• The role of Propaganda for the Nazi's From The Simon Wiesenthal Center
• From the lecture series by Prof Rempel
  • Chronology of Holocaust
  • Introduction to Holocaust
  • Holocaust Origins
  • Wannsee Conference 
  • The Question of Guilt
  • Defeat and Chaos
• Der Stürmer Details  about Julius Streicher's anti-Semitic newspaper, Der Stürmer. Click for a selection of Sturmer cartoons
• Antisemitic images The Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance
• Nuremberg laws The wording in translation
• The Tragedy of the S.S. St. Louis The story of how over 900 Jews attempted to escape from Nazi Germany to Cuba in 1939
• Emigration From Germany Small but interesting site to Jewish emigration out of nazi Germany. Good visuals including images of the passes issued by the nazi authorities for would be emigrants.
• The Madagascar Plan  The Nazi plan to move Europe's Jews to the African island of Madagascar
• The Yellow Jewish Badge The history of the armbands and yellow Stars of David which labelled the Jews.
• Academic antisemitism: the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen and the Jews by Tim Grady, (winner of 2001 History today dissertation award). looks at university compliance with anti semitic laws. §

The Final Solution

• Text of the Wannsee Protocol This site has the minutes of the meeting between Nazi officials on January 20, 1942 where they discussed the process of the Final Solution.
• World War II and Holocaust Photographs from the Simon Wiesenthal Center An alphabetical listing of the photograph categories available from the Simon Wiesenthal Center's online encyclopedia.
• Holocaust Glossary Are you confused about some of the terms relating to the Holocaust? Since the Holocaust vocabulary was formulated from many different languages, understanding these terms can be difficult. Here's a glossary to help you.
• Holocaust Memorial Museum New York   This lavish site provides a mass of information as well as temporary web "exhibitions". The downside is the time many pages take to load......
• Remember.org Vast site of resources including witness accounts and Virtual Tours of Auschwitz and Birkenau Camps This sounds exploitive, but is actually presented in a sober and instructive way.
• Shoa.de: For German speakers: excellent site to all aspects of the Holocaust.
• Lodz Ghetto  Throughout Europe, Jews were crowded into ghettos before being systematically murdered in the death camps. Follow the history of the ghetto in Lodz, Poland.
• Galicia Jewish Museum Site of the Krakow museum which exists to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust & to celebrate the Jewish culture of Galicia.
• Anne Frank House. Well presented. Choose your language (click on top right of the opened page)
• Josef Mengele site with a focus on his victims and life.  §
• Nazi Gold, Jewish Accounts, and Swiss Banks For several months, the controversy over Switzerland's role in World War II has raged in the media, among people, and between nations.

• Holocaust Poetry The Forgotten Victims of the Holocaust Homosexuals, Gypsies (Roma), the disabled and others were also persecuted during the Third Reich.
• The Nazi persecution of Homosexuals A small site, with bibliography
• Nazi persecution of Homosexuals. Very detailed site from US Holocaust Museum.

• Klemperer diaries. Three sites of interest:
  • Extracts from the Klemperer diaries §
  • Surviving the Firestorm English language article with extracts and facsimiles outlining the survival of the diaries. From Der Spiegel
  • The Diaries of Victor Klemperer: discussion by Susie Ehrmann, Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre, Melbourne Australia. She explores two key questions. Firstly, she asks why did many German Jews hesitate for so long, too long, before leaving? They had the luxury of six years, from 1933 to 1939 and even up to 1941, before all doors closed. Why did approximately one-third wait and perish? Secondly, she uses Klemperer's observations to assess Goldhagen’s thesis that German civilian society was deeply, and uniformly, and virulently anti-Semitic throughout the 1930’s. §

• Anne Frank (1929-1945)  A young girl who hid from the Nazis during the Holocaust, Anne Frank has touched many who have read her famous diary. This is a page with links to many Anne Frank materials.
• Anne Frank Channel See the only existing film footage of Anne Frank, made during the wedding of her neighbour on 22 July 1941. Anne Frank is seen briefly leaning out of the upstairs window of her house in Amsterdam to get a good look at the bride and groom. It is the only time Anne Frank has ever been captured on film.
• Personal histories from New York Holocaust Museum. Well set out in a theme wall
• Auschwitz survivors, 60 Years on. Witness accounts from the Guardian Review of (Jewish & non Jewish) survivors today (Jan 2005). Puts a real human dimension and context to the history. Click for each account:
  • Maria and Alec Ossowski Polish resistance fighters tell their story.
  • Trude Levi Story of a Hungarian Jew.
  • Leon Greenman The first thing you notice about Leon Greenman's large but shabby terraced house in Ilford is that it has mesh shutters. He had them put up 10 years ago, soon after the National Front threw bricks through the windows.....
  • Barbara Stimler now lives in an immaculate bungalow in Stanmore, north London. "All my life I wanted to have a nice home," she says, "because I lost my home when I was 12 years old."
  • Anita Lasker Wallfisch is a cellist. Music is her life; music also saved her life: she played in the women's orchestra in Auschwitz.
  • Mayer Hersh a Polish Jew, is 78. After the war, he settled in Manchester and worked as a tailor, a high-class tailor.

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