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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., is both an educational institution and a memorial to the victims and survivors of this attempt to annihilate people deemed unfit by the Nazis. This online encyclopedia makes some of the material available in the museum accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.
The encyclopedia is translated into 12 languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Portuguese, Arabic, Greek, simplified Chinese, Farsi, and Urdu.
On the home page, popular articles are arranged by topics that covers all aspects of the Holocaust: the Third Reich, the Holocaust, Victims of the Nazi Era, Rescue and Resistance, and After the Holocaust.
Users can also browse all articles A–Z, and look through the museum’s collection of ID cards, which are valuable resources for those researching family histories.
The encyclopedia also includes educational resources for both students and teachers as well as items from the museum’s collection of photographs, personal testimonies, histories, artifacts, documents, maps, and music.
An important feature of this resource is the fact that it relates history to current events. There are articles about the genocides in Rwanda and Darfur as well as about the war in the Congo.
It also includes information about all of the groups persecuted by the Nazis: Rom (Gypsies), homosexuals, Poles, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the disabled, political opponents, among others.
This is an outstanding resource for anyone interested in history—and it is free.
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