Pathfinders
The Holocaust
Research suggestions and hyperlinks to websites for your research on this topic.
Subject headings, keywords
Holocaust, Jews, concentration camps, Nazis
Dewey Numbers
940.53 - for books on the Holocaust; 92 Biographies - true stories of survivors .
Reference
World Book Encyclopedias, Oxford Children's EncyclopaediasCD - Ask a librarian for a CD called A Promise to Remember -The Holocaust in the words and voices of its survivors. It comes with a booklet containing the transcription.
IOn-line Encyclopaedias/Databases
Britannica Online http://www.tki.org.nz/r/epic/
login on the left side of the page under the EPIC heading
login - darfieldhs, password: 22darfieldhs.
Scroll down to blue highlighted links - 'Britannica online school edition K-12'
or the 'Discovering Collection' (also biographies and science plus more)
Choose either Primary, Secondary or High School levels or 'search all levels'Useful websites – These are good starting points for your research.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust - facts, definitions, descriptions, pictures
http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/ - Holocaust history and facts from Holocaust Museum
http://library.thinkquest.org/12663/ - a site created by students for students on the Holocaust and about the numbers of Jews and non-Jews who perished.Darfield High School Library Team