The Holocaust: Interpretation, Memory, and Representation
A guide to locating primary and secondary resources

 

 

For an excellent guide, see Researching the Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Using the Catalog to locate materials

INNOPAC is the libraries' catalog. It lists books, newspapers, journals, audio-visual materials, databases, internet resources, maps, and recordings which are available through the Grinnell College Libraries.

For information about how to search the catalog effectively see http://www.lib.grinnell.edu/research/InstructionGuides/opac.html

Keyword and subject searching

Keyword searching allows you to select your own terms to describe your topic. Subject heading (controlled vocabulary) searching relies on assigned terms chosen by experts to describe your topic. Keyword and subject heading searches do not generate the same results and both are useful and often necessary to find the best information for your topic.

For more information about using keywords and subject headings, see http://www.lib.grinnell.edu/research/InstructionGuides/subjectkeywords.html

Helpful Hints:


Pay attention to the options of selecting other books with the same subject headings or general call numbers to locate additional resources.

Use the term “bibliography” to locate specialized lists of resources pertinent to your research.

Boolean Searching

In order to perform searches well, you need to know how to do a Boolean Search. For a review of Boolean Searching, see http://www.lib.grinnell.edu/research/InstructionGuides/booleanmodule.html

Bibliographies

Bibliographies are essential research tools for scholars. Always check the footnotes and bibliography in your readings. This is how scholars identify primary source materials, secondary resources, and key authors. Separately published bibliographies, often with annotations, can provide a good starting point for any research project. Specialized bibliographies also provide a means to identify archival and manuscript resources which may be available in microform or on the internet.

AHA Guide to Historical Literature (Oxford UP, 1995) Vol. 1 section 24. R.K. Webb, Britain and Ireland since 1760. (Ref. D20 .A43x 1995)

Ash, Lee. Subject Collections (Ref. Z731. A78 1993)

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/)

Repositories of Primary Sources (http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html)

RefWorks is a tool to help you manage your own growing bibliography.

The following journals also contain incomplete, but recent lists and/or reviews of newly-published works in Holocaust Studies:
 
Holocaust and genocide studies (Online)
(http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/hgs/)

Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook (request through Inter Library Loan)
 
Yad Vashem studies (DS135.E83 .Y3)


Indexes to Journal Articles and Scholarly Resources

Historical Abstracts is the scholarly index for history excluding North America. Journal articles, books, and dissertations in all areas of history (political, cultural, intellectual, etc.) are included.

America History and Life is the scholarly index for the history of North America (escluding Mexico). Journal articles, books, and dissertations in all areas of history (political, cultural, intellectual, etc.) are included.

Alternative Press Index and Alternative Press Archive indexes of nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. The archive covers 1969-90; later material is covered by the Index.

ATLA Religion Index Covers religious and theological scholarship in over 1,000 international journals and 14,000 multi author works.

Arts and Humanities Search offers a unique way of searching for relevant materials by generating a bibliography from a single known source. The Social Sciences Citation Index is available through a mediated search with a reference librarian.

Humanities Abstracts covers major English-language journals in religion, philosophy and literature.

JSTOR is a collection of full-text articles from major journals published in the social sciences, humanities, arts, and some sciences. The most current issues of journals are not included.

PAIS Archive Public affairs, public and social policies, international relations. Early to mid-twentieth century public and social policies, international relations. Coverage is 1915-1976

PAIS International continues coverage from 1977 to date.

Periodicals Index Online A retrospective indexof millions of articles, some in full-text, published in over 3,500 periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Project Muse is another database that offers full-text journal articles from a number of academic journals.

Social Sciences Abstracts covers general English-language journals in history, political science economics, sociology and psychology.

World Cat is an international cataloging database of books, periodicals, manuscripts, web sties and other materials held by public, academic, government, and private libraries around the word. It currently includes over 52,000,000 items.

Center for Research Libraries (http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu/) is a consortium of libraries that acquires, preserves, and shares materials with member institutions. Newspapers and primary source materials are available to borrow through ILL.


Primary Sources

To locate primary source material, use the terms "sources," "case studies," "personal narratives," "correspondence" "interviews" or "diaries." For example: Holocaust Jewish 1939 1945 Sources

Archives of the Holocaust : an international collection of selected documents (D804.3 .A7 1989 3rd Floor Oversize)
 
The Holocaust : selected documents in eighteen volumes (D810.J4 H655)
 
Documents on the Holocaust : selected sources on the destruction of the Jews of Germany and Austria, Poland, and the Soviet Union (D810.J4 D63 1987)

Hilberg, Raul, ed. Documents of destruction; Germany and Jewry, 1933-1945. Chicago, Quadrangle Books, 1971. (D810.J4 H52.)

A Holocaust reader. Lucy S. Dawidowicz, ed. New York : Behrman House, c1976 .(D810.J4 H65.)

Stave, Bruce M. Witnesses to Nuremberg : an oral history of American participants at the war crimes trials. New York : Twayne Publishers, c1998. (KZ1176 .S73 1998).

Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S.Zone). Military Tribunals. Trials of war criminals before the Nuernberg military tribunals under control council law No. 10. Nuernberg, October 1946 -April, 1949. Washington, U. S.G.P.O. [1949-53] (D804.G42 A42)

 

Reference Sources

The Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (Ref. D804.3 .E53 1990)
 
The Macmillan atlas of the Holocaust (G1797.21.E29 G54 1984)
 
 
The complete black book of Russian Jewry (DS135.R92 C647 2002)
 
Documents on Nazism, 1919-1945 (DD256.5 .N59 1974)

Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Ref. CG 5 .D52)

The historiography of the Holocaust. Dan Stone,ed. Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan,2004. ( D804.348 .H57 2004)

Edelheit, Abraham J. Bibliography on Holocaust literature. Boulder : Westview Press, 1986
(Ref  Z6374.H6 E33 1986)        

Niewyk, Donald L. The Columbia guide to the Holocaust. New York : Columbia University Press, c2000
(D804.3 .N54 2000)

The Holocaust film sourcebook. Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart, ed. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c2004 2 vols.
( Z6374.H6 H66 2004) 

Holocaust literature : an encyclopedia of writers and their work. S. Lillian Kremer, ed. New York : Routledge, 2003 2 vols.
(Ref  PN56.H55 H66 2003) 

Fernekes, William R. The Oryx Holocaust sourcebook. Westport, Conn. : Oryx Press, 2002
( Ref  D804.3 .F474x 2002)        

The Holocaust : an annotated bibliography and resource guide. David M. Szonyi, ed. [Hoboken, NJ] : Ktav Pub. House for the National Jewish Resource Center, New York, c1985
(Z6374.H6 H65 1985)     

Web Resources

 

Google Scholar is a way to search for shcolarly literature on the web. It includes links to full-text resources.

 

http://www.science.co.il/Holocaust-Museums.asp

Global Directory of Holocaust Museums

 

Israel

http://www.yadvashem.org/

Yad Vashem

 

Europe
 http://www.jewishmuseum.org.pl/start.html
Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw

 
http://www.auschwitz.org.pl/html/eng/start/
Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau
 
 
http://www.ns-gedenkstaetten.de/portal/index.php
Memorial Sites and Documentation Centers in Germany
 
 
http://www.buchenwald.de/index_en.html
Buchenwald Memorial
 
 
http://stiftung-denkmal.de/en
Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin, Germany
 

http://www.juedisches-museum-berlin.de/site/EN/homepage.php?meta=TRUE
Jewish Museum Berlin

United States

http://www.ushmm.org/

U.S, Holocaust Museum

 

http://www.wiesenthal.com/

Simon Wiesenthal Center

http://www.ncsml.org/
The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library

 
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/vhi/
USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education

 
http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University
 
 
http://remember.org/
Cybrary of the Holocaust

 

http://www.hmh.org/

Houston Holocaust Museum

 

http://www.holocaustcenter.org/

Holocaust Memorial Center (Michigan)

 

 

Images

 

German Propaganda Archive
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/

ArtStor
http://www.artstor.org/info/
This is a growing collection of images from a number of sources, including Grinnell College.

Sunsite
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Collections/
This is from Berkeley and lists a number of good image collections on the web.

Google Images
http://www.google.com/
This is the Google search engine for images.

Technical Advisory Service for Images
http://www.tasi.ac.uk/resources/searchingresources.html
The website for the Technical Advisory Service for Images. There is a section for historical images.

Boston University
http://www.bu.edu/library/instruction/findimages/iarchives.html
From Boston University Libraries, this is has a good selection under “metasites”

Digital Librarian
http://www.digital-librarian.com/images.html
An amazing list of images sources. Alphabetically arranged, it is a bit clunky, but really has some good sites.

Interlibrary Loan

You may request materials through Interlibrary Loan simply by completing the form available from the main menu of the catalog. You will be asked to enter your name and ID number; then you may request materials. Be sure all information is correct and complete. Plan ahead, since it may take two weeks to receive material.

If you have any questions, please contact me at rod@grinnell.edu, or consult any of the other Reference Librarians

Created by: Catherine Rod on January 24, 2006; rev. Jan. 23, 2007