Holocaust Studies Resources

A vast, alphabetized collection of testimonies and other literature on the Holocaust.

Nearly 1,200 unique video interviews with Russian Jewish men and women who fought in the Soviet armed forces and partisan detachments during World War Two.

Over 1,000 audiovisual testimonies of Greek Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, collected in different periods, languages, and places.

A collection of early testimonies of European Jewish witnesses and survivors taken before the 1960s.

Nearly 600 former forced laborers from 26 countries tell their life stories in detailed audio and video interviews accompanied by transcripts, translations, photos, and short biographies.

A collection of Holocaust testimonies from victims and survivors.

70 Voices explores the history of the Holocaust through 70 sources – including diaries, letters, testimonies and poems – created by victims, survivors, perpetrators and other witnesses.

One of the largest and most diverse collections of Holocaust testimonies in the world, this database includes interviews with include Jews, Roma, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, political prisoners, and others who were targeted by the Nazis and their collaborators.

A collection of survivor stories, accompanied by photo and audio galleries.

Over 145 first-hand accounts of the Holocaust in both audio and video formats.

Over 350 contemporary testimonies and reports of the November 1938 Pogrom in Germany and Austria.

A collection of testimonies from Holocaust survivors, perpetrators, liberators, and rescuers.

Audio interviews conducted by the Center for Holocaust Awareness and Information (CHAI) of the Jewish Federation of Rochester.

Audio interviews with Holocaust survivors conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn from 1981 to the present.

Interviews with Holocaust survivors conducted by Dr. David P. Broder over a 3 month period in 1946 throughout France, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany.

A collection of memoirs, stories, and poetry by members of the Kindertransport Association, a nonprofit serving Holocaust survivors.

Video interviews and testimonies from Holocaust survivors in a number of languages.

Photos and records from the Theresienstadt ghetto and concentration camp in Moravia, then a German-occupied region of Czechoslovakia.

Interviews and photographs of 1,200 Jewish Holocaust survivors living in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and the Balkans.

Photography, art, and testimonies by Holocaust survivors.

Founded in 1979, the Fortunoff Video Archive houses over 4,400 testimonies from survivors in a variety of countries and languages.

When Henryk Ross (1910–1991) was confined to the Lodz Ghetto in Poland in 1940, he was put to work by the Nazi regime as a bureaucratic photographer for the Jewish Administration’s Statistics department. For nearly four years, Ross used his official position as cover, endangering his own life to covertly document the lives of others.

Photographs, films, and virtual tours of former ghettos, concentration camps, and other significant locations and individuals.

A unique, independent nonprofit motion picture archive, NCJF collects, preserves and exhibits films with artistic and educational value relevant to the Jewish experience.

An expansive collection of photo galleries from the World War II era.

A collection of over 18,000 Jewish documentary films covering historical periods from the time of the Ottoman Empire to the present day.

Photo collections of memorials, ghettos, and contemporary camp photographs.

Over 54,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide, including not only the Holocaust but also the Armenian, Cambodian, Guetemalan, and Rwandan genocides.

A near-comprehensive photo archive chronicling the Holocaust and daily life for European Jews in the mid twentieth century.

A tremendous number of photographs taken at the former Warsaw ghetto in Poland.