Select Websites

The Shoah Memorial offers visitors a selection of links on the history of the destruction of European Jewry, the genocides of the 20th century and the life of Jews during the period of World War II. This commented sitography is regularly updated.

In order to improve this tool, we kindly ask you to inform us of any problems – difficulties accessing the selected sites, broken links – and to provide us with the addresses of the sites likely to enhance our selection.

The Memorial sites

The releases from the camps and the return of the deportees : How did the deportees experience the last moments before their release? How were they repatriated to France? What reception did they receive there? This site attempts to highlight the great diversity of experiences of "liberation" and return, the difficult understanding by French society of the experience of the deportees and the specific fate of the Jews in the immediate post-war period.
http://liberation-camps.memorialdelashoah.org/introduction.html

Reparations and restitution for the victims of the Shoah in France : If you were deported during the Second World War, or if you are a child of a deportee, it is possible for you to create a file to obtain compensation for the damage suffered. This possibility also applies to people who have been deprived of their material or financial assets. On what criteria? For what purpose? Our answers.
http://holocaust-compensation-france.memorialdelashoah.org/indemnisation-deportation/indemnisation-shoah.html

The fate of the Gypsies (Roma and Sinti) during the Second World War : This website provides information on the genocide of the Sinti and Roma in Europe, primarily for teachers and students.
<romasintigenocide.eu/fr/home

Museums and memorials

Virtual Shtetl: the website of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews
This site dedicated to the history of Polish Jews aims to become a forum open to all people interested in Judeo-Polish history.
(site in English, Polish, German and Hebrew)
<sztetl.org.pl

Foundation for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
(German site, English version):
–stiftung-denkmal.de

Stiftung Topographie des Terrors:
<topographie.de/

Anne Frank Stichting:
<annefrank.nl

Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
http://.dhm.de/

Ghetto fighters’ house:
http://.gfh.org.il/

Jüdisches Museum Wien:
http://.jmw.at

Caen Memorial – History for Peace:
http://www.memorial-caen.fr/fr/index.php

Amsterdam Resistance Museum:
<verzetsmuseum.org

Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre:
<bethshalom.com

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:
–ushmm.org

Yad Vashem:
‐yadvashem.org/

The Dutch Theatre (Monument and Museum on the persecution of Dutch Jews from 1940 to 1945):
http://www.hollandscheschouwburg.nl

Museum of Art and History of Judaism:
<mahj.org/

Jewish Museum in Prague:
http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/aindex.htm

Jewish Museum Berlin:
http://www.juedisches-museum-berlin.de/site/DE/homepage.php

Jewish Museum of Vienna:
http://.jmw.at/

Memorial of the Argelès-sur-Mer camp:
• memorial-argeles.eu/fr/

Jewish Museum of Amsterdam:
biarritz/

Jewish Museum of London:
http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/

Buenos Aires Holocaust Museum
http://www.museodelholocausto.org.ar/

Memorial Democràtic – Audiovisual Bank of Testimonies:
Collection of interviews covering the period 1931-1980 on the themes of political memories, life stories, personal and family experiences under the Second Spanish Republic, the Civil War, the Franco dictatorship, exile, the struggle for democratic freedoms or the Spanish Transition.
http://bancmemorial.gencat.cat/web/home/? &lang=fra

Libraries and archives

AFZ (Archiv für Zeitgeschichte an der Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich):
<afz.ethz.ch/

Supplemental Knowledge of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation:
<doew.at/

Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies:
http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/

German Historical Museum, Berlin:
http://.dhm.de/

Fondation Auschwitz Stichting:
<auschwitz.be/

Holocaust Teacher Resource Center (TRC):
<holocaust-trc.org/

Archives of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
http://archives.jdc.org

The raids on the premises of the Clandestine Communist Party from 1941 to 1944: a geolocation experiment
http://anrpaprika.hypotheses.org/4146

School and university research

The Stephen Roth Institute for the study of contemporary antisemitism and racism is a resource for information, provides a forum for academic discussion and fosters continuing research on issues related to antisemitic and racist theories and manifestations. The social and political exploitation of these phenomena in the period since the end of the Second World War, and the influence of their historical background, constitute the main focus of the Institute.
access the site: https://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/

Chronicle of the Shoah: Like the book itself, the Chronicle of the Shoah website is an ideal tool for high school students, academics, teachers and researchers. This site is of particular importance for people concerned with the Shoah, students specializing in Judaism and the history of Judaism, and anyone wishing to study this phenomenon, the events that preceded it and those that followed.
access the site: http://www.chronique-shoah.com/

The INA websites, audiovisual resources online

Milestones: the Second World War, international relations, French political life, economic and social changes, cultural policies and practices, history of science and technology: INA has selected for you documents of a heritage nature, allowing to trace in images and sounds nearly a century of present-day history.
Each document is accompanied by a backgrounder, historical and media context notes written by historians and the full transcript of the soundtrack.
access the site: http://fresques.ina.fr/jalons/accueil

Organizations and associations

UNESCO: education to perpetuate the memory of the Holocaust:
Faced with the challenge of not just promoting but making effective respect for human rights, fundamental freedoms and the values of tolerance and mutual respect, UNESCO recognizes that teaching the lessons of the Holocaust is essential to achieving this goal.
access the site: http://portal.unesco.org/education/fr/ev.php-URL_ID=57734&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education Remembrance and Research:
http://www.holocausttaskforce.org/

CASIP-COJASOR: The Israelite Social Action Committee of Paris is an institution created on 24 October 1809 under the aegis of the Israelite Consistory of France. It was in 1963 that he took the name CASIP. From its inception, he worked to combat poverty within the Jewish community of Paris. Over time, several activities have developed: soup kitchens, loan fund, cloakroom, retirement homes, institutions for children or students, and assistance to the unemployed.

COJASOR: (Jewish Committee for Social Action and Reconstruction), created in hiding, was officially born after the Second World War with the aim of helping the survivors of the Holocaust. General body for assistance to victims of Nazi atrocities, it set up with the help of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC or "Joint") and the High Commissioner for Refugees, an important mechanism for providing relief and assistance, particularly to the elderly. A first Retirement Home was opened in Aix-les-Bains in 1945, then a second one in Nice in 1949.
access the site: http://www.casip-cojasor.fr/fondation-casip-cojasor.html

Places of memory of the German occupation and resistance in France and Italy 1939-1945: This site, set up by the German Center for the Study of the German Resistance 1939-1945, aims to encourage Germans to visit the places of memory of the Second World War. This directory of places of memory offers an interactive map of Europe and brief information on more than 700 places of memory. It also offers a search by biographies and keywords.
access the site: http://www.gedenkorte-europa.eu/content/list/146/

Anti-Defamation League
<adl.org

AMCHA:
http://www.amcha.org/indexEn.htm

AME 43 (Association pour la Mémoire de l'Eté 43):

https://ame43.org/fr/

Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensschmitt (website in German):
<as>ev.de/

ANED (Associazione Nazionale exde> Liquid Foreign Languages, website in Italian, with English version):
<deportati.it

A cybrary of the Holocaust:
<remember.org/

National Federation of Deportees and Internees, Resistants and Patriots: http://.fndirp.asso.fr
Fondation Auschwitz Stichting: <auschwitz.be/

Foundation for the Memory of the Deportation: Created in 1990, the Foundation for the Memory of the Deportation has set itself the goal of perpetuating the memory of the Internment and the Deportation beyond the generation of witnesses and to make known the values that are derived from it.
http://.fmd.asso.fr

Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah:
<fondationshoah.org/

Arranged Return:
://dienst.at/

Holocaust Teacher Resource Center (TRC):
<holocaust-trc.org/

A "ordinary exile", site on the destinies of the Jewish regulatees of the Great Reich.
http://.exilordinaire.org

The Holocaust History Project
http://www.holocaust-history.org/

Simon Wiesenthal Center:
–wiesenthal.com/

The Territories of Memory:
http://www.territoires-memoire.be/

GenAmi, international Jewish genealogy association:
<genami.org

French association Buchenwald, Dora et Kommandos:
> buchenwald-dora.fr/

AJPN (Anonymous, Just and Persecuted during the Nazi period)
<ajpn.org