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.
Resources
- 11th Armoured Division (Great Britain)
- 150 Survivors of Pogrom in Kielce, Poland, to be evacuated, J.D.C. Advised – July 19, 1945
- The 71st Came to Gunskirchen
- Aftermath of the Holocaust
- A Liberator’s Letter Home, May 2, 1945
- The Anguish of Holocaust Survivors – by Henry Cohen was the Director of Camp Foehrenwald
- American Joint Distribution Committee
- Art of Private Tokatchev
- Bardgett, Suzanne, and David Cesarani, editors. Belsen 1945: New Historical Perspectives.
- Belkhatov Without Jews – Yoysef Raykh
- “Belsen Camp: A Preliminary Report” in British Medical Journal – June 9, 1945
- Bergen-Belsen
- Bergen-Belsen
- Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp
- Brown, Jean, editor. Images from the Holocaust: A Literature Anthology.
- British White Paper, 1939
- Buchenwald
- Buchenwald
- Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials
- Buchenwald Liberation Photographs
- Buchenwald: Report by Edward R. Murrow
- Charter of the International Military Tribunal
- Conference on Palestine and Illegal Immigration to Palestine – August 1, 1946
- Dachau
- Dachau
- The Dachau Concentration Camp after Liberation by Barbara Distel
- Dachau Memorial
- Death Marches
- Displaced Persons
- Displaced Persons
- Displaced Persons: Administration
- Displaced Person’s Camp by Lucille Eichengreen
- Eisenhower Library Holocaust Document Collection
- Flanagan, Ben, and Donald Bloxham, editors. Remembering Belsen: Eyewitnesses Record the Liberation.
- Greenfield, Howard. After the Holocaust.
- The Harrison Report
- International Military Tribunal Collection – Yale Law School
- International Military Tribunal Defendants
- Justice Robert Jackson’s Opening Statement for the Prosecution at the International Military Tribunal
- Kielce Pogrom
- Lavsky, Hagit. New Beginnings: Holocaust Survivors in Bergen-Belsen and the British Zone in Germany, 1945-1950.
- Liberation of Buchenwald April 1945 in LIFE Magazine (warning: graphic images)
- Liberation of Buchenwald – memories of Harry Herder
- Liberation of the Nazi Camps
- Life Reborn: Jewish Displaced Persons Online Exhibition
- Ohrdruf
- Postwar Refugee Crisis and the Establishment of the State of Israel
- Religious service at Dachau – May 3, 1945
- Report Dachau
- Report from the Dachau Liberation – First Lt. William Cowling
- Report, “Inspection of German concentration camp for political prisoners located at Buckenwald [sic] on the north edge of Weimar – made by Brig. Gen. Eric F. Wood, Lt. Col. Chas. H. Ott, and CWO. S.M. Dye, on the morning of 16th April 1945.”
- Report on the Liberation of Ohrdruf
- Truman Directive – December 22, 1945
- Soviet quotes about liberation
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Liberation 1945.
- “We Do Not Want Revenge” — from the speech given by Dr. Zalman Grinberg
Testimony
- Cwick, Howard (Buchenwald liberator)
- Edelbaum, Dora
- Flekier, Abe
- Gutovitz, Abe
- I Witness Testimony Archive – (requires teacher log-in and allowing access for students)
- Local survivor testimony – MCHE
- Mason, Anton
- Sarah Mittelman’s testimony of returning to Poland after the war
- Nisenkier, Mina
- Schick, Otto
- Stras, Malvina
- Tevet, Alegra
- USHMM Testimonies
- Voices of the Holocaust – David Boder Testimony Archive
- Warren, Aron
- Warshawski, Sonia
- Zemelman, Rose
Maps
- Aftermath of the Holocaust
- Liberation of Major Nazi Camps, 1945
- Major Camps for Jewish Displaced Persons
Art
- Belsen Art
- Fink, Ida. “The Tenth Man. A Scrap of Time and Other Stories.
Videos
- Auschwitz
- Bergen-Belsen
- Bergen-Belsen liberation – historical film footage (warning: some graphic imagery)
- Dachau after liberation – historical film footage (warning: graphic content)
- Displaced Persons Leave for the United States – 1949
- Jewish refugees arrive in Haifa and are interned – Haifa, Palestine, 1946
- Liberation of Bergen-Belsen – historical film footage (warning: graphic content)
- Liberation of Bergen-Belsen – historical film footage (warning: graphic content)
- Liberation of Buchenwald – historical film footage
- Liberation of Dachau – historical film footage (warning: graphic content)
- Robert Jackson opening statement at the International Military Tribunal – November 21, 1945
- Newsreel coverage of Bergen-Belsen trial
- Polish newsreel coverage of the funeral of the Jewish victims of the Kielce Pogrom – 1946
- US Soldiers care for Dachau survivors – historical film footage
Teaching Resources
General Resources – Online
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Holocaust Encyclopedia
- The Holocaust: A Learning Site for Students
- History of the Holocaust: An Overview
- Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance
- Jewish Virtual Library
- Yad Vashem
General Primary Source Materials – Online