Quick Links to Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh Resources
- Literature/audio: Survivor Solange Lebovitz reading her poetry
- Digital Book: Digital access to Flares of Memory, our collection of vignettes from local survivors
- Annotated story: Parallel Choices from CHUTZ-POW! Volume I
- Local Testimony Videos: Holocaust Testimony Project
- Local Testimony at USHMM: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn507963
- Testimony Video: Generations Speaker Lynne Ravas and Survivor Sam Gottesman (z”l) telling their stories at the Center
- Testimony Video: Generations Speaker Debbie Stueber telling her parents’ story
- Digital Exhibit: For You Were Strangers: Jewish Immigration to Pittsburgh, 1880-1990
- Digital Exhibit: Waldman International: A Look Back with 2021 Winners Virtual Exhibit
- Images: Winning student artwork from the 2019-2020 Waldman International Competition
- Profiles of Local Survivors: In Celebration of Life
- Booklists for Genocide Awareness Month
Resources From Across the Internet
Resources for all:
Digital Exhibits and Tours
- Auschwitz Virtual Tour
- Virtual Tour of the Secret Annex
- Yad Vashem Online Exhibits
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Online Exhibits
- Virtual tour of the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center of St. Louis
- “Stories of the Holocaust” from Google Arts and Culture
- All Holocaust collections/exhibits from Google Arts and Culture
- Bak Gallery Online
- Forgotten Victims: The Nazi Genocide of the Roma and the Sinti
- Virtual Tour of the Florida Holocaust Museum
Online courses
- The Holocaust: An Introduction from Yad Vashem
- History of Antisemitism from Yad Vashem
- E-Learning from Auschwitz Memorial
- YIVO Shine classes on pre-WWII Jewish life
- Learn about Jewish Partisans from the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation website
Ebooks and Archives
- Ebook resources from the Allegheny County Library Association (must have a library card through a participating library)
- EHRI (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure) Finding aid for Holocaust archival materials held in collections worldwide
- Digital Collections at Leo Baeck Institute
- Arolsen Archives – International Center on Nazi Persecution (This is a great resource for individuals looking for information on family members lost in the Holocaust)
- The Honorable Michael A. Musmanno Collection at Duquesne University, a Pittsburgh-based archive which include papers from Musmanno’s time as a judge in the Nuremburg Trials, witness in the case against Adolf Eichmann, and interviews with Hitler’s associates
Videos and Testimony
- *Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh YouTube page
- “The Last Survivors” PBS Frontline Documentary
- International Database of Oral History Testimonies (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
- Voices of the Holocaust (The Galvin Library)– Earliest known oral histories of the Holocaust, recorded in 1946. English translations of transcripts available.
- Recordings of events from Holocaust Living History Workshop from UC San Diego
- USC Shoah Foundation YouTube Channel
- Forced Labour 1939-1945: Memory and History (Freie Universität Berlin, Center for Digital Systems)
- Holocaust Matters: Curated extracts from the memoir of Dr Ernst Israel Bornstein, who survived seven Nazi labor and extermination camps.
- Oral History: Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust (The British Library)
Events from around the world:
- *Upcoming Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh events
- Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum Events
- Events from Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County
- Events from Museum of Jewish Heritage
Resources for educators:
- Support for Teachers during COVID-19 from Facing History and Ourselves
- Jewish Partisan Education Foundation Webinars
- Facing History and Ourselves Online Events
- Echoes and Reflections Webinars
- Educational Activities from IWitness
- Digital Teaching Tools from United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- POLIN Museum’s Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Campaign
- Digital Teaching Tools from Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
- Digital Resources from the Museum of Tolerance
- Music and the Holocaust
- The Nazi Concentration Camps: A teaching and learning resource
- Educational Resources from the POLIN Museum
Mental Health Resources:
- JFCS Resource page
- The JFCS Critical Needs Hotline, in partnership with Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh and United Way 211: 412-422-0400
- On-Demand Webinar: Helping Children Regulate Emotions During Challenging Times