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Selected resources on the Holocaust at Stanford University Libraries and beyond, including databases, memorial (Yizkor) books, and survivor memoirs.

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Zachary M Baker
Assistant University Librarian for Collection Development - Humanities and Social Sciences, Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections
Cecil H. Green Library
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Anna M Levia
Assistant Curator, Judaica & Hebraica Collections , Interim Bibliographer, Linguistics
Cecil H. Green Library
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The annotated bibliography on antisemitism [electronic resource] / SICSA, the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism ; the Felix Posen Bibliographic Project on Antisemitism.
[Jerusalem] : Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
The Felix Posen Bibliographic Project on Antisemitism comprises an online database accessible through Israel's university library network (ALEPH), and printed bibliographies. The bibliography includes works published throughout the world about antisemitism--books, dissertations, master's theses, and articles from periodicals and collections. It does not include newspaper articles, reviews, and works of fiction, nor does it cover antisemitic publications. The project has two parts: the ongoing annotated bibliography (from 1984 to the present), and the retrospective bibliography, which lists books and articles, published prior to 1984 (presently includes works published from 1965-1983). The long-term goal is to compile a comprehensive listing of all works written about antisemitism throughout history. For the purpose of this bibliography, antisemitism is defined as antagonism toward Jews and Judaism as expressed in writings (e.g., the New Testament, polemical literature, works of fiction), in the visual arts (e.g., art, caricatures, films), and in actions (e.g., massacres and pogroms, discriminatory legislation, the Holocaust). Since 1988, the bibliography includes all works dealing with the Holocaust period (1933-1945), i.e., on antisemitic ideology, policy, and attitudes, as well as on the Jewish experience (memoirs, memorial books, etc.).
The Felix Posen Bibliographic Project on Antisemitism [electronic resource] / SICSA, the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism.
[Jerusalem : Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, 1999?]-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
The resource comprises online databases containing about 30,000 items. New material is added on a regular basis. It is accessible through Israel's university library network (ALEPH), and printed bibliographies. The bibliography includes works published throughout the world about antisemitism -- books, dissertations, master's theses, and articles from periodicals and collections. It does not include newspaper articles, reviews, and works of fiction, nor does it cover antisemitic publications. The "Jewish question" in German-speaking countries, 1848-1914 continues the Bibliographie zur Geschichte der Judenfrage by Volkmar Eichstädt.
Online testimony catalog [electronic resource] / Shoah Foundation.
Los Angeles, CA : Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Indexes biographical information on interviewees from the Shoah Foundation's Holocaust survivors' videotaped testimonies. Over 42,000 data records which give biographical information and wartime experiences of survivors are accessible through the catalogue. Interviewees are from nine experience groups including Jews, Jehovah?s Witnesses, Sinti and Roma, homosexuals, political prisoners, survivors of eugenics policies, rescuers and aid providers, liberators, and war crimes trials participants.
Testaments to the Holocaust [electronic resource] / Ben Barkow, general editor and director of the Wiener Library, London.
[Stamford, CT?] : Cengage Learning
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
This digital collection from the Wiener Library in London offers searchable personal accounts of life in Nazi Germany, photographs, propaganda materials such as school text books, small publications and rare serials reflecting Jewish life in Germany from 1933 to after the war, life in the concentration camps, in hiding, emigration and refugee life. Items are arranged in five categories: over 1,200 eyewitness accounts, about 4,000 photographs, over 400 Nazi propaganda materials (many of which are very rare), various Wiener Library publications from the 1930s to the 1960s, and the library's biographical index cards.
Visual history archive [electronic resource].
[Los Angeles, CA] : USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Contains nearly 52,000 video testimonies of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust taped in 56 countries and in 32 languages between 1994 and 1999. Most testimonies have been indexed for keywords at one-minute segments. The archive also includes the indexed testimonies of 65 survivors and rescuers of the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi Genocide. While 15 of these testimonies were conducted by the USC Shoah Foundation mainly in the United States, 50 of this collection belong to Aegis Trust and the Kigali Genocide Memorial (KGM), whose staff conducted these interviews between 2006 and 2011.
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Holocaust Memorial (Yizkor) books

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  1. Memorial books of Eastern European Jewry : essays on the history and meanings of Yizker volumes

    edited by Rosemary Horowitz. 2011

  2. Brzezin memorial book

    edited by A. Alperin and N. Summer. 2012

  3. Działoszyce memorial book

    project coordinator, Menachem Daum, translation edited and annotated by Fay and Julian Bussgang. 2012

  4. ‏פנקס בעליצע

    L(ieber) Losh, publisher. 2010

  5. The Szczebrzesyn Memorial Book = efer zikaron li-ḳehilat Shebreshin

    Dov Shuval, editor. Editorial committee Moshe Weinstock, Efraim Farber, Abraham Wolfson, Shimon Scher, Zvi Traeger (Tal), Hanoch Becher, Chaya Schissel. English translation by Jacob Solomon Berger. 2005

  6. Memorial book : the Jewish communities of Manyevitz, Horodok, Lishnivka, Troyanuvka, Povursk and Kolki : Wolyn region

    [editor, English edition, Asher Tarmon ; translators, Esther Klauger ... et al.].. 2004

  7. Memorial book Szydłowiec

    editor, Berl Kagan ; [translated from Yiddish Max Rosenfeld].. 1989

  8. Korczyna memorial book : translation of Korczyna: sefer zikaron

    project coordinator and translator, William Leibner ; editor, Phyllis Kramer. 2014

  9. The Cieszanow memorial book

    David Ravid (Shmukler), editor ; English translation prepared and published by Jacob Salomon Berger. 2006

  10. The Volkovysk memorial book : a trilogy comprised of Wolkovisker Yizkor book / edited by Moses Einhorn, New York, 1949; Hurban Volkovysk / published by the Committee of Volkovisk Émigrés, Tel-Aviv, 1946; Volkovysk / published by Katriel Lashowitz, Tel Aviv, 1988

    English translation prepared and published by Jacob Solomon Berger. 2002

Holocaust Survivor memoirs

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  1. Holocaust memoir digest : survivors' published memoirs with study guide and maps

    edited and collated by Esther Goldberg ; with an introduction and 36 new colour maps by Martin Gilbert. 2004

  2. Holocaust memoirs : Jews in the Lwów Ghetto, the Janowski Concentration Camp, and as deportees in Siberia

    by Joachim Schoenfeld ; foreword by Simon Wiesenthal. 1985

  3. Imagery from Genesis in Holocaust memoirs : a critical study

    Deborah Lee Prescott. 2010

  4. Abe's story : a Holocaust memoir

    by Abram Korn ; edited by Joseph Korn ; annotated by Richard Voyles. 1995

  5. Miracle of survival : a Holocaust memoir

    by Herbert Boucher. 1997

  6. Hiding in the open : a Holocaust memoir

    Sabina S. Zimering. 2002

  7. Rescuing the children : a Holocaust memoir

    Vivette Samuel ; translated and with an introduction by Charles B. Paul ; with a foreword by Elie Wiesel. 2002

  8. The 23rd Psalm : a Holocaust memoir

    George Lucius Salton, with Anna Salton Eisen. 2002

  9. A long labour : a Dutch mother's Holocaust memoir

    Rhodea Shandler ; introduction by S. Lillian Kremer ; afterword by Roxsane Tanner. 2007

  10. A daughter's gift of love : a Holocaust memoir

    by Trudi Birger, written with Jeffrey M. Green. 1992