United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
| Holocaust Encyclopedia | Introduction
to the Holocaust; World War II; antisemitism, racism, pogroms, the Third
Reich, ‘Final Solution’; mosaic of victims, women, children,
Jewish resistance, non-Jewish resistance, rescue; camp systems, forced
labor, einsatzgruppen, ghettos, extermination camps; refugees, US &Holocaust,
liberation of Nazi camps, the aftermath, war crimes trials |
| Enciclopedia del Holocausto en Espanol, Encyclopedie Multimedia de la Shoah en Francais | Spanish and French translations |
| Personal Histories | Children, refugees, survival, liberation,
ghettos, resistance, deportations, aftermath, camps, hiding, aid and escape,
individuals (Real Player videos with full transcripts) |
| Mapping the Holocaust | Animated
maps: Holocaust, WW II, Voyage of St. Louis, Warsaw Ghetto, Auschwitz,
Rescue, Lodz, Resistance, European Rail System, Aftermath |
| Online Exhibitions | Staring
Genocide in the Face; Deadly Medicine; Silent Witness; Life in Shadow;
Anne Frank: the Writer; Fighting the Fires of Hate; Nazi Persecution of
Homosexuals; Who Was This Woman: Dr. Lucja Frey Gottesman; C o C: Documenting
Reconciliation & Reconstruction in Rwanda; Art & Politics of Arthur
Szyk; Genocide Warning: Sudan; Music of the Holocaust; Holocaust Era in
Croatia; Do You Remember ,When; Life Reborn; Speech & Silence; Holocaust
in Greece; Voyage of the St. Louis; Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto;
Kristallnacht; Nazi Olympics, 1936; Offenbach Archival Depot; Father Jacques;
Dietrich Bonhoeffer; Doctors Trials |
| Special Focus | Liberation
of Auschwitz: 60th Anniversary; Nazi Olympics; Focus on Liberation; Rescue
of Jews of Denmark; Antisemitism; Kristallnacht; Nazi Persecution of Persons
with Disabilities; Tracing Their Fate: St. Louis Passengers; Women’s
History Month; Szpilman’s Warsaw: the History Behind The Pianist;
Black History Month; Names Reading: A Day of Reflection & Remembrance;
Oskar Schindler; Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals; Memories of Courage;
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising |
| Museum Exhibitions | Permanent
exhibition (from where one can view 130 photographs of the exhibition
sorted from the photo archives); Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master
Race (exhibit thru October 16, 2005); special exhibit: Remember the Children:
Daniel’s Story (from where one can view 14 photographs of the exhibition
sorted from the photo archives and one can view w/Real Player the Daniel’s
Story video) |
Inside the Museum
| Collections | Highlights:
the experience of Sephardi Jews in Macedonia during the Holocaust; stuffed
“Refugee” bear; Lola Rein’s dress, Gyorgy Beifeld, artist;
Leon Jakubowicz’s Lodz Ghetto model; WW II liberation photos; Zofia’s
doll, Flight and Rescue artifact; remnants & recollections
of Sephardi Jews in collection; mission statement of collections; Overview:
collections division; search engine for the collections; some music
of the Holocaust online; oral history guidelines’ book in PDF; in
photo archives: 14,000 of 80,000 historical photos are online |
| Library | Catalog
search will perform a library and archives search for materials, most
of which are located at the Museum; web links; bibliographies; gives info
on doing a family search and physically visiting the library; ask a question |
| Art & Architecture | Museum’s
architectural history; art: Gravity, Loss & Regeneration, Consequence,
Memorial; Hall of Witness, Hall of Remembrance; outside museum |
| Frequently Asked Questions | Diverse questions about the Holocaust, museum & its history, quotations in the museum, camps, victims, Anne Frank, Resistance and Rescue; how to cite the Museum as a source in research paper |
Education
| For Teachers |
Teaching Materials & Resources: in PDF there is the resource
book for educators in English and Spanish; Belfer Exemplary Lessons Initiative;
web voyage: list of curricula and books about teaching the Holocaust which
are available at Museum; History of the Holocaust: an Overview (also in
Spanish); teacher guide to Permanent Exhibition: activities for prior
to, during, and following a visit to the Museum; 37 identification cards;
chronology of the Holocaust; annotated bib, videography; a booklet about
resistance; five brochures about non-Jewish victim groups; artifact photos;
Time Capsule in a Milk Can; teacher guides for Life in the Shadows, Daniel’s
Story, & Nazi Olympics; viewing activity for art & politics of
Arthur Szyk; Holocaust learning site for students; Online Teacher Workshop;
Workshops, Conferences, & Fellowships;; Beyond Our Walls: State Profiles;
May Family Nat’l Art & Writing Contest; Plan a Visit; Community
Partners; Bringing the Lessons Home |
| For Students | Most
of the content on the Students tab follows the same links as the Teachers
tab-- Learning about the Holocaust is a short introduction geared
at students, scrolling downward—there are a few online activities
that link back to Online Exhibitions, scroll further down to the entry
of “The Holocaust: a Learning
Site for Students” which has excellent short articles in five
fundamental thematic categories: Nazi rule, Jews in Germany, “Final
Solution,” Nazi camps, rescue & resistance. Related photos,
artifacts, key dates, glossary and timelines are provided for each article.
“A Must.” |
Provided in February of 2005 by Your Cyber Web Guide, Sheila Hansen, USHMM Museum Fellow, 2000-2001, Spearfish, South Dakota