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This guide aims to provide users with reliable resources about World War II and the Holocaust. The resources here include databases available through EVPL* and websites by respected organizations and educational institutions.
For additional resources, visit EVPL’s Online Learning & Research. For personalized assistance, email our reference librarians at rs@evpl.org
*If you are accessing EVPL resources outside of the library, you may be asked for your library card number and PIN.
EVPL Digital Resources*
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive | Visit the Visual History Archive to research and view more than 55,000 survivor and witness testimonials. These testimonials include Survivors of the Shoah Holocaust accounts, and also include more recent acts of genocide and crimes against humanity. |
| EVPL Digital Archive: Survivors of the Shoah – Visual History Foundation | The documents contained in this collection are intended to serve as an index to the Shoah testimonies held as part of the EVPL’s collection of materials in the Indiana Room. Video testimonies are not included in this collection. Individual testimonies can also be searched via our online catalog. For this project, EVPL partnered with CYPRESS (Committee to Promote Respect in Schools). |
| EVPL Digital Archive: USS LST 325 Memorial Museum Collection | Access the diaries, photographs, blueprints, deck logs, and newspapers collected by the USS LST 325 Memorial Museum. |
| Explora for Elementary Schools | An interface designed for students in grades K-5 with a focus on the arts, literature, biography, business and careers, current events, geography and culture, health, history, math, science and more. |
| Explora for Elementary Schools – Holocaust Subtopic | A curated collection of Holocaust resources for elementary students. |
| Explora for Elementary Schools – World War II Subtopic | A curated collection of World War II resources for elementary students. |
| Explora for Middle Schools | An interface designed for students in grades 6-8 with a focus on the arts, literature, biography, business and careers, current events, geography and culture, health, history, math, science and more. |
| Explora for Middle Schools – Holocaust Subtopic | A curated collection of Holocaust resources for middle school students. |
| Explora for Middle Schools – World War II Subtopic | A curated collection of World War II resources for middle school students. |
| Explora for High Schools | An interface designed for students in grades 9-12 with a focus on the arts, literature, biography, business and careers, current events, geography and culture, health, history, math, science and more. |
| Explora for High Schools – Holocaust Subtopic | A curated collection of Holocaust resources for high school students. |
| Explora for High Schools – World War II Subtopic | A curated collection of World War II resources for high school students. |
| Explora for Educators | A tool designed to help teachers with lesson plans, student tools, curriculum standards, and valuable sites. |
| TeachingBooks for Schools | Developed and maintained to include thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities. |
| TeachingBooks for Schools – “Hour of Need” | A classroom-focused collection of lesson plans, activities, related material lists, and more related to “Hour of Need” |
External Websites
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education | The collections archive is home to more than 59,000 testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust, contemporary antisemitism, the Armenian Genocide, and other mass atrocities and genocidal crimes of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is the largest such collection in the world. |
| United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum inspires citizens and leaders worldwide to confront hatred, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity. |
| Museum of Tolerance: A Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum | The Museum of Tolerance (MOT) is a human rights laboratory and educational center dedicated to challenging visitors to understand the Holocaust in both historic and contemporary contexts and confront all forms of prejudice and discrimination in our world today. |
| A Cybrary of the Holocaust | An interface designed for students in grades K-5 with a focus on the arts, literature, biography, business and careers, current events, geography and culture, health, history, math, science and more. |
| Echoes & Reflections | Echoes & Reflections provides educators with the resources and professional development necessary to develop the motivation, knowledge, and capacity required to teach the Holocaust responsibly, accurately, and effectively. |
Searching EVPL’s Collection Using Subject Headings
When searching with the library’s online catalog, try searching with these subject titles for more accurate results. To switch to searching by subject, be sure to select “subject” from the drop-down menu.
Quick Subject Searches in the EVPL Collection
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Jewish
- Holocaust survivors — Personal narratives
- World War, 1939-1945 — Jewish resistance — Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945 — Jews — Rescue.
- World War, 1939-1945 — Underground movements.
- Gays — Nazi persecution
- Jewish Women in the Holocaust
- World War, 1939-1945 — Children.
- People with disabilities –Nazi persecution
