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Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies GuidesUniversity of Minnesota Guides on Armenian Genocide, Cambodian Genocide, Daesh/Islamic State, the Holocaust, the Holodomor (Ukranian Genocide), the Dakota War of 1862, and the Rwandan Genocide written by Ph.D. candidates and scholars in the field providing a basic overview, including events that led up to the violence and local and international responses, key actors, important terminology, and links to authoritative sources for further reading.
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Holocaust and Genocide StudiesComprehensive guide on resources related to Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
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Key Resources for Holocaust Studies
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A Companion to the Holocaust by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781118970508Publication Date: 2020Six broad multidiciplinary sections cover wide-ranging topics such as new debates about Nazi perpetrators, arguments about the causes and places of persecution of Jews in Germany and Europe, and Jewish and non-Jewish responses to it, the use of forced labor in the German war economy, representations of the Holocaust witness, and many others. This volume includes discussions on non-European and non-Western geographies, inter-ethnic tensions, and violence. -
Historical Dictionary of the Holocaust (3rd edition) by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781538130162Publication Date: 2020Beginning with the roots of anti-Semitism in early Christian Europe, this book traces the evolution of the Jewish stereotype as the evil “other,” which culminated in the Holocaust against the Jews. It includes most recent scholarship on the Holocaust which reflects the recent rise of Neo-Nazism, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia throughout the West, including the United States.This third edition of Historical Dictionary of the Holocaust contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography.
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Holocaust Encyclopedia (US Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Online Encyclopedia. It includes 850 articles in English, hundreds of which have been translated into 15 languages, including Arabic, Farsi, Russian, and Spanish. Updated in 2018, the encyclopedia also includes photographs, films, and oral testimonies. -
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies' ResourcesBooks, videos, digital collection, research guides, and more from UMN's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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Holocaust Studies Collections (Archives Unbound)This collection incorporates anti-Semitic propaganda, correspondence from prisoners, documents from resistance groups, bank records from Nazi financiers, eyewitness accounts from concentration camps, and more.
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