Destiny Library Catalog
Destiny is the OPAC ( Online Public Access Catalog ) that allows you to search for books, DVDs, audiobooks, ebooks, and even digital media that the district provides through all 8 of the Wilson libraries.
REMEMBER - Log in with your Wilson username and password. If you log in you will have access to many more resources and will be able to save your searches. To search for websites and encyclopedia use the ONE SEARCH tab. If you need help, just ask !
World Book
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Use this link to search over 100 Encyclopedia & Reference books.
Infotopia
A Google alternative safe search engine for students offering information and reference sites: art, social sciences,social issues,social problems, history, ...
PUBLIC Libraries - Visit online and in person!
Be sure to visit your local PUBLIC library for great books, DVDs, programs, and more !
SweetSearch.com
Great place to search for many topics. Results have been validated by educators and some sites provide an MLA citation.
Researching Children of the Holocaust
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United States Holocaust MuseumYou can search all the records stored at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. This site also provides information that will be helpful to your project.
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Museum of Tolerance - 50 Children of the HolocaustThis link to the Museum of Tolerance will provide a great deal of information on the child you selected. Be sure to check out the museum’s main page as it tells about not only the Holocaust, but all types of prejudice and intolerance.
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Yad VashemAs the Jewish people’s living memorial to the Holocaust, Yad Vashem safeguards the memory of the past and imparts its meaning for future generations. Yad Vashem, together with its partners, has collected and recorded here the names and biographical details of more than half of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices.
Daily Life in the Camps, Survivor Stories, Information on the Holocaust
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Holocaust Overview - People and PlacesDuring the years 1933-1945, Germany’s Nazi regime established a machinery of death that killed 6 million Jews as well as millions of other people the government deemed inferior. It’s difficult to contemplate the magnitude of the Holocaust, but we are called upon to do exactly that on Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah).
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Children During the HolocaustChildren were especially vulnerable in the era of the Holocaust. The Nazis advocated killing children of “unwanted” or “dangerous” groups .
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Life in the ShadowsHidden children of the Holocaust.
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Voices of the HolocaustListen to the voices of Holocaust survivors recorded by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The Museum produced about 25 to 30 percent of these interviews; the rest came from personal donations and acquisitions from over 70 organizations. Some were born digital and some were digitized from tape and film media. All of the oral histories that the Museum produced are now digital; it is in the process of converting the rest.
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Survivors StoriesSurvivors telling their story.
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Surviving the CampsStories of the camps and survival.
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Hiding to Stay AliveScroll through the site to hear how the survivors hid and lived on.
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USC Shoah FoundationThe USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, formerly Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. Shoah is the Hebrew word for the Holocaust.
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Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Holocaust Oral HistoryA unique and accessible site filled with Holocaust survivor stories.
Recommended Title
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Saving Children from the Holocaust
by ISBN: 9780766033238Publication Date: 2011-10-01 -
The Holocaust byISBN: 9780766032736Publication Date: 1998-10-01
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Youth Destroyed-The Nazi Camps
by ISBN: 9780766032736Publication Date: 2010-04-01 -
Trapped-Youth in the Nazi Ghettos
by ISBN: 0766032728Publication Date: 2010-04-01 -
Tell Them We Remember
by ISBN: 0316692646Publication Date: 1994-10-03
POWER Library - SO
Reminder - To access POWER Library from your home computer you will need to enter your PUBLIC library card number OR enter this ecard #: 24752000203602.
Survivor Stories
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Alicia Appleman-JurmanSurvived by hiding in the countryside.
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Inge AuerbacherSpent the years 1942-45 in the Terezín concentration camp in Czechoslovakia.
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Sonia BarSurvived by escaping to Russia and living in an unsettled area for five years.
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Valie BorskySpent four years in Theresienstadt.
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Ernest and Elisabeth CassuttoStory of survival is told by their son George.
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Boris ChartanSurvived with the help of a Polish couple.
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Krystyna ChigerHer family survived 14 months in a sewer.
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Geoffroy de ClercqTells his story of surviving Buchenwald.
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Lucille E.Gives a lengthy, detailed, and personal account of her life before the war in Germany, during the war, living in several concentration camps, and in her life in America, after liberation.
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