Outline of this guide: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Reference Sources Primary Sources Secondary Sources

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• Archival Guide to the Collections of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Brewster Chamberlin and Carl Modig. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2003.
  Reference R 016.94 U58a2

• Style Guides
  • Chicago Manual of Style. 15th ed. Chicago, IL: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2003.
    Reference R 808.02 C53 2003
  • A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers. Kate Turabian; rev. Wayne C. Booth et al. 7th ed. Chicago, IL: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2007.
    Reference Desk 808.02 T929m7
  • A Pocket Guide to Writing in History. Mary Lynn Rampolla. 5th ed. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007.
    Reference Desk R 907.2 R177p
• Biographical Works
  • American National Biography. Ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999-2002.
    Reference R 920.073 A512
  • Biography Reference Bank. H.W. Wilson, 2003- .
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. ed. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2004.
    Reference R 920 N2111
  • Who's Who in Nazi Germany. Robert Wistrich. New York: Macmillan, 1982.
    Reference R 920.043 W817w
• General Works on Genocide
  • Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity. Ed. Dinah Shelton. 3 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2005.
    Reference R 364.15 E56
  • Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review. Ed. Israel Charny. 6 vols. New York: Facts on File, 1988.
    Reference R 016.36 G335
    Library has: vols. 1-2, 5
    Lists both primary and secondary sources.
  • Genocide in our Time: An Annotated Bibliography with Analytical Introductions. Michael Dobkowski and Isidor Wallimann. Ann Arbor, MI: Pieran Press, 1992.
    Reference R 016.364 D633g
    Lists both primary and secondary sources.
• Historical Background
• Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Epoch: An Annotated Bibliography of English-Language Works on the Origins, Nature, and Structure of the Nazi State. Paul Madden. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1998.
  Reference R 016.943 M179a
• Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. Ed. Richard Levy. 2 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005.
  Reference R 305.892 A633
• The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. Ed. Christian Zentner and Friedemann Bedürftig. Trans. Amy Hackett. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1991.
  Reference R 943.086 G878-T
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
  A collection of over 120 electronic reference works. Includes:
  • Encyclopaedia Judaica. Ed. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik. 2nd ed. 22 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2007.
  • The Encyclopedia of Modern Europe: Europe since 1914. Ed. John Merriman and Jay Winter. 5 vols. Detroit, MI: Scribner's, 2006.
  • Encyclopedia of Prisoners of War and Internment. Jonathan Vance. 2nd ed. Millerton, NY: Grey House Publishing, 2006.
  • Historical Dictionary of the 1940s. Ed. James Ryan and Leonard Schlup. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2006.
  • ... and many more!
• A Historical Dictionary of Germany's Weimar Republic, 1918-1933. Ed. C. Paul Vincent. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997.
  Reference R 943.085 V773h
• Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia of History, People, and Culture, 1871-1990. Ed. Dieter Buse and Juergen Doerr. 2 vols. New York: Garland, 1998.
  Reference R 943.08 M689
• The Third Reich, 1933-1939: A Historical Bibliography. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1984.
  Reference R 016.943 T445
• The Third Reich Almanac. James Taylor and Warren Shaw. New York: World Almanac, 1987.
  Reference R 943.086 T243d
• The Weimar Era and Hitler, 1918-1933: A Critical Bibliography. Peter Stachura. Oxford: Clio Press, 1977.
  Reference R 016.943 S775w
• The Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Ed. Gershon David Hundert. 2 vols. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 2008.
  Reference R 947.004 Y51
• The Holocaust
  • Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Epoch: An Annotated Bibliography of English-Language Works on the Origins, Nature, and Structure of the Nazi State. Paul Madden. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1998.
    Reference R 016.943 M179a
  • Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. Ed. Richard Levy. 2 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005.
    Reference R 305.892 A633
  • Bearing Witness: A Resource Guide to Literature, Poetry, Art, Music, and Videos by Holocaust Victims and Survivors. Philip Rosen and Nina Apfelbaum. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002.
    Reference R 016.94 R813b
  • The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust. Donald Niewyk and Francis Nicosia. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2000.
    Reference R 940.53 N682c
  • Dictionary of the Holocaust: Biography, Geography, and Terminology. Eric Epstein and Philip Rosen. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997.
    Reference R 940.53 E63d
  • Encyclopedia of German Resistance to the Nazi Movement. Ed. Wolfgang Benz and Walter H. Pehle. Trans. Lance Garmer. New York: Continuum, 1997.
    Reference R 943.086 L679-T
  • The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust. Ed. Shmuel Spector. 3 vols. New York: New York Univ. Press, 2001.
    Reference R 940.53 E561
  • The Encyclopedia of Modern Europe: Europe since 1914. Ed. John Merriman and Jay Winter. 5 vols. Detroit, MI: Scribner's, 2006.
  • The Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. Ed. Israel Gutman. 4 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1990.
    Reference R 940.53 E56
  • The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. Ed. Christian Zentner and Friedemann Bedürftig. Trans. Amy Hackett. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1991.
    Reference R 943.086 G878-T
  • The Felix Posen Bibliographic Project on Antisemitism, from the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Includes:
    • The Annotated Bibliography on Antisemitism (BAS)
      Lists books, articles, dissertations, and other materials published from 1965 to the present. Does not include reviews, newspaper articles, fiction, and antisemitic publications themselves.
      Print version:
      • Antisemitism, an Annotated Bibliography. Ed. Sarah Cohen (New York: Garland, 1987- ).
        Reference R 016.3 A633
        Library has: vols. 1-13 only. The online version contains more information.
    • The Jewish Question in German-Speaking Countries, 1848-1914
      Material from 1915-1933 is currently being added to this database.
  • Historical Atlas of the Holocaust. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. New York: Macmillan, 1995.
    Reference R 940.53 H673
  • Historical Dictionary of the Holocaust. Jack Fischel. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1999.
    Reference R 940.53 F5292hi
  • The Holocaust: An Annotated Bibliography. Harry Cargas. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1985.
    Reference R 016.943 C276h
  • The Holocaust: An Annotated Bibliography and Resource Guide. Ed. David Szonyi. [Hoboken, NJ]: Ktav Pub. House for the National Jewish Resource Center, 1985.
    Reference R 016.943 H754
  • The Holocaust and After: Sources & Literature in English. Jacob Robinson. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1973.
    Reference R 016.943 R662h
  • The Holocaust and World War II Almanac. Ed. Peggy Saari and Aaron Saari. 3 vols. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2001.
    Reference R 940.53 H7541
  • The Holocaust Encyclopedia. Ed. Walter Laqueur. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 2001.
    Reference R 940.53 H754
  • The Holocaust Film Sourcebook. Ed. Carolina Picart. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004.
    Reference R 016.791 H754
    Volume 2 lists documentaries and propaganda films made during or after World War II.
  • Holocaust Literature: A Handbook of Critical, Historical, and Literary Writings. Ed. Saul Friedman. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993.
    Reference R 940.53 H7548
  • The Jewish Holocaust: An Annotated Guide to Books in English. Marty Bloomberg. San Bernardino, CA: Borgo Press, 1991.
    Reference R 016.94 B655j
  • Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia of History, People, and Culture, 1871-1990. Ed. Dieter Buse and Juergen Doerr. 2 vols. New York: Garland, 1998.
    Reference R 943.08 M689
  • Nazi-Deutsch/Nazi-German: An English Lexicon of the Language of the Third Reich. Robert Michael and Karin Doerr. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002.
    Reference R 943.086 M621n
  • The Oryx Holocaust Sourcebook. William Fernekes. Westport, CT: Oryx, 2002.
    Reference R 016.94 F364o
  • The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust. Martin Gilbert. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge, 2002.
    Reference R 940.53 G465at3
  • The Third Reich, 1933-1939: A Historical Bibliography. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1984.
    Reference R 016.943 T445
  • The Third Reich Almanac. James Taylor and Warren Shaw. New York: World Almanac, 1987.
    Reference R 943.086 T243d

• General Tools
  See also the bibliographies of primary sources in the reference sources listed above.
  • Library Catalog
    To locate primary sources, do a keyword search and add one or more of the following words:
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  • WorldCat
    To locate primary sources, do a keyword search and add one or more of the following words:
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    Note: Rare and archival materials cannot be borrowed on interlibrary loan. You can sometimes locate microfilm or microfiche copies of these documents in WorldCat; try doing an advanced search, enter your keywords or subject terms, and then apply a "subtype limit," choosing "Microform" as the format.
• Memorials & Research Institutes
  
  • Directories
    • Association of Holocaust Organizations
      • U.S. Organizations
      • Non-U.S. Organizations
    • Global Directory of Holocaust Museums, from the Israel Science and Technology Directory
    • Museums and Remembrance Organizations, from the United States Holocaust Museum
  • Germany
    • Buchenwald Memorial, from the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation
      This site has both English and German versions.
    • Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas = Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, from Stiftung Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas
      The site has both German and English versions.
    • NS-Gedenkstätten und Dokumentationszentren in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
      Lists and describes memorials and documentation centers in Germany; most portions of this site are still only available in German.
  • Israel
    • Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, Jerusalem
  • United States
    • Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, from the Manuscripts and Archives Department, Yale University Library
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
      Includes digital collections of texts, photographs, film clips, and sound files as well as information about the museum's extensive collections.
      See also:
      • Archival Guide to the Collections of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Brewster Chamberlin and Carl Modig. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2003.
        Reference R 016.94 U58a2
    • USC Shoah Foundation Institute , from the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education
• Nuremberg Trials
  • The Holocaust: The Nuremberg Evidence, Digest, Index, and Chronological Tables. Jacob Robinson and Henry Sachs. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1976.
    Reference R 016.943 R662ho
  • Nuremberg Trials, from the Library of Congress
    Includes
    • Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression. Office of the U.S. Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. 8 vols. Washington, DC: U.S.G.P.O., 1946.
    • Trials of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945 - 1 October 1946 [Blue Series]. 42 vols. Nuremberg, 1947-1949.
  • Nuremberg Trials Project: A Digital Document Collection, from the Harvard Law School Library
    Currently contains over one million pages of documents; more material will continue to be added.
  • Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
    Contains Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal [Blue Series], Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, and related and supporting documents.
  • Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10, Nuernberg, October 1946 - April 1949 [Green Series]. 15 vols. Washington, DC: U.S.G.P.O., [1949-1953].
    Government Information Stacks D 102.8
• Periodicals & News Sources
  Periodical Indexes | Newspapers & News Sources
  • Periodical Indexes
    The library has long runs of many magazines and journals; see, for example, the library's guide to Twentieth-Century Popular Magazines in Little Library.
    • Humanities Abstracts
      (1907 to present). Indexes articles in over 500 English-language journals in the fields of archaeology, art, classics, communication, film, folklore, history, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, religion, and theatre. Also includes citations for book, theatre, and film reviews as well as interviews, obituaries, and some original creative works. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present.
      This database includes the content in the International Index to Periodicals (1907-1965).
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      (1915 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, government documents, and conference papers in political science, public affairs, and economics.
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    • Periodicals Index Online
      (c. 1665-1995) Indexes journal and magazine articles as well as book reviews in a broad array of humanities, social sciences, and science subjects.
      Search Syntax:
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      (1890 to present) Indexes articles in U.S. popular and general interest magazines.
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      (1907 to present) Indexes journal articles and some book reviews on all social sciences subjects, including history, political science, international relations, law, economics, area studies, gender studies, anthropology, psychology, and sociology.
      This database includes the content in the International Index to Periodicals (1907-1965).
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  • Newspapers & News Sources
    See also the library's guide to Twentieth-Century Newspapers.
    Individual Newspapers | Collections of Newspapers, News Reports, & Periodicals
    • Individual Newspapers
      • The Christian Science Monitor
        • 1954 to present: microfilm
          Microfilm cabinet C-11
        • 1980 to present: available through LexisNexis Academic
        • Index (1954-1992): Reference Index Area R 070 C555
      • Frankfurter Allgemeine
        • 1954 to present: microfilm
          Microfilm cabinet C-15
        • 1980 to present: available through LexisNexis Academic
      • The New York Times
        • 1851-2004: Historical Newspapers: The New York Times
        • 1851 to present: microfilm
          Microfilm cabinets C20-C26
        • June 1980 to present: available through LexisNexis Academic
        • Index (1851 to present): Reference Index Area R 071 N53
          Personal Name Index: Reference Index Area R 071 N53p
      • The Times [London]
        • 1785 to present: microfilm
          Microfilm cabinets C35-C37
        • July 1985 to present: available through LexisNexis Academic
        • Index (1785 to present): Reference Index Area R 070 T58
      • The Wall Street Journal
        • 1961 to present: microfilm
          Microfilm cabinet C-42
        • 1989 to present: Wall Street Journal Index
        • Index (1961-2003): Reference Index Area R 071 W187
      • The Washington Post
        • 1877 to present: microfilm
          Microfilm cabinets C-43, C45-C46
        • 1977 to present: available through LexisNexis Academic and NewsBank
        • Index (1971-2005): Reference Index Area R 071 N53
      • Die Zeit
        • 1946 to present: online
        • 1961 to present: microfilm
          Microfilm cabinet C-48
      To find other newspapers, see the library's guide Newspapers held by other libraries: how to find them
      The following titles are particularly useful:
      • Newspapers in Microform: United States
        • Online:
          • Newspapers in Microform: United States, 1948-1983. 2 vols. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1984.
            • Vol. 1: States A-O [pdf file]
            • Vol. 2: States P-Z [pdf file]
            Note: Ignore the "1948-1983" in the title of this work; this volume lists many earlier newspapers too.
        • Print:
          • Newspapers in Microform: United States, 1948-1972. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1973.
            Reference R 016.07 U581n
            Note: Ignore the "1948-1972" in the title of this work; this volume lists many earlier newspapers too.
      • Newspapers in Microform: Foreign Countries
        • Online:
          • Newspapers in Microform: Foreign Countries, 1948-1983. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1984. [pdf file]
            Note: Ignore the "1948-1983" in the title of this work; this volume lists foreign newspapers published in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
        • Print:
          • Newspapers in Microform: Foreign Countries, 1948-1972. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1973.
            Reference R 016.07 N581nf
            Note: Ignore the "1948-1972" in the title of this work; this volume lists foreign newspapers published in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
    • Collections of Newspapers, News Reports, & Periodicals
      For AP reports and photographs, see also the AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive.
      • America's Historical Newspapers
        (1690-1922) Contains digital facsimiles of over 950 seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth-century newspapers; the full text of these newspapers, including all articles, advertisements, and other contents, is keyword-searchable.
        The Davidson College Library has all five series in this collection, which is part of the Archive of Americana.
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      • Deutsch-jüdische Presse, from the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft
        (c. 1768-2002) Contains the full text of over twenty periodicals published by the German-Jewish press; most date from the late 19th century to the 1920s. In German.
      • LexisNexis Academic
        (Approx. 1980 to present) Includes the full text of articles from major national and international newspapers as well as from some foreign-language newspapers. Also includes translations of some foreign press releases (via BBC Monitoring), transcripts of radio and television broadcasts (c. 1992 to present), wire reports, and articles from popular magazines.
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      • Westlaw Campus Research
        Includes the full text of news articles as well as selected transcripts of news broadcasts from 14 countries. Also includes federal and state court cases.
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• U.S. Government Documents
  To find additional government documents, be sure to search the Library Catalog too; in the first drop-down menu on the main search page, limit your search to "Little Government Information" and then enter relevant search terms.
  • Foreign Relations of the United States. Washington, DC: U.S.G.P.O., 1861- .
    Government Information Stacks S1.1
    (Some volumes are online)
  • LexisNexis Congressional
    (Late 1980s to present [full text]; 1789 to present [index]) Indexes congressional documents and provides the full text of many recent congressional publications.
    Note: Most of the full-text documents in LexisNexis Congressional date from the late 1980s to the present. Many of the older documents indexed by LexisNexis Congressional can be found in the U.S. Congressional Serial Set.
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  • Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
    • Herbert Hoover
      Government Information Stacks GS 4.113: 1929 through GS 4.113: 1932-33
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      Government Information Stacks GS 4.113: 1928-1932 through GS 4.113: 1944-45
    • Harry S. Truman
      Government Information Stacks GS 4.113: 1945 through GS 4.113: 1952-53
    • Dwight D. Eisenhower
      Government Information Stacks GS 4.113: 1953 through GS 4.113: 1960-61
    • John F. Kennedy
      Government Information Stacks GS 4.113: 1961 through GS 4.113: 1963
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      Government Information Stacks GS 4.113: 1963-64 through GS 4.113: 1968-69
    • Richard M. Nixon
      Government Information Stacks GS 4.113: 1969 through GS 4.113: 1974
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      Government Information Stacks GS 4.113: 1974 through GS 4.113: 1976-77
    • Jimmy Carter
      Government Information Stacks GS 4.113: 1977 through GS 4.113: 1980-81
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      Government Information Stacks GS 4.113: 1981 through GS 4.113: 1988
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      Government Information Stacks GS 4.113: 1989 through GS 4.113: 1992-93
      Note: 1991-1992 are online.
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      Government Information Stacks GS 4.113: 1993 through GS 4.113: 2000-2001
      Note: 1993-2001 are online.
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      Government Information Stacks GS 4.113: 2001 through GS 4.113: 2003
      Note: 2001-2003 are online.
  • U.S. Congressional Serial Set
    (1817-1980, but see note below) Contains the fully-searchable text of the Serial Set, a rich collection of primary source materials on all aspects of U.S. political, military, cultural, economic, ethnic, and social history. Includes U.S. Senate and House of Representatives reports, documents, and journals. This collection is part of the Archive of Americana.
    Note: this digital collection is not yet complete. To find documents dating from the late 1960s to 1980, be sure to search LexisNexis Congressional too. The Davidson College Library has print and microfiche versions of many twentieth-century Serial Set volumes, including:
    • A selection of print volumes from the 69th Congress (1925-1926) through the 85th Congress (1956-1958) [incomplete]
      Government Documents Stacks
    • 86th Congress (1958-59) through the 91st Congress (1969-71) [microfiche]
      Microfiche cabinet B-9
    • 92nd Congress (1971-1972) through the 95th Congress (1977-1978)
      Government Documents Stacks
    If you need documents from volumes that are not in our collection, please ask a librarian; we can borrow these volumes from another library for you.
• Other Examples of Primary Sources
  • AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive
    (1826 to present [images]; 1997 to present [text]) A collection of image, graphics, and text databases from the Associated Press (AP). Over 700,000 AP photographs dating from 1826 to the present are available in two collections: the International Archive (U.S. state, regional and national photographs; international photographs) and the Euro/Asian Archive. The Graphics Database contains diagrams, maps, and charts dating from 1999. The text database contains the full text of AP reports from 1997 to the present.
    Search Syntax:
    • To limit to a particular date range, use the following format: from [year] to [year].
      Example: from 1942 to 1945
    Note: Photographs and graphics from the Archive cannot be sold, syndicated, loaned or used for advertising or for trade without the written consent of AP. In addition, users cannot republish any of the photographs on a Web page.
  • America and the Holocaust: A Thirteen-Volume Set Documenting the Editor's Book The Abandonment of the Jews. Ed. David Wyman. 13 vols. New York: Garland, 1989-1991.
    Little Library Stacks 940.53 A5121
  • America Views the Holocaust, 1933-1945: A Brief Documentary History. Robert Abzug. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martins, 1999.
    Little Library Stacks 940.53 A167a
  • Antisemitic Propaganda: An Annotated Bibliography and Research Guide. Robert Singerman. New York: Garland, 1982.
    Reference R 016.3 S617a
  • Archives of the Holocaust: An International Collection of Selected Documents. Henry Friedlander and Sybil Milton. 22 vols. New York: Garland, 1989-1995.
    Little Library Stacks 016.94 A673
    Each volume in this series covers documents in a specific library, archives, or repository.
  • Bearing Witness: A Resource Guide to Literature, Poetry, Art, Music, and Videos by Holocaust Victims and Survivors. Philip Rosen and Nina Apfelbaum. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002.
    Reference R 016.94 R813b
    Includes lists of diaries.
  • The Black Book: The Ruthless Murder of Jews by German-Fascist Invaders throughout the Temporarily-Occupied Regions of the Soviet Union and in the Death Camps of Poland During the War of 1941-1945. Ed. Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman. Trans. John Glad and James Levine. New York: Holocaust Publications, 1981.
    Little Library Stacks 940.53 B627
  • The Chronicle of the Lódz Ghetto, 1941-1944. Ed. Lucjan Dobroszycki. Trans. Richard Lourie. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1984.
    Little Library Stacks 943.8 C557
  • Documents on the Holocaust: Selected Sources on the Destruction of the Jews of Germany and Austria, Poland, and the Soviet Union. Ed. Yitzhak Arad et al. New York: Ktav Pub. House, [1982].
    Little Library Stacks 940.53 D6371
  • The Einsatzgruppen Reports: Selections from the Dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads' Campaign Against the Jews, July 1941 - January 1943. Ed. Yitzhak Arad et al. New York: Holocaust Library, 1989.
    Little Library Stacks 940.53 E35-T
  • Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review. Ed. Israel Charny. 2 vols. New York: Facts on File, 1988.
    Reference R 016.36 G335
    Lists both primary and secondary sources.
  • Genocide in our Time: An Annotated Bibliography with Analytical Introductions. Michael Dobkowski and Isidor Wallimann. Ann Arbor, MI: Pieran Press, 1992.
    Reference R 016.364 D633g
    Lists both primary and secondary sources.
  • "The Good Old Days": The Holocaust as Seen by its Perpetrators and Bystanders. Ed. Ernst Klee et al. New York: Free Press, 1991.
    Little Library Stacks 940.53 S371g
  • The Holocaust and After: Sources & Literature in English. Jacob Robinson. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1973.
    Reference R 016.943 R662h
  • The Holocaust Film Sourcebook. Ed. Carolina Picart. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004.
    Reference R 016.791 H754
    Volume 2 lists documentaries and propaganda films made during or after World War II.
  • The Literature of Destruction: Jewish Responses to Catastrophe. Ed. David Roskies. Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society, 1988.
    Little Library Stacks 909.04 L776
  • The Nizkor Project
    A collection of documents. The site was created to counter the claims of those who deny the Holocaust.
  • The Oryx Holocaust Sourcebook. William Fernekes. Westport, CT: Oryx, 2002.
    Reference R 016.94 F364o
  • The Pictorial History of the Holocaust. Ed. Yitzhak Arad. New York: Macmillan, 1990.
    Little Library Folios F 940.53 P611
  • The Weimar Republic Sourcebook. Ed. Anton Kaes et al. Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press, 1994.
    Little Library Stacks 943.085 W4222

• Books
  • Library Catalog
    Includes information about books, government documents, and journals, magazines, and newspapers in the Library.
    • To locate appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings, start with a keyword search and then browse records. Useful subject headings include:
      • Antisemitism [country name]
      • Auschwitz (concentration camp)
      • Buchenwald (concentration camp)
      • Concentration camps Germany
      • Concentration camps Poland
      • Genocide
      • Holocaust denial
      • Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)
      • Holocaust memorials
      • Holocaust survivors
      • Jewish ghettos
      • Jews persecutions
      • Nuremberg trial of Major German war criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946
      • Refugees Jewish
      • World War 1939-1945 Atrocities
      • World War 1939-1945 Jews
    • To locate works about a person, do a subject search for the person's name (last name first).
    • To locate bibliographies on a person or topic, do a keyword search and add the following: su bibliography.
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: use a dollar sign $
    • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
    • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
  • ebrary
    A collection of over 38,000 e-books published by over 220 academic, trade, and professional publishers; covers all subject areas. Also includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights.
    Note: for full functionality, you need the ebrary Reader. This plugin is on all library and ITS computers, but if you are using your own computer, you can download it from the ebrary home page.
  • WorldCat
    Indexes books, periodicals, and other materials held by libraries around the world. Search WorldCat to identify additional books on your topic and then order the books on interlibrary loan.
    Note: It can be helpful to identify relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings in the Library Catalog first; you can then do a subject search in WorldCat to find additional items with these subject headings.
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: use an asterisk *
    • Phrase searching: insert a "w" between the words in a phrase (for example, "cold w war")
    • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
• Articles
  Core Resources | Other Resources | Notable Journals
  • Core Resources
    • Historical Abstracts & America: History & Life
      (Time period covered: 1450 to present [world history]; prehistory to present [U.S. and Canadian history]. Publication coverage: 1954 to present). Indexes journal articles, book chapters, doctoral dissertations, and book reviews. (Each database can also be searched separately.)
      Search Syntax:
      • Truncation: use an asterisk *
      • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
      • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
    • Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
      Library has: vol. 28 (1983) to present
      Little Library Stacks 305.8 L576y
      Each volumes contains an annotated bibliography of works about German-speaking Jews.
    • Web of Knowledge
      (c. 1900 to present) A multidisciplinary resource that provides citations to articles in thousands of journals in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences.
      Search Syntax:
      • Truncation: use an asterisk *
      • Phrase searching: use double quotations marks " "
      • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
  • Other Resources
    Because of the interdisciplinary nature of Holocaust studies, sure to consult the library's indexes and databases pages too.
    • Academic Search Premier
      (1975 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also includes citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers.
      Search Syntax:
      • Truncation: use an asterisk *
      • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
      • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
    • ATLA Religion Database
      (1949 to present) Indexes book reviews on all aspects of religion and theology.
      Search Syntax:
      • Truncation: use an asterisk *
      • Phrase searching: automatic
      • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
    • Humanities Abstracts
      (1907 to present). Indexes articles in over 500 English-language journals in the fields of archaeology, art, classics, communication, film, folklore, history, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, religion, and theatre. Also includes citations for book, theatre, and film reviews as well as interviews, obituaries, and some original creative works. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present.
      Search Syntax:
      • Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *
      • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks ""
      • Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?
    • JSTOR
      Includes pdf copies of scholarly articles from a core collection of journals; also includes book reviews. Note:JSTOR does not contain articles from the most recent 3-5 years.
      Search Syntax:
      • Truncation: use a plus sign +
      • Phrase searching: automatic
    • PAIS International
      (1915 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, government documents, and conference papers in political science, public affairs, and economics.
      Search Syntax:
      • Truncation: use an asterisk *
      • Phrase searching: automatic
      • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
    • Periodicals Index Online
      (c. 1665-1995) Indexes journal and magazine articles as well as book reviews in a broad array of humanities, social sciences, and science subjects.
      Search Syntax:
      • Truncation: use an asterisk *
      • Phrase searching: automatic
    • Project Muse
      Includes pdf and HTML copies of journal articles published by university and scholarly presses.
      Search Syntax:
      • Truncation: use an asterisk *
      • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
    • Social Sciences Abstracts
      (1907 to present) Indexes journal articles and some book reviews on all social sciences subjects, including history, political science, international relations, law, economics, area studies, gender studies, anthropology, psychology, and sociology.
      Search Syntax:
      • Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *
      • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks ""
      • Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?
  • Notable Journals
    • Holocaust and Genocide Studies
      Library has:
      • Vol. 10 (1996) to present: online through Oxford Journals
      • Vol. 17 (2003) to present: online through Project Muse
      • Vol. 1 (1986) to present: Little Library Bound Periodicals
    • Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
      Library has: vol. 28 (1983) to present
      Little Library Stacks 305.8 L576y
    • Yad Vashem Studies
      Library has: vols. 1-13 (1957-1979)
      Little Library Stacks 940.53 Y12