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Anne Frank Center USA
The Anne Frank Center USA is a nonprofit organization that promotes the universal message of tolerance by developing and disseminating a variety of educational programs including exhibitions, workshops and special events.
Anti-Defamation League
The official Web site of this organization, which is dedicated to fighting antisemitism, bigotry and extremism.
Arnold-Liebster Foundation - Nazi Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses
The Arnold-Liebster Foundation was established by Holocaust-era survivors Max Liebster and Simone Arnold Liebster in January 2002 to educate future generations in the lessons of history. A non-political, non-profit organization, it strives to keep alive the memory of victims of dictatorships and religious persecution. The foundation supports historical research and educational programs for the purpose of promoting peace, tolerance, human rights, and religious freedom.
Association of Holocaust Organizations
The Association of Holocaust Organizations was established in 1985 to serve as a network of organizations and individuals for the advancement of Holocaust programming, awareness, education and research.
Business and the Holocaust
This Web site from Stockmaven.com looks at business ethics before, during and after the Holocaust and includes historical media reports, current media reports and a look at the Nuremberg war crimes trials.
Catalog of Holocaust Resources and Materials
This site shows products available through Social Studies School Services.
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies was established by the University of Minnesota in the College of Liberal Arts in 1997. This extensive Web site serves as a resource for teaching and informing the public about the Holocaust and contemporary genocide.
Centropa
Centropa is a Vienna and Budapest-based non-profit NGO that uses advanced technologies to preserve Jewish memory in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Balkans and the Baltics, and then uses those same technologies to disseminate findings in creative and innovative ways. The site's interactive database offers an oral history project that combines old family pictures with the stories that go with them. Centropa has interviewed almost 1,300 elderly Jews living in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and the Sephardic communities of Greece, Turkey and the Balkans.
Committee on Conscience
The Committee on Conscience is the office of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated to alerting national and international policymakers to acts of genocide and related crimes against humanity.
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide organizes international agreements that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law.
Cybrary of the Holocaust
This site from Remember.Org, a nonprofit organization, shares art, photographs, facts, poems and discussion to preserve the memory of the Holocaust.
Echoes and Reflections
Whether teaching a full semester Holocaust studies course or including information about the Holocaust in a unit of study on World War II, this curriculum allows teachers to choose as little or as much material as they can cover in a specific time period and still cover the subject matter effectively. Developed primarily for use with high school students, the Echoes and Reflections curriculum has also been adapted successfully to accommodate both younger and older students. Ten multi-part lessons are provided with a companion DVD of over two-and-a-half hours of visual history testimony from survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust.
El Holocausto
El Holocausto is a comprehensive Spanish-language site covering the history of the Holocaust.
Facing History and Ourselves
Facing History and Ourselves is an international educational and professional development organization whose mission is to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice and antisemitism to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry.
Genocide Studies Program of Yale University
The Genocide Studies Program at Yale University's MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies conducts research, seminars and conferences on comparative, interdisciplinary and policy issues relating to the phenomenon of genocide and provides training to researchers from afflicted regions.
Genocide Watch
Genocide Watch's role is to attempt to predict, prevent, stop and punish genocide and other forms of mass murder.
Ghetto Fighters Museum
The Ghetto Fighters Museum hosts this Web site from Israel focused on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
H-Holocaust
This is a subscription-based discussion list covering various topics of the Holocaust and closely related topics such as antisemitism, Jewish History in the 1930s and 1940s, World War II, Germany and international diplomacy.
Holocaust Studies
This is a large Web site from Aish HaTorah with history and information regarding the destruction of the Jews in the Holocaust.
Holocaust/Shoah Page
This extensive site from Middle Tennessee State University covers the Holocaust, Nuremberg laws, Final Solution, persecution of other groups, Nuremberg Trials, Yad Vashem archives and Holocaust denial.
House of the Wannsee Conference
On the 50th anniversary of the conference held at the House of Wannsee in 1992, the House of Wannsee Conference memorial and educational center was created. This is the official Web site of the House of the Wannsee Conference Memorial and educational site.
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch is an internationally active organization dedicated to protection of human rights around the world.
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
The tribunal was established by a United Nations Security Council Resolution in 1994 to prosecute the organizers and leaders of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
This site promotes a shift from shift from impunity to accountability, establishment of the facts, bringing justice to thousands of victims of genocide in the former Yugoslavia and giving them a voice in the rule of law.
International Tracing Service - Bad Arolsen
The International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen serves victims of Nazi persecutions and their families by documenting their fate through the archives it manages. The ITS preserves these historic records and makes them available for research.
Jewish Foundation for the Righteous
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous was established to fulfill the traditional Jewish commitment to hakarat hatov, the searching out and recognition of goodness. The foundation also educates teachers and students about the history of the Holocaust.
JewishGen
This is a resource site for researching Jewish geneology, with databases, discussion groups and other information.
Save Darfur Coalition
The Save Darfur Coalition is an umbrella organization of more than 100 faith-based, humanitarian and human rights organizations focused on the ongoing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan.
Simon Wiesenthal Center
This is the official site of the international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach and social action.
Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research
This is the official Web site for the Task Force. It exists to place political and social leaders' support behind the need for Holocaust education, remembrance and research nationally and internationally.
Teacher Curriculum for "Haven"
Class activities and curriculum focusing on the group of 1,000 refugees who were allowed into the United States during World War II. The television mini-series "Haven" was based on the book of the same name by Ruth Gruber.
Topography of Terror
The mission of the Topography of Terror Foundation is to provide historical information about National Socialism and its crimes as well as to stimulate active confrontation with this history and its impact since 1945. Moreover, the foundation serves as an advisor to the State of Berlin in all matters relating to those issues.
Museum Links
Dallas Holocaust Museum
The Dallas Holocaust Museum is dedicated to reducing prejudice by teaching about the Holocaust, preserving the experience to those who survived and honoring the memory of those who perished.
El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center
The El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center was established in 1992 in memory of those killed by the Nazis, in honor of the survivors who endured the terrors and with respect for those who lost family and friends. The Museum's goals are to comat prejudice and bigotry through education and to instill into mankind the value and dignity of human life.
Florida Holocaust Museum
The Florida Holocaust Museum honors the memory of millions of innocent men, women and children who suffered or died in the Holocaust. The museum is dedicated to teaching members of all races and cultures to recognize the inherent worth and dignity of human life to prevent future genocides.
Jewish Museum Berlin
This is an extensive Web site on the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany.
Museum of Jewish Heritage
The Museum of Jewish Heritage was created as a living memorial to those who perished during the Holocaust. The museum honors those who died by celebrating their lives, cherishing the traditions that they embraced, examining their achievements and faith and affirming the vibrant worldwide Jewish community that is their legacy today.
Museum of Tolerance Multimedia Learning Center
This site is a comprehensive resource on the Holocaust and World War II, with more than 3,000 text files and tens of thousands of photos from the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
This is an extensive Web site from the national museum in Washington D.C., complete with searchable photo archives.
Yad Vashem
This is the official Web site of the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Israel.
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