.
(1939-1945; audio and video files)
Includes facsimiles of visas, passports, a passenger manifest, and a typed-first hand account of one Jewish woman's escape from Nazi Germany to Reading, Pennsylvania.
(1939; English account)
Forward and Executive Summary to the Preliminary Study
From the U.S. State Department.
(1939-present; transcriptions)
Includes documents and further links.
From the U.S. State Department.
(1939-present; transcriptions)
British families [agreed] to “host” children from Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic through a program known as Kindertransport...An estimated 10,000 refugee children, most of them Jewish, were housed in the United Kingdom during the war.
From USC Shoah Foundation
(film)
Digitized archives of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC).
Documenting the JDC's rescue and relief efforts during and after the Holocaust.
Especially useful for searching Holocaust survivor names.
(1940s - 1960s; photograph collections by country of emigration, searchable database of facsimile documents)
Bladeren door de erelijst
Search
About the project.
Includes birth and death years, place of death.
(1940-1945; Dutch interface)
(1 December, 1941; English translation of German original)
(31 July 1941; English translation)
The top secret minutes of the meeting held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee
to find a "final solution" to the "Jewish Question."
(January 20, 1942; German transcription)
Source: Yale Law School: The Avalon Project
German facsimile
(20 Janurary, 1942; English Translation)
"In his affadavit submitted at the Nuremberg Trials, SS-Hauptsturmführer Dieter Wisliceny — a deputy of Adolf Eichmann involved in the Final Solution — submitted the following testimony regarding Aktion 1005."
To see several other "Nazi statements and quotes," as well as "reactions" regarding the Final Solution, visit the left sidebar here.
(English translation; 5 October 1942)
The following extracts are taken from the diary of Anne Frank between 1942 and 1944, when she lived in hiding in Amsterdam with her family.
From Alpha History
(1942-1944; English transcription)
(English translation; 4 October 1943)
Photos of a high-ranking Nazi at Auschwitz (Adjutant Karl Hoecker/Höcker)
On the website of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
(1944-1945; 116 photographs, video documentary, podcast interview and commentary)
A digitized copy of the list created by Oskar Schindler that saved around 800 Jewish workers.
Copy held in the State Library of New South Wales
(18 April 1945; scalable facsimiles)
This website features interviews, documentaries and photos of the Holocaust and of survivors
Remember.org
(English)
Featuring online exhibits with hundreds of Holocaust primary documents, as well as photo archives, victim name databases, and much more.
(English)
Shoah and Holocaust Site in German with documents and commentary
(German transcriptions)
Holocaust Memorial Day is marked on the 27th January every year. These collection of films help to remember the horrors of the Holocaust.
Compiled by British Pathe
(videos; English interface)
List of sources include official statements by Nazis, Holocaust survivor testimonies, and reports.
(English translations)
(English)
  • The Destruction of Hungarian Jewry: A Documentary Account
Volume One
Volume Two
A large collection of official and unofficial records and sources digitized by the Hathi Trust Digital Library.
(Facsimiles in German, Hungarian and English).
Archive of contemporary worldwide newspaper reports on the Jews, especially during WWII
(English translations)
Rules of conduct which were printed in every German soldier's paybook.
From Lord Russell of Liverpool, C.B.E., M.S. The Scourge of the Swastika: A Short History of Nazi War Crimes, (New York: Ballantine Books, 1957), pp. 239-240.
Available online through Jewish Virtual Library.
(English translation)
Oral testimonies, interview texts, profiles and biographies.
Interviews undertaken by David Boder in 1946.
Provided by the Illinois Institute of Technology.
(Transcriptions, translations and audio files)
Personal oral testimonies of Jewish men and women who came to live in Britain.
Provided by the British Library.
(Transcriptions and audio files)
Includes interviews of both Jewish concentration camp survivors and SS guards, as well as documentaries with actual footage.
From the Nazi Concentration Camps website
Video testimonies of Holocaust survivors.
Provided by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
(Video files and transcriptions)
Video and audio testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses.
Provided by the Yale University Library.
(Excerpts from video and audio [Quicktime & .au] files)
367 documents including letters from the Jewish underground, governmental orders, battle diaries, etc.
From Yad Vashem
(English translations)
302 firsthand accounts of the Holocaust
From Yad Vashem
(English translations)
Eyewitness accounts from all across Europe
From Yad Vashem
(English translations)
The following are testimonies of living individuals who were subjected to Nazi medical experiments and who were identified by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference).
(English)
(Online documents, maps, facsimile images, chronologies)
From Hebrew University
(Facsimiles, transcriptions and English translations)
From A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust.
(English translations)
A number of online, theme-oriented Shoah exhibitions.
From Yad Vashem and other museums in cooperation with the Google Cultural Institute.
(Photographs, facsimile images of documents and other]
Archival and contemporary Holocaust-related photographs.
(photographs and commentaries)
(Facsimiles)
A Jew and a medical doctor, the Auschwitz prisoner Miklos Nyiszli - No. A8450 - was spared death for a grimmer fate: to perform autopsies and 'scientific research' on his fellow inmates at Auschwitz.
(English translation)

After the War (1945-present)

Eyewitness accounts of the liberation of concentration camps
(English)
British forces arrived at Belsen on 15th April 1945. Belsen had never been a death-camp, but it was still a place of unbelievable horrors and brutality....These documents record what the soldiers found, and how they responded.
(1945; English facsimiles and photographs)
These recordings are powerful personal accounts of the Holocaust from Jewish survivors living in Britain. This collection contains interviews from two oral history projects.
(English)
From his experience in Germany during the last weeks of World War II and the ensuing months, including photographs taken of the Ohrdruf concentration camp and of Holocaust survivors... correspondence...[and] materials related to Plotkin’s volunteer work as a Holocaust educator and some material from his involvement with Allied Services, a rehabilitation hospital.
(1945; English)
Presented by the Library of Congress
(1945-1949; transcriptions and summaries in print)
Documents from and about the proceedings as collected in the Avalon Project.
(Transcriptions and translations)
A searchable database of transcripts digitized by Harvard Law School
(German and English-language facsimiles, transcriptions, and translations)
In commemoration of the Doctor's Trial's fiftieth anniversary, the USHMM presents excerpts from the official trial record, with accompanying photographs.
German-language version of official documents and materials from the Nuremberg Trials.
(14 November 1945 - 1 October 1946; transcriptions)
(1937-1949; German transcriptions)
Documents from the personal archive of General William J. Donovan, special assistant to the U.S. chief of counsel during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.
A joint and ongoing project of the Cornell Law Library and the Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion.
(1945-46; facsimiles, transcriptions and commentaries)
Photographs and firsthand accounts relating to the infamous Nazi
(English)
An Austrian concentration camp
(1945)
  • Foreign relations between Germany and the US
Documents from US State Department and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
US interest in relief and rescue of Jews and security detainees in Germany and German-occupied territory, 1945
(1945; English transcriptions)
(9 December 1948, transcription)
"Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate, Elie Wiesel, gave this impassioned speech in the East Room of the White House on April 12, 1999, as part of the Millennium Lecture series, hosted by President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton."
(Speech of 12 April 1999; English audio and transcription)
  • Seeing the Other Side: 60 Years after Buchenwald
Part I
Part II
Online documentary by Mona Weissmark with some psychological insights on hate, heroism, and reconciliation.
(15 minute video)
Transcripts and judgement of the trial:
David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt.
A project of Emory University's Witness to the Holocaust Program
(2000; transcriptions, commentary and background)

Virtual Exhibitions

Learn about the personal stories of those who survived -- or perpetrated -- the Holocaust.
(English; film and photographs)
With detailed essays, interspersed with Sala Garncarz Kirschner's letters and other primary documents.
A project of New York Public Library.
(1939-1945; letters, images, summaries and essays)
Documentation for an online exhibition of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
(1933-1945; documents, photographs, videos, objects)
Scores of online exhibitions on various subjects regarding the Holocaust.
Documents and images interspersed throughout the commentary.
(1933-1945; commentary, transcriptions, images and facsimiles)
During the war, the Nazi regime tightened the law: from that moment on homosexuality was regarded as a popular threat. View the divergent experiences of 5 men and 1 woman. Their stories symbolize those of many.
(Dutch)
Exhibition opens with music.
The genocide of Sinti and Roma during the Nazi period is not widely known. Throughout Europe they were arrested, deported and murdered. Many were forced to do hard labour in camps and ghettos. Hundreds of thousands of Sinti and Roma died. Over half of the victims were younger than 14. Here, nine children speak on behalf of the murdered masses.
(photos; English, Dutch, German, Czech, Polish, Croatian, Hungarian, Romanian)


Other Collections

Online Holocaust records of victims and survivors.
Provided gratis by Arolsen Archives, USC Shoah Foundation and Ancestry.com.
(Database searchable by names, dates and events)
Complete Holocaust memorial books digitized by New York Public Library.
Around 700 postwar Yizkor books.
(Facsimiles)
A vital resource for the documentation and exploration of the Jewish experience, featuring a variety of digital objects, including rare books, children’s books, personal letters, official decrees, maps, memoirs, posters, photographs, scrapbooks, oral histories, finding aids, dissertations, and much more.
(English)
A digital source edition.
Published by Institüt für die Geschichte der Deutschen Juden
(English interface; facsimiles)
Database of interviews with Jewish people from Germany.
Includes facsimiles of official documents.
Explore the database by family name, city.
Advanced search here.
(photos, German transcriptions, German, Russian, English facsimiles)
"Anything you need to know from Anti-Semitism to Zionism."
(English)
A DigiBaeck search will only return results for objects and collections that have been digitized, but this includes nearly all the unique and rare materials in LBI collections.
(English)
International Research Portal for Records Related to Nazi-Era Cultural Property
In cooperation with the National Archives
This NARA finding guide leads to primary and secondary documentation
including recently declassified information.
A small collection of primary sources includes digitized facsimiles.
(English)

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