Battle for the Holocaust

America, Its Jews, and the Rise of Nazism by Gulie Ne'eman Arad (Indiana University Press, 2001)
Investigates what American Jews did to help the threatened Jewish communities of Europe as the Nazi grip tightened in the 1930s. Examines why they did not do more, exploring the conflict between their desire for acceptance by American society and their commitment to community solidarity.
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Black Silence: The Lety survivors speak by Paul Polansky (G Plus G, 1998)
In 1994 the Czech Government tried to convince American writer Paul Polansky that there were no living survivors of Lety, the Second World War Romany (Gypsy) death camp in southern Bohemia. But Polansky found more than 100 Lety survivors living in the Czech Republic and these are their stories.
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Denying the Holocaust: The growing assault on truth and memory by Deborah Lipstadt (Penguin, 1994)
Reprint of the 1993 book at the centre of the libel case brought by David Irving. An account of the evolution of Holocaust denial from being a set of cranky ideas on the lunatic fringe to their partial acceptance in respectable academic circles.
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The Destruction of the European Jews by Raul Hilberg (Holmes & Meier, 1985)
First published in 1961, this is the internationally acclaimed first major account of the Nazis' 'Final Solution'. A detailed book based on reliable historical sources.
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A report on the banality of evil by Hannah Arendt (Penguin, 1994)
In 1960, leading Nazi Adolf Eichmann was captured in Argentina and smuggled to Israel to be tried for crimes against humanity. Hannah Arendt covered the trial for the New Yorker magazine, coined the phrase 'the banality of evil' and argued controversially that Eichmann was an ordinary man drawn into an evil, totalitarian machine.
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God's Man: The story of Pastor Niemoeller by Clarissa S Davidson (Greenwood Press Reprint, 1959)
The dramatic story of Martin Niemoeller's evolution from brilliant U-boat commander and German nationalist in the First World War to a churchman who spent eight years in concentration camps as Hitler's personal prisoner.
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Gypsies Under the Swastika by Donald Kenrick (University of Hertfordshire Press, 1995)
Commissioned by the Centre for Gypsy Research in Paris, this account of the fate suffered by Europe's Gypsies during the Holocaust was published on the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the camps where a quarter of a million Gypsies died alongside the Jews.
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (Abacus, 1997)
Proof that the Holocaust remains a hotly debated subject, this controversial book by an American professor contests the idea that Germans opposed the persecution of the Jews and argues that ordinary Germans participated in the extermination.
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The Holocaust by Martin Gilbert (HarperCollins, 1987)
An extremely detailed account of the experience of the Jews in Europe during the Second World War, drawing on archive documents and the words of ordinary people who experienced the events.
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The Holocaust and Collective Memory: the American experience by Peter Novick (Bloomsbury, 2000)
An analysis of how and why the Holocaust has become such a focus of interest now. Novick argues that portraying the Holocaust as a uniquely Jewish catastrophe has the effect of downgrading other genocides and that seeing Jewish identity through the prism of victimhood is to collude with antisemitism.
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The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering by Norman Finkelstein (Verso Books, 2003)
Argues that public emphasis on the Holocaust and on reparations serves more to enhance the status of Israel and Jewish elites in the diaspora than to honour the memory of its victims.
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Holocaust Justice: The battle for restitution in America’s courts by Michael Bazyler (New York University Press, 2003)
The author describes both the human and legal dramas involved in the struggle for restitution, bringing the often-forgotten voices of Holocaust survivors to the forefront.
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Imperfect Justice: Looted assets, slave labor, and the unfinished business of World War II by Stuart Eizenstat (Public Affairs, 2004)
Eizenstat's account of how the Holocaust became a political and diplomatic battleground 50years after the end of the war, as the issues of dormant bank accounts, slave labour, confiscated property, looted art, and unpaid insurance policies convulsed Europe and America.
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Less Than Slaves: Jewish forced labor and the quest for compensation by Benjamin B Ferencz (Indiana University Press, 2002)
As a US war crimes investigator during World War II, Ferencz participated in the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. This narrative is concerned with the moral, legal, and practical implications of the outburst of claims for compensation from victims of persecution throughout the world.
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The Last Deposit: Swiss banks and Holocaust victims’ accounts by Itamar Letwin (Greenwood Press, 1999)
An account of the Holocaust deposits affair by the journalist who first broke the story in 1995. Relying on archival and contemporary sources, Levin describes the Jewish people's decades-long effort to return death camp victims' assets to their rightful heirs.
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Nazi Germany and the Jews, Vol 1 by Saul Friedländer (HarperCollins, 1998)
Historical work examining Hitler’s 'Final Solution' using newly discovered archive material that focuses on the years leading up to 1939, which the author describes as the 'years of segregation'.
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The Plunder of Jewish Property During the Holocaust: Confronting European history by Avi Beker (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001)
More than 50 years after the Holocaust, European and other countries are confronting newly emerging memories. This book reviews how the issue has been dealt with in different countries and how national myths must be re-examined.
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The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust by Martin Gilbert (Routledge, 1993)
A series of 316 maps with photographs, providing a graphic outline of the Nazi attempt to annihilate the Jews of Europe.
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The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust by Tom Segev (Owl Books, 2000)
Beginning with the Zionist response to the rise of the Nazis and the arrival of the first German refugees, this book documents the response of the Jewish community in Palestine to the destruction of the European Jews and that community's encounters with the survivors.
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The Texture of Memory by James E Young (Yale University Press, 1994)
In this study of Holocaust memorials, James E Young explores both the idea of the monument and its role in public memory, discussing how these memorials reflect the ever-evolving meanings of the Holocaust in Europe, Israel and America.
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Unmasterable Past by C S Maier (Harvard University Press, 1988)
Study of the debate in West Germany over the significance of the Holocaust and the Nazi regime.
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The Victim’s Fortune by John Authers and Richard Wolffe (HarperCollins, 2003)
Two reporters from the Financial Times go behind the scenes to detail both nobility and corruption in the fight for compensation of Holocaust survivors.
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German Reparations and the Jewish World: A history of the Claims Conference by Ronald W Zweig (Frank Cass, 2001)
The author examines the difficult debate within the Jewish world about whether it was possible to reach a material settlement with Germany so soon after Auschwitz. Concentrating on how the money was spent in rebuilding Jewish life, he also analyses how the reparations payments transformed the relations between Israel and the diaspora, and between different Jewish political and ideological groups.
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Anti-Defamation League
www.adl.org
Aims to fight antisemitism and bigotry in the US and abroad and serve as a public resource for government, media, law-enforcement agencies and the public.

European Roma Rights Center
www.errc.org
Includes documents on the plight of the Roma community in Kosovo and throughout Europe with up-to-date case reports and analysis. The site also offers information about grant programmes, with links to Roma, Gypsy and Traveller organisations.

The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
www.udhr.org/default.htm
Website for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights offering details of a national coalition in the US, working to promote action that advances respect for human rights throughout the world.

Ghetto Fighters' Museum
http://gfh.org.il/eng/
Founded (as the ‘Ghetto Fighters' House’) in Israel in 1949 by ghetto fighters and partisan, this focuses on anti-Nazi resistance and also includes the Center for Humanistic Education, which stresses the universal implications of the Holocaust and emphasises the sanctity of human life.

Holocaust Art Restitution Project
www.lostart.org
Website offers details of the history of works stolen, with a list of artwork, information on case histories and legal histories as well as sponsor information, grant requests and related resources.

The Holocaust History Project
www.holocaust-history.org
The Holocaust History Project is a regularly updated archive of documents, photographs, recordings and essays about the Holocaust, with evidence that directly refutes the arguments of Holocaust deniers.

The Holocaust on Trial
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/holocaust/
The website that accompanied the Channel 4 programme, The Holocaust on Trial, dramatising one of the most important libel trials in recent history. At the High Court in London, in January 2000, the controversial British historian David Irving sued American academic Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher Penguin Books.

Holocaust Memorial Day
www.hmd.org.uk
The official site for Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January, with background information on its aims and objectives, the National Ceremony, a community activities programme, educational material and useful addresses and links.

Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation (Swiss Banks)
www.swissbankclaims.com
The official information website for the Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation against Swiss Banks and other Swiss Entities with a proposed US$1.25 billion Settlement of a class action lawsuit against private Swiss Banks and other Swiss Entities for their alleged conduct related to the Second World War and the Holocaust.

International Organisation for Migration (IOM)
www.compensation-for-forced-labour.org
The IOM will process claims for payment relating to slave labour, forced labour, personal injury or death of a child lodged in a home for children of slave or forced labourers. Gives details of the German Forced Labour Compensation Programme with contacts worldwide.

Jewish Virtual Library
www.us-israel.org/jsource/
Hosted by the American-Israeli Co-operative Enterprise, this website offers a vast range of texts on every aspect of Ancient and Modern Jewish History.

Norman Finkelstein
www.normanfinkelstein.com
The official website where you can learn more about the man himself, his theses and related issues.

Pastor Martin Niemöller
http://serendipity.li/cda/niemoll.html
Webpage with several versions of the well-known dictum attributed to this German anti-Nazi activist, with links to articles on his life story.

Patrin Web Journal
www.geocities.com/~patrin
A learning resource and information centre dedicated to Romani (Gypsy) culture and history and to extending awareness of the continuous Roma struggle to achieve and maintain dignity and freedom.

RomNews Network
www.romnews.com
Comprehensive Roma website offering a history of the community, culture, campaigns, present-day events and the struggle for compensation for Roma Holocaust victims. The RNN Newsletter is also available by e-mail from the site.

Searchlight
www.searchlightmagazine.com
Set up by Searchlight, the London-based international anti-fascist magazine, the site contains news, back issues, an archive and extracts from editorials about many aspects of racism and fascism, contemporary and historical.

United Nations
www.un.org/english/
As well as its peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance, the UN aims to work to promote respect for human rights.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
www.ushmm.org
This Washington museum was set up to advance and disseminate knowledge about the Holocaust, to preserve the memory of those who suffered, and to encourage visitors to reflect upon moral questions raised by the tragedy. Includes a vast online archive.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Website celebrating the 50th anniversary in 1998, offering the full text of the declaration.

USC Shoah Foundation Institute
www.usc.edu/schools/college/vhi/
Spielberg-initiated project, recording more than 50,000 unedited testimonies of survivors, liberators, rescuers, and other eyewitnesses of the Holocaust. The website gives details of the Shoah Foundation’s multimedia archive.

The Wiener Library and the Project for the Study of Anti-Semitism
www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/wiener.html
A comprehensive collection of publications on Germany in the 20th century, with special emphasis on the Third Reich, Europe during and between the two world wars, Jewish communities in Europe, the Holocaust, antisemitism and fascism.

Yad Vashem
www.yadvashem.org.il
The Israeli Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem. Includes research, resources, a database of individuals who died, eyewitness accounts and information about commemoration events.

The Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre
Laxton
Newark
Nottinghamshire NG22 0PA
Tel: 01623 836627
Fax: 01623 836647
E-mail: office@bethshalom.com
Website: www.bethshalom.com
Directors: Dr Stephen Smith MBE and Dr James Smith
Beth Shalom (House of Peace), a dedicated Holocaust Memorial and Education Centre, provides a peaceful setting where visitors from all backgrounds and persuasions can explore and reflect upon the history and implications of the Holocaust. Conference, library, seminar and research facilities available for use by students, teachers and lay people of all ages and at all levels.

Holocaust Educational Trust (HET)
BCM Box 7892
London WC1N 3XX
Tel: 020 7222 6822
Fax: 020 7233 0161
E-mail: info@het.org.uk
Website: www.het.org.uk
HET raises public awareness of the Holocaust and related issues both nationally and internationally. It conducts and supports research on the Holocaust and provides teaching resources for secondary schools.

London Jewish Cultural Centre
c/o Kings College
Kidderpore Avenue,
London NW3 7SZ
Tel: 020 7431 0345
Fax: 020 7431 0361
E-mail: admin@ljcc.org.uk
Website: www.ljcc.org.uk
Registered charity that has taught Jewish history, culture and Modern Hebrew for over 20 years. Academic programme, outreach programme, cultural and social activities.

Simon Wiesenthal Center
Website: www.wiesenthal.org
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international Jewish human rights organisation which aims to preserve the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach and social action. The Center's headquarters are in Los Angeles and there are offices in New York, Toronto, Miami, Jerusalem, Paris and Buenos Aires.

Auschwitz
www.auschwitz.org.pl/html/eng/muzeum
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland was created by an act of the Polish parliament on 2 July 1947. It includes the sites of two extant parts of the Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camps.

Buchenwald
http://www.buchenwald.de/index_en.html
Part of the Memorial Foundation of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora, jointly managed by the German Federal Government and by the State of Thuringia, the Buchenwald Memorial is dedicated to preserving the memory of those interned in the Nazi concentration camp and the former Soviet camp.

Imperial War Museum
Lambeth Road
London SE1 6HZ
Tel: 020 7416 5320
Fax: 020 7416 5374
E-mail: mail@iwm.org.uk
Website: www.iwm.org.uk
Open daily: 10am - 6pm
The Imperial War Museum's Holocaust Exhibition uses historical material to tell the story of the Nazis' persecution of the Jews and other groups before and during the Second World War.

US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Washington DC
www.ushmm.org
Online exhibitions that focus on the Holocaust, plus contact details for the museum and affiliated organisations.

Yad-Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority
www.yad-vashem.org.il
Yad Vashem's principal missions are commemoration and documentation of the events of the Holocaust, collection, examination, and publication of testimonies to the Holocaust, the collection and memorialisation of the names of Holocaust victims, and research and education.

Produced to accompany The Final Insult, a Class Films Production, first screened on Channel 4 in April 2005 and Battle for the Holocaust, a Diverse production, first screened on Channel 4 in January 2001.

Writer/Editorial consultant: Julia Bard
Editor: David Highton
Deputy Editor: Mandy Richards
Design: Clifford Singer at Edition
Resources: Nicole Carman, Colin Hambrook and Alaistair Steele
Editorial assistant: Jill Crouch
Consultant: Sue Lukes

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