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Holocaust: Primary Sources

Library and internet resources on the holocaust, including books, reference, journal articles, primary sources, museum collections, and more.

Online Collections

Archival Ghetto and Camp Photographs.  A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust, the Florida Center for Instructional Technology.

Auschwitz through the lens of the SS: Photos of Nazi leadership at the camp.The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Avalon Project: The International Military Tribunal for Germany: Contents of The Nuremberg Trials Collection

Euro Docs: Germany: National Socialism and World War II

Euro Docs: Shoah (Holocaust)

German Historical Institute: German History in Documents and Images

German History in Documents and Images (GHDI) GHDI is an initiative of the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC.

Holocaust - Internet History Sourcebook  The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use.

Holocaust Rescue and Relief: Digitized Records of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee.  Digitized records of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC), which aided displaced persons in Europe during and after World War II. The Andover-Harvard Theological Library.

Labor and the Holocaust: the Jewish Labor Committee and the Anti-Nazi Struggle.Jewish Labor Committee Collection at the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

Library of Congress Military Legal Resources: Blue Series: Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal

Library of Congress Military Legal Resources: Red Series: Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression

Nazi Propaganda: 1933-1945. National Socialist propaganda (1933-1945) in English translation, from a collection of German propaganda at Calvin College

The Nuremberg Trials. Library of Congress.

Nuremberg Trials Project. The Harvard Law School Library has approximately one million pages of documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) and to the twelve trials of other accused war criminals before the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT).

PSM = a teachers guide to documents for German history. Includes translations of the German text.

Remember: A Cybrary of the Holocaust

War Diaries from the the Netherlands. Digitized diaries from Dutch Center for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies. All materials are in Dutch.