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Primary Sources: The Holocaust

Surviving the Holocaust: Freddie Knoller's War

Surviving the Holocaust: Freddie Knoller's War

Online Sources: Personal Narratives

EARLY HOLOCAUST TESTIMONY Digital edition
The Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program (Azrieli Foundation)
Jewish survivors of the Holocaust (British Library - Sounds)
Klaus Langer papers
Memoirs and Manuscripts in DigiBaeck
Re:Collection
Remember.org: A People's History of the Holocaust and Genocide Holocaust history and stories from Holocaust Photos, Survivors, Liberators, Books and Art
Roman Totenberg Papers: Totenberg-Wilk Holocaust Material
Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust

Shoah (Visual History Archive) This link opens in a new window USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive is a streaming collection of primary source video testimonies from survivors of and witnesses to genocide. Users can search through and view more than 55,000 video testimonies. Initially a repository of Holocaust (1939-1945) testimony, the Archive includes the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda; Anti-Rohingya Mass Violence (August-October 2017); Armenian Genocide (1915-23); and others. Patrons can click on “Register” and create a unique username and password, as official login is required for use of “My Projects/Bookmarked Projects/Shared Projects” features.

Shtetl (PBS) A search for the lives and memories of an entire Jewish village lost in the Holocaust. (Aired 1996) This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station here: http://www.pbs.org/donate . FRONTLINE travels back in time to a family shtetl with producer Marian Marzynski, who escaped the Warsaw ghetto as a child. The ...

Book Sources: Personal Narratives

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Abiding Hope by Benjamin A. Samuelson; Greta Savage Memorial Foundation (Produced by); Jeff Shevlowitz (As told to); Steven B. Jacobs (Foreword by); Pine Orchard Inc. (Designed by)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DS135.R73 S24 2003
ISBN: 1930580495
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
And We Are Not Saved by David Wdowinski; Chaim Lazar; Morris Chariton (Introduction by)
Call Number: Online - HathiTrust
ISBN: 0802224865
Publication Date: 1986-01-01
Between two streams : a diary from Bergen-Belsen by Abel J. Herzberg; Jack Santcross (Translator)
Call Number: Jupiter General Collection DS135.N6 H4
ISBN: 1860641210
Publication Date: 1997-04-15
Children in the Holocaust and World War II by Laurel Holliday
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D804.3 .C45 1995
ISBN: 0671520547
Publication Date: 1995-05-01
The Death Brigade = The Janowska road by Leon Weliczker Wells
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DS135.R93 L898 1978
The diary of a young girl : the definitive edition by Anne Frank; Susan Massotty (Translator); Otto H. Frank (Editor); Mirjam Pressler (Editor)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DS135.N6 F73313 1995
ISBN: 0385473788
Publication Date: 1995-02-01
Diary of Bergen-Belsen by Hanna Levy-Hass; Amira Hass (Introduction by)
Call Number: Jupiter General Collection D805.G3 L4213 2009
ISBN: 9781931859486
Publication Date: 2007-09-01
The diary of Dawid Sierakowiak : five notebooks from the Łódź ghetto by Dawid Sierakowiak; Alan Adelson (Editor); Kamil Turowski (Translator)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DS135.P62 L64434 1996
ISBN: 0195104501
Publication Date: 1996-11-07
The diary of Mary Berg : growing up in the Warsaw ghetto by Mary Berg; Susan Lee Pentlin
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D804.G4 B38 2006
ISBN: 9781851684724
Publication Date: 2007-04-15
A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941 by Victor Klemperer; Martin Chalmers (Translator, Preface by)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection PC2064.K5 A3 1998 Holdings: v.1-v.2
ISBN: 0679456961
Publication Date: 1998-11-03
Ghetto Diary by Janusz Korczak
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D810.J4 K6713
ISBN: 0300097425
Publication Date: 2003-05-11
Hannah Senesh : her life and diary by Hannah Senesh; Marge Piercy (Foreword by); Eitan Senesh (Preface by); Roberta Grossman (Afterword by)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection CT1919.P38 S3668 2004
ISBN: 1580232124
Publication Date: 2004-09-01
The Holocaust Odyssey of Daniel Bennahmias, Sonderkommando by Rebecca Fromer; Steven B. Bowman (Introduction by)
Call Number: View Online
ISBN: 9780817305987
Publication Date: 1993-04-30
In her father's eyes : a childhood extinguished by the Holocaust by Béla Weichherz; Daniel H. Magilow (Editor); Daniel Magilow (Editor)
Call Number: View Online & Boca Raton General Collection DS135.S553 W459 2008
ISBN: 9780813545561
Publication Date: 2008-09-03
Journal 1935-1944 by Mihail Sebastian
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DS135.R73 S38713 2000
ISBN: 1442220244
Publication Date: 2012-11-30
The Journal of Hélène Berr by Hélène Berr; David Bellos (Translator, Introduction by, Afterword by); Mariette Job (Afterword by)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DS135.F9 B498413 2008
ISBN: 9781602860643
Publication Date: 2008-11-11
The journey back from hell : an oral history : conversations with concentration camp survivors by Artor Gill
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D805.A2 G49 1988
ISBN: 0688088473
Publication Date: 1989-04-01
Justyna's Narrative by Justyna; Eli Pfefferkorn; David H. Hirsch; Roslyn Hirsch
Call Number: View Online
ISBN: 0585279926
Publication Date: 1996-01-01
The Nazi officer's wife : how one Jewish woman survived the Holocaust by Edith Hahn Beer; Susan Dworkin
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DS135.A93 B44 1999
ISBN: 0062378082
Publication Date: 2015-03-10
The Political Diary of Alfred Rosenberg and the Onset of the Holocaust by Jürgen Matthäus; Frank Bajohr; Jürgen Matthäus
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DD247.R58 M38 2015
ISBN: 9781442251670
Publication Date: 2015-09-28
Ponary diary, 1941-1943 : a bystander's account of a mass murder by Kazimierz Sakowicz; Yitzhak Arad (Editor); Laurence Weinbaum (Translator)
Call Number: upiter General Collection DS135.L52 V5569413 2005
ISBN: 9780300129175
Publication Date: 2008-10-01
Prisoner 88 : the man in stripes by Roy D. Tanenbaum
Call Number: View Online
ISBN: 1895176743
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
The Quality of Witness by Emil Dorian; Marguerite Dorian (Editor); Mara S. Vamos (Translator); Michael Stanislawski (Introduction by)
Call Number: DS135.R73 D67313 1982
ISBN: 0827602111
Publication Date: 1983-01-01
The Rescue of the Danish Jews : moral courage under stress by Leo Goldberger
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DS135.D4 R47 1987
ISBN: 0814730116
Publication Date: 1988-04-01
The society of terror : inside the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps by Paul Neurath; Nico Stehr; Christian Fleck
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D805.5.D33 N49 2005
ISBN: 9781317251811
Publication Date: 2015-12-22
A thousand kisses a grandmother's Holocaust letters by Renata Polt (Editor)
Call Number: View Online
ISBN: 9780817309305
Publication Date: 1998-12-08
Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945 : foreign authors report from Germany by Oliver Lubrich (Editor); Kenneth J. Northcott (Translator); Sonia Wichmann (Translator); Krouk Dean (Translator)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DD253.A1 R4513 2010
ISBN: 9780226496290
Publication Date: 2010-05-31
Triumph of hope : from Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel by Ruth Elias; Margot B. Dembo (Translator)
Call Number: View Online
ISBN: 9780471163657
Publication Date: 1998-04-17
Two rings : a story of love and war by Millie Werber; Eve Keller
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DS134.72.W44 A3 2012
ISBN: 9781610391238
Publication Date: 2012-03-27
A Voice from the Holocaust by Eve Nussbaum Soumerai; Carol D. Schulz
Call Number: View Online
ISBN: 0313323585
Publication Date: 2003-10-30
The witch doctor : memoirs of a partisan by Michael Temchin
Call Number: Jupiter General Collection D811 .T45
ISBN: 9780896040441
Publication Date: 1983-05-01
Witness to the Holocaust by Michael Berenbaum
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D804.19 .W58 1997
ISBN: 9780062701084
Publication Date: 1997-04-03

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