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THE HOLOCAUST

Last update: March 1999, by Margaret Hosking

This is a selective guide to WWW resources, databases, reference items and other BSL sources .
For further assistance, please contact Margaret Hosking , Research Librarian for History
(ph. 8303 3706)........... email .........mhosking@library.adelaide.edu.au
"The Holocaust" is a Second and Third Year Level subject jointly offered
by Peter Monteath of the Department of European Studies  andDavid Hart of the Department of History.
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THE CATALOGUE

DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, HANDBOOKS, ATLASES, CHRONOLOGIES
Jews and the Holocaust
Related Topics
..........Europe in general
..........Germany/Third Reich
..........Homosexuals
.........Motion pictures
.........Social Concepts

BIOGRAPHY

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jews, Anti-Semitism, Resistance and the Holocaust
........General
........Germany
.......Elsewhere
.......Denial
Related topics
........Fascism
........German history, politics and society
........Gypsies
........Women

INDEXES TO JOURNAL ARTICLES
General and Interdisciplinary
Art
Book reviews
History
Social sciences
Literature
Motion pictures
Women

PRIMARY SOURCES
Newspapers and Current Affairs ...........Resistance journals - France..............Fascist journals - Great Britain

WWW RESOURCES

THE GUIDE

THE CATALOGUE
The Barr Smith Library holds a large number of resources for research on the Holocaust.
The Catalogue is your key to finding them.
Use Keyword (option 5) and Keyword from subject heading (option 6) with terms such as:
Holocaust..........Sources
Holocaust.........Personal narratives
Jews .........Biography
Germany .........Ethnic
Jews .........Germany
Holocaust.........Literature
Holocaust.........Art
Holocaust .........Motion pictures
Hitler .........Videorecording

Use option 4 (Author) for writings by particular people and
Option 7 (Subject Heading) for writings about particular people.

DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, HANDBOOKS, ATLASES, CHRONOLOGIES

Jews and the Holocaust

REF/909.04924/A161b
Blackwell companion to Jewish culture,. ed. G. Abramson, 1989

REF/296.03/C678b
Blackwell dictionary of Judaica. ed. Dan Cohn-Sherbok. 1992.

REF/909.04924/C678a
Cohn-Sherbok, D. Atlas of Jewish history. 1994

REF/296.03/E56
Encyclopaedia Judaica . ed. Cecil Roth .16v. 1972 .

REF/909.04924/F912a
Friesel, E. Atlas of modern Jewish history. 1990

REF/940.5318/G465a
Gilbert, M. Atlas of the Holocaust. 1988.

REF/909.04924/G465j
Gilbert, M. Jewish history atlas. 4th ed. 1992

REF/ 940.5318 /U58h
Historical Atlas of the Holocaust, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1996

REF/909.04924/B259j
Historical atlas of the Jewish people. 1992

REF 296.03 W661n
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia, ed. G. Wigoder 1992.

REF/940.5318/E56
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, ed. I. Gutman. 4 vols. 1990.

REF/940.5318 E21h
Edelheit, A. J. History of the Holocaust : a handbook and dictionary , 1994.

REF/940.5318 E212w
Edelheit, H. A world in turmoil : an integrated chronology of the Holocaust and World War II , 1991.

Related Topics
Europe in general

REF/320.94/N625p
Political and economic encyclopaedia of Western Europe, ed. F. Nicholson. 1990.

REF/940.5/C771e.3
Cook, C. European political facts 1918-1990. 1992.

REF/314/M681i
International historical statistics: Europe 1750-1988. 3rd ed. 1992.

Germany/Third Reich
REF/943.003/S6475e
Snyder, L.L. Encyclopedia of the Third Reich 1976.

REF/943.086 096p
Overy, R. The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Third Reich. 1996

REF/943.08603/T243d
Taylor, J. A dictionary of the Third Reich. 1987.

REF 943.08603 K591
Kirk, T. The Longman Companion to Nazi Germany 1995

REF/943.086/F855a
Freeman, M. Atlas of Nazi Germany. 1987.

REF/903/W843
Wörterbuch der Geschichte.
A useful dictionary of 20th century German history/politics, in German.1984.

REF/943.086/B797n
Brackmann, K-H. NS-Deustch: "Selbsvertständliche" Begriffe und schlagwörter aus der zeit des Nationalsozialismus. 1988.

Homosexuals
REF/306.76603/D997e
Dynes, W. Encyclopedia of homosexuality. 1990. See under "Germany" and "Holocaust".

REF/306.76603/S852c
Stewart, W. Cassell's queer companion. 1995.

Motion pictures
REF 791.4365803 L284e
Langman, L. Encyclopedia of American war films. 1989.
Good entry on the Holocaust with cross references to specific films.

Social Concepts
REF/305.8/L6653e
Levinson, D. Ethnic relations: a cross-cultural encyclopedia. 1994

REF/320.5403/S675e
Snyder, L.L. Encyclopedia of nationalism. 1990.

BIOGRAPHY

REF/920/A43
Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. 56v. 1875-1912. Progressively being replaced by:
REF/920/N481
Neue deutsche Biographie. Bd.1- (1953)- (in progress)

REF/943.08603 C834w
Cosner, S. Women under the Third Reich: a biographical dictionary.  1998.

REF/943.086/H217l
Hamilton, C. Leaders and personalities of the Third Reich: their biographies, portraits and autographs. 2 vols.1996.

REF/920/D548
Dictionary of literary biography.

REF/320.54/R328b
Rees, P. Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right since 1890. 1990.

REF/923.208/M817w
Wistrich, R. Who's who in Nazi Germany. 1982.

REF/920/O29
Osterreichisches biographisches Lexikon, 1815-1950. v.1 (1957)-

REF/920/R718b
Rössler, H. Biographisches Wörterbuch zur deutschen Geschichte. 3v. 1975.

REF/920/M235
Wintle, J. Makers of modern culture. 1981.
and
REF/920/M236
Wintle, J. Makers of nineteenth century culture,1800-1914. 1982.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Jews, Anti-Semitism, Resistance and the Holocaust

General
REF/323.11924/C678a
Antisemitism : an annotated bibliography. ed. S. S. Cohen
1987- ?? Vols 1-3.

REF/940.531503924/E21b
Edelheit, A.J. Bibliography on holocaust literature. 1986, and supplement vol 2., 1993..
(Supplement vol 1 on order.)

REF/940.5315016/S998h
Szonyi, D.M. The holocaust: an annotated bibliography and resource guide. 1985.

REF/940.5318016 B655j
Bloomberg, M. The Jewish Holocaust: an annotated guide to books in English. 2nd Ed., 1991.

 REF/940.5318016 S797r
State Library of Victoria. Raoul Wallenberg Holocaust collection. 1996.

REF/364.151016 T719f
Totten, S.  First-person accounts of genocidal acts committed in the twentieth  century : an annotated bibliography.1991.

Germany
REF/305.800943/A917j
"Jewish question" in German-speaking countries, 1848-1914 : a bibliography ed. R R. Auerbach. 1994

REF/943.004924/W64g
German Jewry : its history, life and culture (Wiener Library Catalogue) 1958.

REF/943.086016/ W64p
Persecution and resistance under the Nazis (Wiener Library Catalogue) 1960

REF/940.531016/L345n
Laska, Vera Nazism, resistance and holocaust in World War II: a bibliography. 1985.

REF/943.086016/G613a
Goguel, R. Antifasistischer Widerstand und Klassenkampf; die fasistische Diktatur 1933 bis 1945 und ihre Gegner. 1976.

Elsewhere
REF/946.004924016/S617j
Singerman, R. The Jews in Spain and Portugal : a bibliography. 1975

REF/305.8/H933j
Hundert, G.The Jews in Poland and Russia : bibliographical essays . 1984.

REF/940.53438 O41w
Okonski W. Wartime Poland, 1939-1945: a select annotated bibliography. of books in English. 1997

REF/305.8016/H811e
Horak, S.M. Eastern European national minorities, 1919-1980.

REF/944.0816 E93f
Evleth, D. France under the German occupation, 1940-1944 : an annotated bibliography . 1991

Denial
REF/010.5 B93
Drobnicki, J. A.
Holocaust-Denial literature, a bibliography. The Bulletin of Bibliography, Vol. 51, No. 1 (Mar. 1994): 17-24
Holocaust denial literature, an additional bibliography. The Bulletin of Bibliography, Vol. 53, No. 4 (Dec. 1996): 359-368
A third bibliography. Bulletin of Bibiolgraphy v.55, no.3, Sept. 1998. pp157-168

Related topics

Fascism
REF/320.533/R328fa
Rees, R.Fascism and pre-fascism in Europe, 1890-1945; a bibliography of the extreme right. 1984.

German history, politics and society
REF/943.085016/S775w
Stachura, P.D. The Weimar era and Hitler, 1918-1933. 1977.

REF/943.087016/W64f
From Weimar to Hitler; Germany 1918-1933. 2nd rev. ed. 1964.

REF/943.6051/L912a
Low, A.D. The Anschluss movment 1918-1938; background and aftermath; an annotated bibliography of German and Austrian Nationalism. 1984.

REF/943.08016/K26n
Kehr, H. The nazi era 1919-1945. 1982

REF/943.086/S675t
Snyder, L.L. Third Reich 1933-1945; a bibliographical guide to German National Socialism. 1987

REF/943.0016/B977a
Buse, D.K. German Nationalism; a bibliographic approach. 1985.

REF/943.0016/E23p
Edgington, Peter The politics of the two Germanies: a guide to sources and English-language materials. 1977.

REF/943.0016/W413b
Wehler, H-U. Bibliographie zur modernen deutschen Sozialgeschichte (18.-20. Jahrhundert). 1976.

REF/261.7/M542c
Menendez, A.J. Church-State relations; an annotated bibliography. 1976.
Includes references on the Church during the Nazi era.

REF/943.003/K96
Kulturpolitisches Worterbuch Bundesrepublik Deutschland/ Deutsches Demokratisches Republik im Vergleich. 1983
Encyclopaedic, long signed articles (including on films), references.

REF/943.087016/M572p Merritt, A.J. Politics, economics and society in the two Germanies, 1945-75: a bibliography of English language works. 1978

REF/943.087/P324g
Paul, B.D. Germans after World war II: an English-language bibliography. 1990.

REF/943.087016/W64
After Hitler: Germany 1945-1963. 1963.

REF/943.0016/E23p
Edgington, Peter The politics of the two Germanies: a guide to sources and English-language materials. 1977.

REF/943/G389
Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Bd. 1 1945-1949; Bd. 2 1949-1957; Bd. 3 1975-1963; Bd. 4..1963-1969; Bd. 5.1 1969-1974; Bd. 5.2 1973-1982.

REF/943.087016/P945f
Price, A.H. The Federal Republic of Germany; a select bibliography of English language publications. 2nd. rev ed. 1978.

REF/320.94303/H236
Handwörterbuch zur politischen Kultur des Bundesrepublik Deutschland. 1981

REF/943.1087/I43
Information GDR: the comparative and authoritative reference source of the German Democratic Republic. 2 v. 1989

REF/943.1087016/P945
Price, A.H. East Germany; a selected bibliography. 1967.

REF/943.1016/W189e Wallace, J. East Germany: the GDR. 1987.

Gypsies
REF/305.560816/B614g
Binns, D. A gypsy bibliography. 1982-

Homosexuals
Halsall, P.  Bibliography- -Holocaust and gays. 1995?

Women
REF/305.4016/F845
Die Frauenfrage in Deutschland: Bibliographie 1931-1980. 1982
new series. 3 v. 1983-87.

REF/305.4016/F893w
Frey, L. Women in western European history 1982-84, supp.1986. v. 1 From antiquity to the French revolution, v. 2 The nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

REF/305.4016/G378
Gerritsen collection of women's history 1543-1945. Guide to the microform collection. 2v.
Valuable collection but most works are in German.

REF 940.531016/L345n
Laska, Vera Nazism, resistance and holocaust in World War II: a bibliography. 1985.
Has a particular emphasis on the experience of women.

INDEXES TO JOURNAL ARTICLES

General and Interdisciplinary

Expanded Academic index. Covers 1993- with a backfile 1980-.
Covers more than 1500 journal titles, many of which have full text online.
Very good for recent articles and book reviews.

PCI (Periocicals Contents Index) Article titles forn the contents pages of journal from 1770-1980

ARTICLE 1st(Article First) A large interdisciplinary database available via the Firstsearch service. 1990-

Art

ArtIndex, 1984-

Book Reviews

See the Book Reviews guide on the University of Adelaide Library Information Service.

History

 Historical abstracts. 1971-

Social Sciences

REF/300.5/S6784 Social sciences and humanities index, 1907-1973.
Note that you can search this for contemporary articles from the 1930's and 1940's.
From 1974 published in 2 parts:
Social sciences index v.1 (1974) - v.21 (1994/1995)at the same call number, and
Humanities index at REF/05/H9195, v.1 (1974/1975) - v.21 (1994/1995)

Sociofile 1974-
Direct access from UofA computers is available if you follow the Electronic Reference Library prompts.

Literature

M.L.A. international bibliography. 1921-
Direct access from UofA computers is available if you follow the Electronic Reference Library prompts to Webspirs.

REF/830.5/ G374 Germanistik: Internationales Referatenorgan mit bibliographischen Hinweisen. 1960-
Divided into literary periods and then an alphabetical sequence by writer's name.

Motion pictures

REF/791.405/F487 Film literature index.
1973-
see also MLA Bibliography which includes some articles on film.

PRIMARY SOURCES
Below are listed a small sample of source material in the library.
To find other items search the catalogue by keyword including your topic and the word "sources".

940.5318 F911a
Archives of the Holocaust : an international collection of selected  documents, ed.  Henry Friedlander and Sybil Milton. 1989-
24 vols.

943.085/M621
Michaelis, H. Ursachen und Folgen vom deutschen Zusammenbruch 1918 und 1945 bis zur staatlichen Neuordnung Deutschland in der Gegenwart. 19v.

RB 940.53112/G373d
Documents on the events preceding the outbreak of the war: compiled and published by the German Foreign Office. 1940.

Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
Collection of documents which can be searched by keyword or time period. Includes the Nuremberg Trials, which are also available in the BSL:
Microfiche 2342
International Military Tribunal. Trial of the major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946. 42 vols.

Mfilm Per 16
Conditions and politics in occupied western Europe. 1940-1945. 122 reels.
Printed index.

Mfilm 18338-59
United States. OSS/ Dept of State Intelligence Research Reports. Germany and its occupied territories during World War II. [1977] 22 reels.
Printed index.

943.086/H67r.D
Hitler, Adolf Speeches and proclamations, 1932-1945. 1990-
[series not yet complete in the English translation]

BSL AV collections 943.086H67s
The speeches of Adolf Hitler / [videorecording] 1990
A selection of some of Hitler's most dramatic speeches with English subtitles.

943.086/D637
Documents of destruction: Germany and Jewry 1933-1945. 1971.

Newspapers and Current Affairs

REF/905/K2
Keesing's contemporary archives. 1931-

940.5305/R452
Review of the foreign press 1939-1945. 27v.

REF/05 N53y
New York times index . 1851-
(New York Times is held on microfilm at MF PER 3)

REF/05/T58a
Times index . 1790-
Times (London) is held on microfilm at MF PER 54)

For the post-war period there are a number of German newspapers:
Die Zeit (Hamburg) 1946-
Frankfürter Allgemeine Zeitung 1949-90
German Tribune 1962-
Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich) 1965-90

Resistance journals - France

Periodiques clandestins 1939-45
MICROFILM 14925-14944

Fascist journals - Great Britain

Blackshirt , 1933-1939 (impf) Published by the British Union of Fascists
MF PER 254

Fascist Quarterly 1935-36
MICROFILM 694

The Fascist : the news journal of the Imperial Fascist League. 1929:Mar - 1939:Sep
F PER 253

Fascist week 1933:Nov 10 - 1934:May 31
MF PER 255 Microfilm 14925-44

WWW RESOURCES

Holocaust

Cybrary of the Holocaust

German propaganda archive

H-Holocaust

History Place Holocaust timeline

Nizkor project

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.

Yad-Vashem: the Holocaust heroes and martyrs rememberance authority

Simon Wiesenthal Center

Revisionist

The Adelaide Institute, which links to other revisionist sites.