Online Databases Websites Reference Books Circulating Books

Here is a guide to finding information for research in for your fall 2007 College Writing class.  Your main resources are online periodical databases, websites, and books at the Thomas Tredway Library.

Online Databases
The following databases are a great place to start to find secondary sources relating to the Holocaust that have been published in scholarly journals and books.  An effective way to search is to start with a broad topic, such as "holocaust" or "Nazism," and then to refine your search as needed.

Most of the following databases specialize in an area of academic scholarship (history, religion, political science, etc.)  Many of the possible research topics for this class are relevant to multiple academic disciplines, so be encouraged to try several different databases for information!

Arts & Humanities Search
Indexes articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, and reviews in more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.

Historical Abstracts
An index of scholarly articles on topics relating to the history of the world from 1450 to the present. Published since 1954, this database comprises over half a million entries. 

JSTOR Journal Archive
This resource stores hundreds of scholarly journals in full text format, including many of the humanities journals in our collection.  Journals can be searched individually of in groups.  Articles from volume one up to between two and five years form the current date are available.

Religion Index (ATLA)
A database containing citations and full text to more than 1100 international journals, essays, and publications in religion and related fields.  Articles relating to the religious nature of the National Socialism, the Holocaust, or 20th century Jewish life, may be found here.

Social Sciences Abstracts
This database contains indexing for more than 500 publications covering a wide range of interdisciplinary fields such as addiction studies, anthropology, corrections, economics, gender studies, gerontology, minority studies, political sciences, psychology, sociology. Indexing coverage dates back to 1983, and abstracts date back to 1994.

Websites
The following websites offer access to primary sources relating to the Holocaust and the Third Reich.

Holocaust Historical Documents Nazi Propaganda

The Holocaust

Best of the Internet: The Holocaust
Maintained by St. Ambrose University's O'Keefe Library, this website offers several links to online resources relating to the Holocaust.

Eisenhower Library Collection: Documents on the Holocaust
Maintained by the University of Texas Library, this website contains several correspondences of General Eisenhower regarding German atrocities.

Holocaust History Project
"The Holocaust History Project is a free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust-denial."

Simon Wiesenthal Center
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust. The Center's Museum of Tolerance Online Multimedia Learning Center is a good resource for online documents and resources related to the Holocaust.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The Museum's website includes an online Holocaust Encyclopedia, Online Exhibits, and, most important for your research, a collection of personal histories.

Voices of the Holocaust
Maintained by the British Library, this is a collection of recorded oral history testimonies gathered from Jewish men and women who immigrated to Great Britain. The testimonies are personal, individual, true stories, which describe life during the Holocaust.

Historical Documents

Assorted Documents: The Avalon Project
The Yale Law School maintains this collection of documents from 20th Century History.  Documents listed include the German Declaration of War against the United States, documents related to Spanish-German diplomatic relations, and the 1940 Tripartite Pact between Germany, Japan, and Italy.

The Munich Agreement: Documents
Maintained by Yale Law School's Avalon Project, the website offers documents relating to the 1938 Munich Pact, the agreement that British Prime Minister Chamberlain believed would bring "peace in our time."

National Socialism and World War II: Primary Documents
A broad collection of online documents, maintained by the Brigham Young University library.  Many documents are listed with its English translation.  The BYU library also maintains a collection of documents relating to the Weimar Republic.

The Nuremberg Trials Collection
Also maintained by Yale Law School's Avalon Project, this website offers an extensive collection of documents relating to the International Military Tribunal for Germany, 1945-1946.

World War II Resources: The Ibiblio Project
Maintained by the University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill, this is a wide collection of documents relating to the Second World War.  Notable documents include a collection on Nazi-Soviet relations, and documents on the German surrender.

Nazi Propaganda

German Propaganda Archive
Maintained by Calvin College, this website is an excellent source for essays, posters, cartoons, and other media produced by Nazis in the first half of the 20th Century.

Nazi Propaganda Posters
Maintained by the BBC, this is a small collection of Nazi posters, each with a brief description.

Reference Books

Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution
REF DS 146 .E8 A58 2005
The resource covers anti-Semitism worldwide.  Several articles cover people and events related to the Third Reich.

Atlas of Nazi Germany
REF DD 256.5 .F73354 1987
This resource contains more than just a collection of maps.  It also includes are charts explaining the ideology of National Socialism, the hierarchy of the Nazi administration, and graphs and tables relating to aspects of the German economy and population during the Nazi period.

Atlas of the Holocaust
REF D 804.3 .G54 1993
Hundreds of black-and-white maps providing information on Jewish deportations, resistance movements, concentration camps, and more.

Auschwitz Chronicle: 1939-1945
REF D 805 .P7 C8173 1989
A daily record of the events that occurred at Auschwitz during the Second World War.

The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust
REF DS 135 .E8 E45 2001
This is a three-volume encyclopedia is a fantastic reference resource for students who are researching topics relating to the Holocaust.  This includes an extensive list of topics, as well as maps, photographs, and chronology of the Holocaust.

Encyclopedia of Genocide
REF HV 6322.7 .E53 1999
A great resource for the second essay for this class!

Encyclopedia of the Holocaust
REF D 804.3 .E53 1990
A thorough, multi-volume resource for secondary articles on the Holocaust.

The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich
REF DD 256.5 .G76313 1991
A two-volume resource covering a broad range of topics relating to Nazi Germany.  This encyclopedia includes an extensive bibliography of books that are either in our collection or available through interlibrary loan.

Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History
REF E18.75 .G48 2005
A unique, three-volume resource providing secondary information on the relationship between the United States and Germany. Though many articles provide information on German-Americans, there are also several articles relating to the relationship between the two countries, their peoples, and the Second World War.

Who's Who in Nazi Germany
REF DD 256.5 .W564 1995
This is a useful resource for students researching the inner workings of the Nazi government and military. 

The World Reacts to the Holocaust
REF D 804.44 .W67 1996
A secondary resource that provides record of the reactions, by country, of the Holocaust during and after the Second World War.

Circulating Books

ALiCat
Thomas Tredway Library's online book catalog.  For this assignment, search for materials by either using "Boolean Search" (using and, or, not; putting phrases in quotes), or "Browse Subject" (some terms to use: World War, 1939-1945; Germany--Politics; Germany--History; Holocaust, Jewish 1939-1945.)

I-Share Libraries (combined catalogs of 65 Illinois academic libraries)
A direct link to the combined catalogs of Augustana and other academic libraries in Illinois.  The I-Share catalog allows for members of the Augustana community to locate and borrow from millions of books and other items from academic libraries across the state.

Last updated September 19, 2007.
Compiled by Brent Etzel, Reference Librarian.