Selection of websites

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The sites of the Memorial

Releases from camps and return of deportees : How did the deportees experience the last moments before their release? How were they repatriated to France? How were they welcomed? 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 Holocaust in France : If you were deported during the Second World War, or are a child of a deportee, you can file a claim to obtain compensation for the damage suffered. This possibility is also valid for persons who have been deprived of their material or financial assets. On what criteria? For what purposes? Our answers.
http://holocaust-compensation-france.memorialdelashoah.org/indemnisation-deportation/indemnisation-shoah.html

The fate of Gypsies (Roma and Sinti) during the Second World War : This site provides information on the genocide of the Sinti and Roma in Europe. It is primarily aimed at teachers and students.
http://www.romasintigenocide.eu/fr/home

Museums and memorials

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

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

Stiftung Topographie des Terrors:
http://www.topographie.de/

Anne Frank Stichting:
http://www.annefrank.nl

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

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

Jüdisches Museum Wien
http://www.jmw.at

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

Amsterdam Resistance Museum:
http://www.verzetsmuseum.org

Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre:
http://www.bethshalom.com

US Holocaust Memorial Museum:
http://www.ushmm.org

Yad Vashem:
http://www.yadvashem.org/

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

Museum of Art and History of Judaism:
http://www.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 in Vienna:
http://www.jmw.at/

Memorial of the camp at Argelès-sur-Mer:
http://www.memorial-argeles.eu/en/

Jewish Museum in Amsterdam:
http://www.jhm.nl/

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

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

Memorial Democràtic – Banque Audiovisuelle de Témoignages:
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=eng

Libraries and archives

AFZ (Archiv für Zeitgeschichte an der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule in Zürich):
http://www.afz.ethz.ch/

Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes:
http://www.doew.at/

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

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

Auschwitz Stichting:
http://www.auschwitz.be/

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

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

The searches of premises of the clandestine Communist Party from 1941 to 1944: an attempt at geolocation
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 linked to antisemitic and racist theories and manifestations. The social and political exploitation of these phenomena in the period since the end of World War II, 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, the Chronicle of the Shoah website is an ideal tool for high school students, academics, teachers and researchers. This site is of particular importance to those affected by the Shoah, students of Judaism and the history of Judaism, and anyone interested in studying the phenomenon, the events that preceded it and those that followed.
access the site: http://www.chronique-shoah.com/

The INA sites, online audiovisual resources

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 with a heritage character, to trace in images and sounds almost a century of history of the present time.
Each document is accompanied by a fact sheet, historical and media background notes written by historians, and the complete transcription of the soundtrack.
access the site: http://fresques.ina.fr/jalons/accueil

Organizations and associations

UNESCO: Education for the Holocaust:
Faced with the challenge of not merely promoting but making effective respect for human rights, fundamental freedoms and 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/en/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 Committee for Israeli Social Action in Paris is an institution, created on 24 October 1809 under the aegis of the Consistory of Israel in France. In 1963, it was renamed CASIP. From its inception, it 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, assistance to the unemployed.

COJASOR: (Jewish Committee of Social Action and Reconstruction), created in hiding, was officially born after the Second World War to help the survivors of the Shoah. General body for assistance to victims of Nazi abuses, established with the help of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC or “Joint”) and the High Commissioner for Refugees, an important facility for providing relief and assistance, especially 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 Centre for Studies of the German Resistance 1939-1945, aims to encourage Germans to visit places of memory of the Second World War. This directory of places of remembrance offers an interactive map of Europe and brief information on more than 700 places of remembrance. It also offers a search by biographies and keywords.
access the site: http://www.gedenkorte-europa.eu/content/list/146/

Anti-Defamation League:
http://www.adl.org

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

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

https://ame43.org/en/ 

Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste (site in German):
http://www.aswellev.de/

ANED (Associazione nazionale ex deportati politici nei campi nazisti):
http://www.deportati.it

A cybrary of the Holocaust:
http://www.remember.org/

Fédération Nationale des Déportés et Internés Résistants et Patriotes: http://www.fndirp.asso.fr
Auschwitz Stichting: http://www.auschwitz.be/

Foundation for the Memory of Deportation: Created in 1990, the Foundation for the Memory of Deportation has set itself the objective of perpetuating the memory of internment andbeyond the generation of witnesses and to make known the values that have emerged from them.
http://www.fmd.asso.fr

Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah:
http://www.fondationshoah.org/

Gedenkdienst:
http://www.gedenkdienst.at/

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

An «ordinary exile», site on the fates of the Jewish rulers of the Great Reich.
http://www.exilordinaire.org

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

Simon Wiesenthal Center:
http://www.wiesenthal.com/

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

GenAmi, International Jewish Genealogy Association:
http://www.genami.org

French Association Buchenwald, Dora and Kommandos:
http://www.buchenwald-dora.fr/

AJPN (Anonymous, Righteous and Persecuted during the Nazi period)
http://www.ajpn.org

Camps

Auschwitz:
http://www.auschwitz.org/

Buchenwald:
http://www.buchenwald.de/

Mauthausen:
http://www.mauthausen-memorial.gv.at/

Ravensbrück:
http://www.ravensbrueck.de

Vernet d'Ariège:
http://www.campduvernet.eu/

Camp des Milles:
http://www.campdesmilles.org

Natzweiler Camp – Struthof:
http://www.struthof.fr

Bergen-Belsen:
http://www.bergenbelsen.de/en/

Dachau:
http://www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de/index-e.html

Press

Anti-Defamation League:
http://www.adl.org

afz (Archiv für Zeitgeschichte an der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule in Zürich):
http://www.afz.ethz.ch/

Alliance:
http://www.alliancefr.com/

Review: Les cahiers de la Shoah:
http://www.anti-rev.org/textes/CahiersDeLaShoah/

Jewish communities

Consistory of Paris:
http://www.consistoire.org

Alliance:
http://www.alliancefr.com/

Miscellaneous

Against denial:
http://www.phdn.org/

Documentary resources on the Nazi genocide and its denial:
http://www.anti-rev.org/

The national contest of resistance and deportation in the Oise:
http://crdp.ac-amiens.fr/cddpoise/concours_resistance/index.php3/

Ministry of Defence site presenting national sites of remembrance:
http://www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr/

For the record/ Family sites

Jewish memory and education, the site hosted by Dominique Natanson:
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/d-d.natanson/index.html

Ben Attar, Calef, Fernandez family:
http://www.tranchedesurvie.org

Georges Gheldman:
http://www.gheldman.com

The children’s home in Sèvre:
http://lamaisondesevres.org/

The Feifer family:
http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/Elie_Et_Pierre_Feifer/

Gabriel Tellechea:
http://www.gabriel-tellechea.net

Biezunski Michel family:
http://www.flinescaussade.com/

Franck Fajnkuchen : https://www.lens-memorialunecommunauté.fr

Directories

David Dickersons Holocaust and Shoah index:
http://www.igc.apc.org/ddickerson/holocaust.html

Holocaust – About link page:
http://holocaust.tqn.com/education/holocaust/

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

Search engine for Israel and Judaism in French:
http://www.israelweb.co.il

Documentary resources on the Nazi genocide and its denial:
http://www.anti-rev.org/

Torah and Judaism on the Internet:
http://www.col.fr/webj.htm

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC):
http://search.archives.jdc.org

Help for searching the JDC site:
http://archives.jdc.org/explore-the-archives/using-the-archives.html

Index of names (JDC site):
http://archives.jdc.org/sharedlegacy/search-names/