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                                                          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 Encyclopaedias

CD - 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.


I On-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