Explore the Holocaust through Primary Sources
Read a last letter that a Polish Jew threw from a deportation train bound for Auschwitz. Page through the handwritten diary of a Hungarian doctor and learn what she wrote about her Jewish colleague. View photos and films, listen to testimony, and discover the richness of primary sources framed with historical context.
- Learn about the Holocaust from selected photographs, film, diaries, and artifacts, plus historical context;
- Uncover surprising connections using tags like activism, propaganda, family, antisemitism, and health and hygiene;
- Read diaries and documents in their original language with side-by-side translations.
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Why Did the Nazis Target Jews in Their Effort to Build a "New Germany"?
Learn how Jews under Nazi rule faced an escalating campaign to exclude them from German society in the years before World War II.
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
View sources that highlight Jewish responses to persecution and genocide under Nazism.
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- Holocaust Diaries
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- Diary of Elisabeth Ornstein
Americans and the Holocaust
Explore sources that reveal how Americans understood and responded to Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust.
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- Black Americans and World War II
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- Oral History with Leon Bass
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
Find sources exploring the difficult choices and pressures that confronted people during the Holocaust.
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Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule
Examine sources that show how the Nazis and their supporters transformed Germany to align with theories about race and national unity.
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- Targets of Eugenics
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- Self-Portrait by Franz Karl Bühler
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