Finding Articles Useful 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, print articles, websites, and books at the Thomas Tredway Library.

Finding Articles
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," "concentration camps," or "Auschwitz," and then to refine your search as needed.

Online Databases
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!

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 and professional journals in full text format.  For this class, a useful way to use this resource would be to search for terms relating to the Holocaust, such as "Auschwitz," "concentration camp," or "Nuremberg" in an Advanced Search, specifying date in the mid to late-1940s.

Print Resources

Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature
REF AI 3 .R48
These big green books are the tool with which you can find popular magazine articles from the 1940s.  This is a great way to see how Americans learned about the atrocities in Nazi Europe as the news unfolded.

The Observer
Special Collections, 1st Floor of the Library
Augustana's student newspaper is a great source for finding out how the Augustana community existed during the 1940s.  The is scant coverage of world events, but some post-war issues are covered in editorials and student activities (including a model U.N.)

The New York Times
Microfilm collection, 1st floor of the Library
Augustana's collection of the "Newspaper of Record" extends well into the nineteenth century.  Consult the New York Times Index (located in the reference section) to find the date, page, and column of articles on the war and the Holocaust.

Useful Websites
The following websites offer access to primary sources relating to 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.

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.

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 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.

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--Atrocities
Germany--Politics
Germany--History
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Public opinion
Holocaust survivors

I-Share Libraries (combined catalogs of 71 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 23, 2007.
Compiled by Brent Etzel, Reference Librarian.