Auerbach Central Agency for Jewish Education

Holocaust Resources

Online Resources

Online Oral Testimonies of the Holocaust: Selected Web Sites

Federation of Child Survivors of the Holocaust: http://www.FJCSH.org
Click "Our Own Stories" for brief accounts, subdivided by experiences. Child survivors available for further information through e-mail.

Fortunoff Video Archives: http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/
Excerpts from nine interviews in the Yale collection, available as text, video, and audio. Inter-library loan of additional excerpts available.

Holocaust Survivors: Survivor Stories: http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/survivors.shtml
Six detailed accounts, in audio and transcript form, include family photographs as well as links to encyclopedia references and related resources. Site developed by Jewish Community Center of New Orleans also includes extensive links.

Museum of Tolerance Online Multimedia Learning Center: Righteous Among the Nations: http://motlc.wiesenthal.org/pages/rn.html
Interviews with rescuers designated Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. Vocabulary links to Encyclopedia of the Holocaust references, photographs and maps.

Rescuers of the Holocaust: http://www.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/
Six interviews with rescuers supplemented with interviews of those they rescued, historical and social context and maps. From previously unpublished book of personal narratives and photographs by Ellen Land-Weber.

A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust: Movies: http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/MOVIES.htm
Video interviews with Holocaust survivors as well as 12 clips of archival footage.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Learning Center: http://www.ushmm.org/topics/
Historical topics supplemented by first-person accounts.

Voices of the Holocaust: http://voices.iit.edu/
Seventy on-line transcripts, some audio, of interviews done in Europe in 1946. Dr. David P. Boder, Illinois Institute of Technology professor, did original interviews in Yiddish, German, Russian and Polish and translated them into English.

Voice/Vision: Holocaust Survivor Oral Histories: http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/index.html
Eleven transcriptions currently available on-line of over 150 interviews done by Dr. Sid Bolkosky, Professor of History, University of Michigan-Dearborn. Contents of each interview subdivided by subject matter. Ongoing project to expand web site, with additional interviews available through inter-library loan.

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Prepared by Josey G. Fisher, Holocaust Education Consultant, Auerbach Central Agency for Jewish Education. December 2001

Artwork: "Arrival in Theresienstadt" 1942
Drawing by child artist Helga Weissova, 1929 -