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The Holocaust

Online resources

Click on the links below to find out more about the Holocaust from a range of useful databases and websites:

Credo Reference

Topic pages in Credo Reference

Credo Reference has thousands of subject specific topic pages - a great place to start exploring a topic. Each topic page provides an encyclopaedia entry or dictionary definition, entries from other books on Credo, YouTube videos, images, and links to news articles creating a really useful overview of your chosen topic. 'View Topic on Credo' to see all of the items on the Holocaust topic page below.

ProQuest Learning: Literature

ProQuest Learning: Literature is a fully searchable, growing collection of literature resources, ranging from author biographies, student guides and dictionaries of literary terms to specialist research materials such as current full-text journals and bibliographic citations.
 

Here's a sample of the resources about the Holocaust available on Proquest Learning: Literature:

KnowledgeNotes - The Holocaust, 1933-1945
The new Penguin dictionary of modern history 1789-1945 - Final solution
Encyclopedia of historians and historical writing - Holocaust
American short stories of the Holocaust

KnowledgeNotes - Survival in Auschwitz: the Nazi assault on humanity

To access ProQuest Learning: Literature from off campus click on "Login through your library or institution”, select "United Kingdom” as your region, choose West Nottinghamshire College from the list and click Login, then enter your college username and password on the Vision West Nottinghamshire College authentication page.

British Library Sounds

British Library Voices of the Holocaust

Voices of the Holocaust on the British Library website consists of oral history testimonies gathered from Jewish men and women who came to live in Britain during or after WWII. These testimonies are personal, individual, true stories, that describe the hardships of life during Hitler's reign.

Further interviews with Jewish survivors of the Holocaust can be found on the British Library Sounds website.

Voices of the Holocaust

 In 1946 Dr David Boder, a psychology professor, travelled to Europe to interview 130 Holocaust survivors in displaced-person camps. These interviews can be found on the Voices of the Holocaust website. 

Voices of the Holocaust

Complete Issues

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Some articles covering the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide:

The trial of Oskar Groening

A survivor's tale

My Nazi grandfather would have murdered me

I survived the Rwandan genocide