This guide will serve as a starting for you as you begin your research on the Holocaust. Use the boxes below to navigate through the variety of resources available to help you locate the sources you need. Please contact me by email or schedule an appointment with me if you get stuck and need assistance.
Idaho Statesman -- You can access the digitized issues by going to the Boise State University Library. Contact Georgeanne Kurtz-Shaw for information on how to access the collection once you are at the BSU library.
The Holocaust Encyclopedia by
The Holocaust has been the subject of countless books, works of art, and memorials. Fifty-five years after the fact the world still ponders the enormity of this disaster. The Holocaust Encyclopedia is the only comprehensive single-volume work of reference providing both a reflective overview of the subject and abundant detail concerning major events, policy decisions, cities, and individuals. Up-to-date and designed for easy access, the encyclopedia presents information on the major aspects of the Holocaust in essays by scholars from eleven countries who draw on a number of sources--including recently uncovered evidence from the former Soviet bloc--to provide in-depth studies on the political, social, religious, and moral issues of the Holocaust as well as short entries identifying events, sites, and individuals. The book also has more than 250 photographs, many of them rare, and 19 maps. The volume includes: * Raul Hilberg on concentration camps and Gypsies * Ruth Bondy, Israel Gutman, and Dina Porat on major ghettoes * Roger Greenspun on the Holocaust in cinema and television * Richard Breitman on American policy * Michael Cohen on British policy * Michael Berenbaum on theological and philosophical responses * Saul Friedländer on Nazi policy * Michael Hagemeister on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion * Michael R. Marrus on historiography * Christopher R. Browning on the Madagascar Plan * Robert S. Wistrich on Holocaust denial * James E. Young on Holocaust literature
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945: Volume I by
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award: "This valuable resource covers an aspect of the Holocaust rarely addressed and never in such detail." --Library Journal This is the first volume in a monumental seven-volume encyclopedia, reflecting years of work by the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, which will describe the universe of camps and ghettos--many thousands more than previously known--that the Nazis and their allies operated, from Norway to North Africa and from France to Russia. For the first time, a single reference work will provide detailed information on each individual site. This first volume covers three groups of camps: the early camps that the Nazis established in the first year of Hitler's rule, the major SS concentration camps with their constellations of subcamps, and the special camps for Polish and German children and adolescents. Overview essays provide context for each category, while each camp entry provides basic information about the site's purpose; prisoners; guards; working and living conditions; and key events in the camp's history. Material from personal testimonies helps convey the character of the site, while source citations provide a path to additional information.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by
"Stands without doubt as the definitive reference guide on this topic in the world today." --Holocaust and Genocide Studies This volume of the extraordinary encyclopedia from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum offers a comprehensive account of how the Nazis conducted the Holocaust throughout the scattered towns and villages of Poland and the Soviet Union. It covers more than 1,150 sites, including both open and closed ghettos. Regional essays outline the patterns of ghettoization in nineteen German administrative regions. Each entry discusses key events in the history of the ghetto; living and working conditions; activities of the Jewish Councils; Jewish responses to persecution; demographic changes; and details of the ghetto's liquidation. Personal testimonies help convey the character of each ghetto, while source citations provide a guide to additional information. Documentation of hundreds of smaller sites--previously unknown or overlooked in the historiography of the Holocaust--make this an indispensable reference work on the destroyed Jewish communities of Eastern Europe. "A very detailed analysis and history of the events that took place in the towns, villages, and cities of German-occupied Eastern Europe . . . .A rich source of information." --Library Journal "Focuses specifically on the ghettos of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe . . . stands without doubt as the definitive reference guide on this topic in the world today. This is not hyperbole, but simply a recognition of the meticulous collaborative research that went into assembling such a massive collection of information." --Holocaust and Genocide Studies "No other work provides the same level of detail and supporting material." --Choice
Items listed below represent a few of the books and eBooks available through the NNU Riley Library. For more books on this subject, you can browse the shelves starting with D804.18 and going through D810. OR, search the library catalog for more eBooks and print books. If you need assistance, ask a librarian.
Children of the Holocaust by 
The Holocaust in American Life by 
Holocaust Perpetrators of the German Police Battalions by 
Man's Search for Meaning by 
The United States and the Nazi Holocaust by 
Voices from the Holocaust by 
Witness by Items with a number before the author name are nonfiction (e.g., 940.45982 Smith); items with author last name, first initial, and title are works of fiction (e.g, Boyne J Boy). Items with a YA before the call number are in the Young Adult section rather than the children's literature section. The last item in the list is an eBook and discusses how the Holocaust is portrayed through children's books. If you need assistance in locating an item, please ask a librarian or someone at the Learning Commons Service Desk.
Ana Frank (Anne Frank) [Spanish edition] by 
Anne Frank [English edition] by 
The Big Lie by 
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by 
The Boy on the Wooden Box by 
Elie Wiesel by Hana's Suitcase by 
Hilde and Eli by 
Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's Shadow (Scholastic Focus) by 
The Holocaust by 
Jars of Hope by 
The Librarian of Auschwitz by Passage to Freedom by 
The Secret of Priest's Grotto by 
The Story of Anne Frank by 
Survivors of the Holocaust by 
Surviving the Angel of Death by 
The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs by 
Representing the Holocaust in Children's Literature by | Concentration Camps AND Holocaust | Jews AND Germany AND History AND 1933-1945 | Jews AND Segregation AND Europe |
| Holocaust (Christian theology) | Holocaust AND Personal narratives | Holocaust denial |
| Holocaust AND Germany | Nazi propaganda AND Antisemitism | Holocaust AND United States |
| Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | Genocide AND Germany | Nuremberg Trials |
| Nuremberg Medical Trials | Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (either as author or subject) | *If searching for children's or YA literature on the subject, add "juvenile literature" as an additional search phrase |
| Human experimentation in medicine AND Germany AND 20th century | ||
If you need assistance narrowing your topic, or finding the right search terms, please contact a librarian for assistance!
