HIST 675: Seminar in History - U.S. and the Holocaust (Dr. Nienkamp): America At War: What did the U.S. Know?

Courtesy of Franklin, the FDR Library's Digital Collections, Established by Executive Order in 1944, the War Refugee Board acted as an independent government unit with a mission to evacuate from Europe the victims of Nazi persecution and to give all possible aid to those whom it could not evacuate. This significant Holocaust-era research collection consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, reports, petitions, vouchers, press clippings, and related papers pertaining to policies, programs, and operations of the War Refugee Board. Also included are an extensive name and subject index to the records prepared by Foreign Funds Control, and a three-volume history of the Board, prepared by the Board's staff. The papers constitute all the extant records of the Board with exception of certain files that were turned over to the War Department for use in the United Nations war crimes prosecution.

Courtesy of Franklin, the FDR Library's Digital Collection, this digital collection consists of documents selected from across the holdings of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library archives. Selections reflect the Roosevelt administration's involvement in the events surrounding the Holocaust and refugee crisis, and include extensive documentation drawn from FDR's Papers as President, from the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, the Myron Taylor Papers, the Sumner Welles Papers, the Records of the War Refugee Board, and more. This correspondence was originally selected by archivists of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in 2001 and subsequently microfilmed in 2006 by University Publications of America for their microform publication, Holocaust Era Research Collections: Holocaust Refugees and the FDR White House.

A massive collection of searchable video testimonies of survivors, liberators, bystanders, and more. *registration required for full access (free)

A subcollection of the Veterans History Project, this collection includes video interviews, photographs, and personal correspondence

This searchable collection includes World War II veterans' memories of participating in the liberation of concentration camps in Germany and occupied Western Europe.

Provides full text access and abstracts from the 19th century to the present.

Provides full-text access to digitized Jewish newspapers in various countries, languages, and time periods. Includes issues of the Palestine Post published between 1932 and 1950. Accessible to researchers outside the Museum.

Provides free access to Jewish Telegraphic Agency news articles from 1923 to the present. Includes both a full-text search option as well as browse by date or topic. Accessible to researchers outside the Museum.

Students, faculty and staff now have access to the full content of the NYT.com and NYT mobile apps. Activate your free NYT Edupass and create an account by clicking on the above link. You must use your FHSU e-mail address to create an account. Once users have established an account, they may access the NY Times' archives through two methods:
The Article Archive (https://www.nytimes.com/search/) contains New York Times articles available either in full-text or partial articles dating back to 1851. This excludes display or classified advertising from the newspaper.
The TimesMachine (https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/browser) TimesMachine is a browser-based digital replica of every edition of The New York Times published between 1851 and 2002. TimesMachine works like an online map; you can choose an article, then click, drag and zoom the paper to focus on interesting areas.

"The Andover-Harvard Theological Library is the official archive for the records of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC). In a project jointly funded by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine in Paris, the library completed a massive digitization project of roughly 257 boxes of archival UUSC material dating from 1939 to 1967."

A searchable database designed for historians, educators and others looking for primary source materials. It includes 3 million digitized pages from the JDC text collections spanning 1914-1977.

"The New York Public Library's Dorot Jewish Division's American Jewish Committee Oral History Collection is the outcome of the "grandparent" of Jewish oral history projects. The Division holds the only complete compilation of transcripts and recordings from this 25-year project that began in the 1960s. The collection contains interviews with 2,250 individuals -- comprising approximately 100,000 pages of transcripts and 6,000 hours of audiotapes. The American Jewish Committee interviewed individuals from all walks of life, thereby compiling a collection of oral histories documenting the Jewish experience in America. Out of this comprehensive collection of interviews, 350 of the transcripts have now been scanned and digitized."

This project conserves, digitizes, and curates a portion of Cornell's IWO archives, especially those of its Jewish division, the JPFO. Digitized by Cornell University Library with the help of Cornell’s Jewish Studies Program, this collection addresses issues ranging from the transformations of Jewish identity in the middle of the twentieth century under the pressures of immigration, revolutionism, and World War II, to the history of splits and reconfigurations in United States radical politics during the first half of the twentieth century, the relation between class and ethnicity, and the participation of folk musicians and other artists in radical politics.