Includes the complete series of United Newsreel and Universal Newsreel which capture history as it was made and reported to viewers of the time. The collection also contains secondary sources such as award-winning documentaries, featuring dramatic reenactments and engaging analysis from prominent scholars and experts.
60 Minutes: 1997-2014, American History in Video, Art and Architecture in Video, Asian Film Online (Volumes * & II), Black Studies in Video, Business Education in Video, Classical Music in Video, Counseling and Therapy in Video (Volumes I-III), Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video, Current Affairs in Video, Dance in Video (Volumes I & II), Education in Video (Volumes I & II), Environmental Studies in Video, Ethnographic Video Online (Volumes I-III), Fashion STudies Online, Filmakers Library Online (Volumes I-III), Health and Society in Video, Latin American in Video, LGBT Studies in Video, The March of Time, Meet the Press, new World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990-Present, Opera in Video, BBC Video Collection, PBS Video Collect (2nd Ed), Silent Film Online, Theatre in Video (Volumes I & II), Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy, World History in Video, and World Newsreels Online.
A research and learning database providing comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010. The collection includes primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event.
Look for Collection MS 90-12: Hugh Grant Papers. Also available by appointment: Collection MS 87-20: Collection of Captured German Army Photographs of World War II; MS 72-6: Collection of World War II Pamphlets.
Wichita State University history professor Dr. Donald M. Douglas collected oral histories of Kansans who survived the Holocaust. This collection contains audio recordings and transcripts of interviews made in the early 1980s. Also included is the script and video of Dr. Douglas' reading for two voices, "The Forest Children," based on interviews with siblings Bernard Novick and Zina Novick Freeman of Wichita who survived the Holocaust.
Links for digital collections, publications and exhibitions related to the Holocaust and Nazi era arranged alphabetically by country, with an 'International' section at the end. Also included are digital collections of eyewitness testimonies and union catalogues that allow for searching across multiple collections across different organisations.
YIVO is the only prewar Jewish archives and library to have survived the Holocaust. Its materials were looted by the Nazis, but some were rescued after the war and returned to YIVO. Other books and documents turned up decades later in Lithuania. In 2015, YIVO launched the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project, a 7-year project to digitally reunite these millions of pages of documents and books.
Learn about the Holocaust by engaging with a variety of sources from the period. Discover a diary, a letter, a newspaper article, or a policy paper; see a photograph, or watch film footage. Discuss the complex context from which the Holocaust emerged, and consider the importance of primary sources for understanding our world.
On the left, select "Thematic Time Period: World War II, 1939 - 1945" to view many photographs taken by soldiers, including some from the liberation of Dachau concentration camp; oral histories, including one from SSG Harrold Wayne Sherman who guarded Nazi Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess in prison; and letters and artifacts preserved by Kansans.
A selection of primary documents from the United Kingdom's National Archives showing the "complex series of interrelated events" leading up to the murder of millions of Jewish people.
The 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.
Available from the University of Michigan's digital library. The 105 letters in this collection document the experience of a German Jewish family in the years immediately before, during, and shortly after World War II. Nathan and Johannna Rosenberg of Breisach, Germany, had three sons: Julius (1900-1942), Eugen (1901-1964), and Alfred (1911-2005). Eugen left for Palestine in 1935. Alfred, with his wife, her parents, and her brother, immigrated to the United States in August 1938. Julius remained in Germany with his parents and was murdered at Auschwitz in August 1942.
The Yad Vashem Archives house the largest collection of Holocaust documentation in the world. The 125 million pages of documentary evidence, films, and 420,000 photographs, as well as more than 100,000 survivor testimonies stand as indisputable proof of the genocide and crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Nazis and their collaborators.
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