This list was originally compiled for White Rose Student Essay Contest research. Most books and non-linked resources are available in the MCHE Resource Center.
The list is not exhaustive and teachers are encouraged to help students find additional resources. MCHE urges caution when conducting open web-based searches for Holocaust research. Please require your students to link through trusted sites such as the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Germany
- Anti-Jewish Legislation in Prewar Germany
- Antisemitic Legislation 1933-1939
- Friedländer, Saul. Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939. New York: Harper Collins, 1997.
- German and Austrian Jewish Refugees in Shanghai
- German Jewish Life
- German Jewish Refugees 1933-1939
- Germany: Jewish Population in 1933
- Jewish Emigration from Germany and Austria, 1933-1939, According to Destination (Map)
- Kaplan, Marion A. Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Nazi Germany and Anti-Jewish Policy
- Nuremberg Laws
- Nuremberg Race Laws: Defining the Nation
- Refugees
- The Story of the Jewish Community in Würzburg (online exhibition)
Austria
- Anschluss
- Annexation of Austria (film)
- First Attempt of the Nazi Party to Expel Viennese Jewry
- German and Austrian Jewish Refugees in Shanghai
- German Prewar Expansion
- Jewish Emigration from Germany and Austria, 1933-1939, According to Destination (Map)
- Refugees
- Report by Eichmann on his Activities in Vienna
- Vienna
Sudetenland
People
Emigration
- Dwork, Deborah and Jan Van Pelt, Robert. Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933-1946.
- Emigration and the Evian Conference
- Jewish Immigration to the U.S. – an Article From the Jewish Press in Berlin, November 1937
- Matthäus, Jürgen and Mark Roseman. Jewish Responses to Persecution. Volume I. 1933-1938.
- “No One Wants to Have Them” – Voelkischer Beobachter
- Regulations by the German Ministry of Economics of August 1933, Concerning Conditions for Ha’avara
- Report of the SD on the Outcome of the Evian Conference
- Return to Europe of the St. Louis
- Wartime Fate of the Passengers of the St. Louis
Immigration
- America and the Holocaust (documentary)
- Americans and the Holocaust (online exhibition)
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and Refugee Aid
- The Evian Conference
- Evian Conference Fails to Aid Refugees (film)
- Feingold, Henry. Bearing Witness: How America and It’s Jews Responded to the Holocaust. pp. 73-93.
- Hayes, Peter. How Was It Possible? Chapter 3: Impediments to Escape.
- The Immigration Act of 1924 (Johnson-Reed Act)
- Immigration to the United States 1933-1941
- Jewish Immigration to the U.S. – an Article From the Jewish Press in Berlin, November 1937
- Legal Immigration to Palestine under British Mandate from Germany and Austria in the 1930s
- Photographs from the Evian Conference
- Quakers
- Refuge in Latin America
- Seeking Refuge in Cuba, 1939
- The United States and the Holocaust
- The United States and the Nazi Threat 1933-1937
- The United States and the Refugee Crisis 1938-1941
- Wagner-Rogers Bill
Kristallnacht
- Berenbaum, Michael, editor. “The November Pogroms: Kristallnacht and Its Aftermath.” In Witness to the Holocaust, 40-68. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1997.
- Description of the Riot in Dinslaken
- Heydrich’s Telegram
- Info Quest: Kristallnacht
- “It Came from Within…” (online exhibition)
- Kristallnacht
- Kristallnacht: “Night of Broken Glass”
- Letter Describing The Deportation To Zbaszyn, December 1938
- Letter from Margarete Drexler to Gestapo following Kristallnacht
- Report by the German Ambassador in Washington on Reactions to Kristallnacht in the United States
- Report From ‘’Voelkisher Beobachter’’ About the Funeral Service for Ernst vom Rath
Kindertransport
- Children During the Holocaust
- Dwork, Deborah and Jan Van Pelt, Robert. Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933-1946.
- For the Children
- Harris, Mark Jonathan and Deborah Oppenheimer. Into the Arms of Strangers.
- Into the Arms of Strangers (documentary)
- Kindertransport
- The Kindertransport Association
- Kindertransport – National Archives of the United Kingdom
- My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports (documentary)
- Nicholas Winton and the Rescue of Children from Czechoslovakia 1938-1939
- Six Stories of the Kindertransport
- Wasserstein, Bernard. Britain and the Jews of Europe 1939-1945.
St. Louis
General Resources – Online
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Holocaust Encyclopedia
- The Holocaust: A Learning Site for Students
- Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance
- Jewish Virtual Library
- Yad Vashem
General Primary Source Materials – Online