Holocaust Site Index A-F

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Africa

Movement of European Jews to Africa
Madagascar Plan
Allies DEFN
Economic Blockade
Inter-Allied Declaration
Negotiations with other Neutrals
Postwar Allied-Swiss Negotiations
Potsdam Conference
Safehaven Program
Tripartite Gold Commission and the Bank for International Settlements
Photo Gallery: Allied Propaganda

Amsterdam
Photo Gallery: Various memorials
Photo Gallery: Various memorials
Anschluss DEFN

Historical context

Anti-Christian
Nuremberg Trials: Battle against the churches
Christian victims
Antisemitism DEFN
Antisemitic legislation and propaganda
Kristallnacht
Mein Kampf
Antisemitic legal policies
Nuremberg Trials: Condemning wrongs against Jews

Architecture, Nazi
Photo Gallery: Berlin
Photo Gallery: Munich
Photo Gallery: Nuremberg
VR: Tempelhof Airport
VR: Air Ministry
ART
Art of the ghettos and camps
Nazi approved art
Degenerate art
Art in response to the Holocaust
Photo Galleries: Camp memorials
Photo Galleries: Other memorials
Photo Galleries: Art and architecture
Aryan DEFN
Establishing "Aryan Ancestry"
Goal of Nazi Regime
Gypsies threaten strength of Aryan race
Hitler's idea of "true art"
Julius Streicher on Jewish-Aryan mixed couples
Mein Kampf
Nazi-approved art
Nazi approved music
Restrictions imposed to protect Aryans from Jews

Auschwitz/Birkenau DEFN
David Olere, survivor of Auschwitz
Document: Testimonies of Auschwitz SS-Men
Document: Testimony of crematorium engineers
Document: Resettlement of Jews
Photo Gallery: Camp buildings
Photo Gallery: Memorials and displays
Photo Gallery: Inmate art from Auschwitz and Birkenau
Photo Gallery: Children's barrack murals
Photo Gallery: Nooit Meer Auschwitz
Photo: Forced labor at the Krupp factory
Photo: Forced labor at a locksmith shop
Photo: Abandoned train
Movie: Auschwitz nightmares
Movie: Children of Auschwitz
VR: Five views of Auschwitz
VR: Twelve views of Birkenau
Map: Auschwitz
Map: Rail system leading to Auschwitz

Austria
Definition: Anschluss
Definition: Kristallnacht
Photo: Austrian Jew points out mass graves
Photo: Austrians dig mass graves
Photo: Austrians remove corpses
Photo: Nazi Banners in Austria
Photo: University of Viennna
Movement of European Jews to Austria
Nuremberg Trials: Nazi acquisition of Austria
Axis DEFN
Economic blockade
Nuremberg Trials: Prosecution of Axis criminality

Babi Yar DEFN

Photo Gallery: Einsatzgruppen
Symphony: Yevgeny Yetushenko

Balkans
Nuremburg Trials: Overrun by German armies
Movement of Roma into Balkans
Baltic States
Nuremburg Trials: Baltic states overrun by German armies
Resettlement of Germans from Baltic states

Bank for International Settlements
Archival Information from Bank for International Settlements
Bank for International Settlements Agreement
Tripartite Gold Commission and the Bank for International Settlements
Bar-Mitzvah DEFN

Bat-Mitzvah DEFN

Beer Hall Putsch DEFN
Historical context

Belzec DEFN
Camps
Romani prisoners at Belzec
Holocaust time line 1933-1945
Photo: Commandant's house
Photo: Execution of woman
Document: Testimonies of Belzec SS-Men

Berlin
Photo Gallery: Jewish Museum exterior
Photo Gallery: Jewish Museum interior
Photo Gallery: Jewish Museum garden
Photo Gallery: Kollwitz Pietá
Photo Gallery: Park memorial
Photo Gallery: Jewish cemetery
Photo Gallery: Various memorials
Photo Gallery: Bendlerblock
Photo Gallery: Plötzensee memorial
Photo Gallery: Architecture
VR: Tempelhof Airport
VR: Air Ministry
VR: Topography of Terror
VR: House of the Wannsee Conference
Bergen-Belsen DEFN
Anne Frank at Bergen-Belsen
Diary of a Young Girl
Survivor's Story
Photo: Remains of Crematoria Oven
Photo: Women Survivors at Bergen-Belsen
Photo: Women's ward at Bergen-Belsen
VR: Memorial wall

Bernburg
Photo Gallery: "Euthanasia" facility
VR: Gas chamber
Bialystok
Photo Gallery: Ruins of synagogue
Photo Gallery:
Photo Gallery:
Map: Revolt in 1943
Map: Ghetto in 1942
Bibliographies
Index to Holocaust bibliographies
Blitzkrieg DEFN
Hitler's tactic

Bobigny
Photo Gallery: Train station
Book Burning
Historical context
Photo: Berlin, 1933
Photo: Gathering books
Photo: Gathering books
Photo Gallery: Bebelplatz memorial to book burnings
Boycott
Document: Anti-Jewish boycotts
Photo: Distribution of boycott signs
Photo: Boycott sign
Photo: Boycott banner
Photo: SA pickets with boycott signs
Photo: Forced march
Breendonk
Photo Gallery: Exterior of fort
Photo Gallery: Interior of fort
Photo Gallery: Various memorials
VR: Fort exterior
British White Paper of 1939 DEFN
Historical context

Brüning, Heinrich DEFN
Historical context

Buchenwald

Gypsies deported
Medical experiments on homosexuals
Photo Gallery: Historic photos
Photo Gallery: SS housing, kennel, quarry, towers, and fences
Photo Gallery: Gate building, storehouse, and canteen
Photo Gallery: Crematorium
Photo Gallery: Memorial gate and seven stelae
Photo Gallery: Memorial "Street of All Nations," sculpture group, and bell tower
Photo: Children released from
Photo: Prisoners at forced labor
Photo: Prisoners orchestra in Buchenwald
Photo: Slave laborers
Photo: Survivors of Buchenwald
Photo: Train used to ship prisoners
Photo: Wagons loaded with corpses of prisoners
VR: Center of camp
Budapest
Photo Gallery: Raoul Wallenberg memorial park
Photo Gallery: Various memorials

Camps

Introduction
Photo Galleries: Historic photos
Photo Galleries: Recent photos
Map: Self-pronouncing
Map: Camp system
Cantor DEFN
Photo: Cantor chants prayer for holocaust victims
Carbon Monoxide
Document: Gas vans
Document: Preferred method of killing
Document: Testimony of Brack
Catholic
Images: Roman Catholic memorial at Dachau
Nuremberg Trials: Battle against the churches
Catholic Poles as subhuman
Chamberlain, Neville DEFN
Historical context

Chancellor DEFN
HItler's Appointment to Chancellor
Definition: Adolph Hitler
Document: Address by Adolf Hitler, September 1, 1939
Document: Proclamation by Adolf Hitler, September 3, 1939
Activity: News Flash
Chelmno DEFN
Chelmno completed in 1941
Gypsies at Chelmno
Document: Explosion at Chelmno
Document: Testimony of Theodor Malzmuellers
Photo: Children being deported to Chelmno
Photo: Jewish men awaiting death at Chelmno
Children
Introduction
Photo Gallery: Children as displaced persons
Photo Gallery: Children in the Warsaw ghetto
Photo Gallery: Jewish children
Photo: Child survivors in Dachau
Photo: Child survivors in Buchenwald
Photo: German children watch synagogue burn
Photo: Children about to be executed
Drawing: Burying the remains of children
Movie: Children of Auschwitz
Document: List of executions including children
Activity: Janusz Korczak
Activity: Children and their rights
Collaborators
Photo: Round-up by Dutch troops
Photo: French women
Photo: Beaten French collaborator
Photo: French collaborator punished
Photo: Dutch women
Photo: Belgium women
Concentration Camp DEFN
Introduction
Documents: Auschwitz
Photo Galleries: Historic photos
Photo Galleries: Recent photos
Operation Reinhard (or Aktion Reinhard)
VR Movies: Concentration camps

Czechoslovakia
Photo: Transit camp in Dablice
Occupation of Czechoslovakia
Document: Germany conspires against Czechoslovakia
Definition: Terezin
Definition: Theresienstadt

Dachau DEFN

Camps
Script: Dachau, a Reading for Two Voices
Description of the Protestant memorial
Photo Gallery: Historic photos
Photo Gallery: Recent photos
Photo Gallery: American soldiers at Dachau
Photo Gallery: Various memorials
Photo Gallery: Jewish memorial
Photo Gallery: Protestant memoral
Photo Gallery: Roman Catholic memorial
Photo: Hitler Youth examine boxcars at Dachau
Photo: Dachau liberation
Photo: Lone boxcar survivor
Photo: Liberators and prisoners meet
Photo: Survivors greet American liberators
Photo: Young survivors cheer liberation
Map: Dachau camp
VR: International memorial
VR: Large crematorium

Danzig
Expulsion of Jews and Poles from Danzig
Document: Address by Adolf Hitler, September 1, 1939
Document: Communication from the German Government
Death Camp DEFN
Camps
Camp victims
Ghettos as collection points for death camps
Perpetrators
Rescue and liberation
Discussion questions about death camps
Definition: Death marches
Definition: Gas chambers
Definition: Zyclon B
Photo Galleries: Historic photos
Photo Galleries: Recent photos
Art Gallery: Drawings and paintings byDavid Olère
Document: Testimonies of Belzec SS-Men
Document: Testimony of crematorium engineers
Document: Testimonies of SS men from various camps
Document: Testimonies of Treblinka SS-men
Death Marches DEFN
Historical context
Photos: Dachau Inmates on death march

Degenerate Art DEFN
Degenerate art
Artists Included in the Entartete Kunst exhibit
Movie: Degenerate art exhibit
Bibliography

Dehumanization DEFN
Ghetto dwellers resist dehumanization
Survivor testimony and literature

Denmark
Photo: Danish rescue boat
Map: Rescue of Danish Jews
Deportation
Photo Gallery: Deportation
Movie: Filling freight cars
Movie: Warsaw ghetto population deported
Movie: Deportation of Dutch Jews
Desecrating the host DEFN
Jews accused of desecrating the host

Displaced Persons' Act of 1948 DEFN
Historic context

Displaced Persons DEFN
Issues with displaced persons from 1945-1948
Funds for displaced persons
Photo Gallery: Displaced persons

Displacement DEFN
Displacement of Jews
Drancy
Photo Gallery: Camp memorial
Ebensee
Photo Gallery: Camp memorials
Cubic VR: Tunnel complex

Eichmann, Adolph DEFN

Brief biography and photo
Photo: Portrait

Einsatzgruppen DEFN
Historical context
Roma and Poles as victims
In Poland
In the Soviet Union
Mental patients killed
Definition: Heinrich Himmler
Definition: Sonderkommando
Document: Jager Report
Photo Gallery: Einsatzgruppen

Eisenhower DEFN
As a liberator
Photographing and documenting the horror
Photo: Inspecting stolen art treasures
Photo: Inspecting graves
Photo: Listening to survivors
Photo: Touring Ohrdruf camp

Eizenstat Report
Historical context
Briefing on the Washington Conference
Challenges for action
Concluding statement Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets
Need for others to join the Commission on Insurance Claims
On-the-record briefing on Holocaust-Era Conference
Support of principles on nazi-confiscated art
U.S. and Allied efforts to recover and restore gold and other assets stolen
U.S. Support for the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims
"Euthanasia" DEFN
Historical Context
Document: Nazi extermination of people with mental disabilities
"Euthanasia" killings of persons with disabilities

Final Solution DEFN

Definition: Wannsee Conference
Hitler's order for
Document: The Wannsee Protocol
Activity: The Final Solution
France
Definition: Treaty of Versailles
Munich Pact: September 29, 1938
Threatens war against Germany
Effort to return art
Photo Gallery: The Train station at Bobigny
Photo Gallery: The camp at Drancy
Photo Gallery: Memorial des Martyrs de la Deporation-Paris
Photos: Punishment of collaborators in France
Frank, Anne
Legacy of Anne Frank
Book Review: The Diary of a Young Girl
Bibliography: Anne Frank
Activity: The Anne Frank story
Activity: Research and discussion
Frank, Hans DEFN
Brief Biography and photo
Ruler of "General Government"
Definition: General Government
Issued ordinance to wear Star of David
Document: Diary of Hans Frank
Document: Speech to German soldiers
Photo: At desk
Photo: Photo as defendant at Nuremburg Trials
Fry, Varian
Activity: Varian Fry
Photo: Varian Fry Street
Führer
Document: Fuehrer principle

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