This guide was originally developed to accompany the traveling exhibition "Americans and the Holocaust," hosted at Pattee and Paterno Library, January 31-March 10, 2022. It has been updated and expanded to address Holocaust research more generally.
Contains original manuscript materials, rare books and printed materials documenting the Jewish experience in America. Includes responses to the Holocaust and efforts to aid Jewish refugees.
Contains original manuscript materials from the American Jewish Historical Society in New York. Access to six major organisational collections and twenty-four collections of personal papers that document the Jewish experience in America. Personal collections include letters, scrapbooks, autobiographies, notebooks and other materials. Organizational papers document the activities of a variety of Jewish social and philanthropic groups. In addition to manuscript collections, rare printed books and pamphlets from the Soble and Rosenbach collections at the American Jewish Historical Society are also included.
the archives of the Wiener Library, London, the first archive to collect evidence of the Holocaust and the anti-semitic activities of the German Nazi Party
This online, easily searchable online resourced of rare historical material from The Wiener Library, London, provides documentary evidence for the study of Nazi Germany and its crimes against the Jewish people from many perspectives. The Wiener Library is the oldest institution in the world established to document the Nazi regime and its crimes against the Jewish people. The material in this online archive is organized into four sections: original Nazi propaganda materials, eyewitness accounts, photographic material, and Wiener Library publications.
The role of the Vatican and Pope Pius XII regarding refugees, the Holocaust and relations with America during the war years and the immediate post-war period.
collection of audiovisual interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides
The Visual History Archive® is the Institute’s collection of audiovisual interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides. It is the reason USC Shoah Foundation was originally founded, and continues to be the basis for its educational and scholarly programs today.