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Mihael Malyshev (St. Petersburg)
Today we will talk about the Holocaust in Eastern Europe.
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the websites I found the most convenient seems:
The site is organized in the form of an encyclopedia,
though not absolutely consistently. For example, we are interested in
Holocaust in Poland. In this case, we choose Poland from the list on the
site or we can enter the site in another way:
At the next step, the information is subdivided
into towns, concentration camps, ghettos, etc. For example, if we are
interested in Maidanek, we just choose it from the list (we can get to
the same page through
and receive a very short information summary including
years of operation and statistics about this death camp. The entire list
of concentration camps is given on a page, that we can enter through
which similarly links to the pages dedicated to each camp.
If we are interested in the Warsaw uprising, we can get to the pages dedicated
to it through the Poland page (see above) and also through
The encyclopedia is convenient to use, but information
provided is very brief -- just a historical reference.
Similarly organized is the website of the Visental
Center, which contains a part, dedicated specifically to Holocaust:
Here information is also given as a historical reference
about each town, ghetto, and camp. There is information not only about
the number of deaths, but also about the key individuals: the Holocaust
culprits and those who fought against it. This site has the same limitation
as the previous one: information is provided very briefly and schematically:
statistics, dates, and names (approximately 1-2 paragraphs about a camp
or a ghetto).
A very interesting site written by Mike Rosenzveig. The
site is dedicated to the Polish Jewish community, and contains parts about
history of the Polish Jews, history of genocide of Jews in Poland, history
of shtetls, history of Polish synagogues, history of postwar pogroms,
and also to genealogy of Polish Jews (with the possibility to "order"
a search for one's relatives) and restitution, i.e. return of Jewish property,
expropriated in 1939-1945. Each section contains a text equal in length
with an average scholarly paper (10-12 pages) and written on a decent
level. In my opinion, this is a very interesting site. I recommend it
to history teachers and all others, who are interested in history.
This site is also dedicated to the Polish Jews. Here,
you can get some information about the history of Jewish shtetls and death
camps in Poland. However, there is less information on it, and it is given
more superficially, although I would also recommend this site to teachers
and those interested in history.
This site is dedicated to the economic problems underlying
Holocaust in Hungary. The main attention of the site is paid to individual
property, mainly property with artistic value, which belonged to the Hungarian
Jews, of which the Jews were deprived by the Nazis and then by the Soviet
Army. This site is built as a text.
This is the site of the organization named after
Dimitar Peshev, a Bulgarian, whose name is mentioned with the same respect
as the name of Raul Wallenberg. On this site you can find the history
of rescue of Bulgarian Jews.
This page is dedicated to displaced persons, mainly of
Jewish origin.
And, as I promised earlier, I am sharing a site I found about Jewish
life in the Czech and Slovak Republics:
This
site contains both the history and the present. It is a well-organized
site.
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