FYSE 124-01 - Children and the Holocaust: Primary Sources

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A look at materials from our Archives, coupled with narratives of Charleston-area Holocaust survivors.

These oral history archives include many interviews with survivors and liberators. You can search for them by name, or look at a few selected passages under the topical heading "Of Blessed Memory."

There is a sampling of materials on genocide events in the Lowcountry Digital Library. Enter the search term "Holocaust," then chose from the menu of "facets" on the left, such as Collection, Media Type, Subject (Topic), Subject (Geographic).

Growing collection of primary sources for the study of children as witnesses and observers, as well as targets and victims of Nazism. Nazi policies toward children, Jewish and not Jewish, were central to Hitler's plan to remake the population of Europe into masters and slaves, with no place for Jews.

An emerging focus of research and presentation at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the experiences and observations of children are chronicled here through personal histories and powerful historical footage.

Exhibition and discussion of the range and influence of diaries and journals kept by children, some of whom survived the genocide and most of whom did not.

USHMM online exhibition documents the painful choices Jewish parents made to break up their families and find hiding places for their children among gentiles, and the children’s trials and adjustments in a frightening world.

Anne Frank’s diary is many young people’s introduction to World War II and the Holocaust. The answer to “Why is Anne so famous?” may really stem from the theme of Anne’s coming of age and from the beauty and intimacy of her writing. This site reflects the Museum’s multiple missions, as a research center, a creator of important exhibitions in the field of public history, a provider of curricula for every level of education, and a defender of human dignity everywhere. The site is a work of art itself continually in the making.

Pioneering online directory created at the University of South Florida with links to scholarship on the fate of all children in Nazi-occupied Europe.

A University of Southern California Shoah Foundation website that provides links to sites that focus on specific ways in which children were included in Nazi persecution. “French children of the Holocaust” and “Mengele’s Children: The Twins of Auschwitz,” are two particularly thought-provoking titles.