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Bibliographies

Among these are the 13-volume series published jointly by YIVO and Yad Vashem (Jerusalem), covering sources in English, Yiddish, Hebrew, and Hungarian. French sources are covered in bibliographies published by the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (Paris), and German sources in the Wiener Library's Catalogue Series (London). Abraham J. and Hershel Edelheit's Bibliography on Holocaust Literature (3 vols.) is the most extensive guide to books and articles in English.

Reference books

These include the Encyclopaedia Judaica (16 vols.), the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (4 vols.), and comprehensive surveys, such as the following:

The Destruction of the European Jews, by Raul Hilberg (Chicago, 1967)
The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe during the Second World War, by Martin Gilbert (New York, 1985)
The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945, by Leni Yahil (Oxford, 1990)
The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945, by Lucy S. Dawidowicz (New York, 1975)

Published sets of original documents

These include:

America and the Holocaust, edited by David S. Wyman (New York, 1989-1991, 13 vols.)
The Holocaust, edited by John Mendelsohn (New York, 1982, 18 vols.)
The Nazi Holocaust, edited by Michael R. Marrus (Westport, 1989, 15 vols.)

The above books provide a basic introduction to the Holocaust and are widely available in many public and university libraries. More specialized materials include:

Monographs on specific topics related to the Holocaust
Photographic albums
Nuremberg War Crimes Trial transcripts (published excerpts)
Memoirs and eyewitness accounts
Books published in Nazi Germany
Memorial volumes (yizker-bikher) commemorating Jewish communities in Eastern Europe
Lists of Jewish deportees compiled in western Germany (including west Berlin), France, and Belgium
Lists of Jewish deportees to Terezin (Theresienstadt)
Lists of Jewish Holocaust survivors in postwar Europe
Postwar publications by Holocaust survivors in German, Austrian, and Italian displaced persons camps
The Holocaust in fiction, drama, and poetry

Note: Much of this material is not in English.

Holocaust Study Resources in the Archives

The YIVO Archives also has large collections on the Holocaust. These include:

Fragmentary records of Nazi government agencies (Berlin Collection, RG 215)

Records of the French Jewish community under German occupation (Records of UGIF, RG 210, and other collections)

Documents on Dutch Jewry during the Holocaust

Documents from the Lodz, Warsaw, and Vilna Ghettos

Records of HICEM, on the relief activities of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society in Europe during World War II

Personal testimonies

Photographs

Maps

Records of Holocaust survivors in the postwar displaced persons camps

Links to Other Sources of Information About the Holocaust

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Washington, DC
Consult the USHMM also for information about local Holocaust resource centers.

Leo Baeck Institute
New York, NY. A constituent of the Center for Jewish History.

Simon Wiesenthal Center
Los Angeles, CA

Vilnius International Forum on Holocaust Era Looted Cultural Assets
Vilnius, Lithuania
Page of links to resources related to the recovery of art and other items looted by the Nazis.

Yad Vashem
The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
Jerusalem, Israel

The Wiener Library, Tel Aviv University
Ramat Aviv, Israel

Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine
Paris, France

Foundation Monumentum Iudaicum Lodzense
Lodz, Poland

Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
New Haven, CT

University of Michigan Holocaust Survivor Oral Histories
Dearborn, MI

CAPTION FOR IMAGE AT TOP OF PAGE:
ID card issued in Mainz by the Nazis in 1939. The bearer of the card is identified as a Jew by the large Gothic letter "J" and by the addition of the middle name "Sarah" to her original name. (Records of the Institut der NSDAP zur Erforschung der Judenfrage—Frankfurt am Main)