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Holocaust and Genocide--What is it?

Sheldon, Garrett Ward. "Holocaust and Philosophy." Encyclopedia of Political Thought.
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Horvitz, Leslie Alan, and Christopher Catherwood. "Genocide." Encyclopedia of War Crimes and Genocide.

Axelrod, Alan. "Holocaust." Encyclopedia of World War II, Volume I.
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Horvitz, Leslie Alan, and Christopher Catherwood. "Nuremberg Trials." Encyclopedia of War Crimes and Genocide.
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Life during the Holocaust:

"Nazi State, 1936-1945." World War II. (Turn the pages using the links at the bottom.)
"The World of the Camps: Labor and Concentration Camps." Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority.
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"Concentration Camps: 1933-1939." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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Who is Eli Wiesel?
"Elie Wiesel." People of the Holocaust.
Cronin, Gloria, and Alan Berger. "Wiesel, Eli." Encyclopedia of Jewish-American Literature. Second Edition
Videos:
Children of the Holocaust
About one-third of adult European Jews survived the Nazis’ Final Solution, but only seven percent of children. This program tells the stories of four people who, as children, survived the Holocaust: Yehuda Bacon, one of 28 survivors out of a group of 15,000 Czech children sent to Theresienstadt and now an artist living in Israel, who describes the incredible twists of fate that kept him alive; Sophie Reichman, hidden by a non-Jewish family, who describes how she was unable to say good-bye to her mother; Janek Webber, one of only 200 Polish children to survive, who was smuggled out of the Cracow ghetto in his father’s suitcase; Shmuel Sheler, whose mother bribed a peasant woman to take the 12-year-old boy back to Budapest after his family was driven out of the city and who survived by scavenging in the streets. Had Anne Frank survived, what might her story have been? (51 minutes)
Elie Wiesel: Dead Stars, Dead Eyes
In this powerful program narrated by William Hurt, Elie Wiesel shares his innermost beliefs as he talks about his commitment to Holocaust awareness, his ongoing fight against anti-Semitism, and his tireless efforts to help the weak. From his birthplace in the town of Sighet and back again via Auschwitz, postwar Paris, Jerusalem, and New York City, the iconic humanitarian talks about the things that matter most to him: family, Judaism, human rights, and, most of all, the duty to remember. Footage of Wiesel at Boston University captures the Nobel Laureate in a teaching moment, while passages from his acclaimed memoir Night, read by Hurt, articulate the surreal horror of living in a death camp. (58 minutes)