Britannica’s Holocaust Project Resources
Participation in Britannica's Project Holocaust enables JUF to provide here more than 100 articles, essays, and lesson/classroom prompts, some of which also contain photographs and videos. Many of the articles have been written by Dr. Michael Berenbaum, the former director of the Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. These Britannica articles provide a convenient, reliable resource for Holocaust-related information.
Part 1: Hitler and the Origins of the Holocaust
- Adolf Hitler
- Anti-Semitism
- Klaus Barbie
- Beer Hall Putsch
- Eva Braun
- Adolf Eichmann
- Genocide
- Gestapo
- Hans Frank
- Hermann Göring
- Julius Streicher
- Reinhard Heydrich
- Rudolf Hess
- Heinrich Himmler
- Kristallnacht
- Mein Kampf
- Nazi Party
- Nürnberg Laws
- Franz von Papen
- Alfred Rosenberg
- SA
- SS
- Swastika
- Thyssen family
Part 2: The Holocaust
- The Holocaust
- Non-Jewish Victims of the Holocaust
- Anne Frank
- The Diary of Anne Frank (Film)
- Mordecai Anielewicz
- Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
- Auschwitz
- Baby Yar
- Belzec
- Bergen-Belsen
- Buchenwald
- Carl von Ossietzky
- Chelmno
- Concentration Camp
- Dachau
- Dinko Ljubomir Sakic
- Einsatzgruppen
- Extermination Camp
- Flossenbürg
- Gross-Rosen
- Gurs
- Gas chamber
- IG Farben
- Ilsa Koch
- Jean Cayrol
- John Demjanjuk
- Josef Kramer
- Josef Mengele
- Judenräte
- Life Is Beautiful (Film)
- Majdanek
- Martin Buber
- Mauthausen
- Menachem Begin
- Michel Thomas
- Mordecai Anielewicz
- Neuengamme-Ring
- Night and Fog Decree
- Nürnberg Trials
- Oskar Schindler
- Schindler’s List (Film)
- Plaszow
- Raoul Wallenberg
- Ravensbrück
- Rudolf Franz Hoess
- Sachsenhausen
- Siemens AG
- Sobibor
- Stutthof
- T4 Program
- Theresienstadt
- Treblinka
- Vught
- Wannsee Conference
- War Refugee Board
- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- Westerbork
- Yitzhak Zuckerman
Part 3: The Allied Response: Should the Allies Have Bombed the Camps?
Michael Berenbaum: “Why Wasn’t Auschwitz Bombed?”
Part 4: The Christian Response: The Actions of the Church
- Pius XII
- German Christians
- Confessing Church
- Edith Stein
- Martin Niemöller
- Reinhold Niebuhr
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
