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Books
The Destruction of Romanian and Ukrainian Jews During
the Antonescu Era by Randolph L Braham (East European Monograph, 1998)
£38.50
History of why Romanian Jews were forced to flee their homes, plus an
analysis of the Struma disaster.
Commander of the Exodus by Yoram Kaniuk and Seymour Simckes (Translator)
(Moon Publications, 2000) £19.99
True story of the commander of the Exodus, a ship that ran the
British blockade between 1946 and 1948 to deliver 24,000 displaced European
Jews to Palestine.
Vanishing Diaspora: The Jews in Europe since 1945 by Bernard Wasserstein
(Harvard University, 1996) US Edition only, available through online book
shops.
Chronicle of the perils of post-war European Jewry. The author covers
the changing complexion over time of how the continent's Holocaust survivors
were treated and why.
Whitehall and the Jews 1933-1948 by Louise London (Cambridge
University Press, 2000) £32.50
Study of the British response to the plight of European Jews under Nazism,
immigration controls and limits to humanitarian aid.
The Exodus Affair: Holocaust survivors and the struggle for Palestine
by Aviva Halamish and Ora Cummings (Translator Vallentine Mitchell, 1998)
£18
History of the summer of 1947 when Jews escaping from Nazi Germany were
denied passage to pre-State Israel, then British Mandate Palestine.
Dawn of the Promised Land by Ben Wicks (Bloomsbury, 1997) £16.99
Oral histories of Jews who travelled from all over the world to make a
new life and nation in Israel.
Flight and Rescue by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (University
of Washington Press, 2001) £31.95
The famous 'Sugihara rescue' during the summer of 1940, when foreign envoys
of Japan and the Netherlands saved the lives of 2,100 Polish Jews who
crossed Soviet Russia, then sailed in cargo boats to Japan and China.
In Search of Refuge by Bat-Ami Zucker (Vallentine Mitchell, 2000)
£17.50
Highlights the control of Jewish refugee entry into the United States
between 1933 and 1941.
The Destruction of the European Jews by Raul Hilberg (Holmes
& Meier, 1985) £13.95
First published in 1961, this is the internationally acclaimed first major
account of the Nazi's Final Solution. It is a full and detailed book which
is based on reliable historical sources and estimates the number of Jews
killed as 5.1 million. Subsequent studies have amended this figure to
six million.
Websites
The Struma Project
www.struma.org/ceremony.html
Official site with coverage of the expedition that took place last year,
with lots of good images.
The Struma Tragedy in its 50th Anniversary
www.anatolia.com/lib/turkish_jews/struma/struma_tragedy.htm
Informative look at the tragedy and the circumstances that led up
to it.
The Holocaust on Trial
www.channel4.com/holocaust
Website to accompany the Channel 4 series that dramatised one of
the most important libel trials in recent history. Looks at the controversy
surrounding the British historian David Irving, who sued American academic
Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher for accusing him of being 'one of the
most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial’.
Jewish Virtual Library
www.us-israel.org/jsource/History/deftoc.html
Information on how the British tried to block Jewish immigration.
Jewish Immigration
http://jbuff.com/c121400.htm
A history of Jewish immigration and the flight from Europe up to
and including the Holocaust.
Avalon Project: The British White Paper of 1939
www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/brwh1939.htm
Discusses the precursors to the infamous White Paper and gives an
historical account of the Mandate for Palestine and Balfour Declaration.
The Destruction of Romanian and Ukrainian Jews During the Antonescu
Era
www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/reviewsh15.htm
Detailed review of Randolph Braham’s book
on the destruction of Romanian Jews, with reference to the Struma
tragedy and a chapter on Jewish immigration.
The Beginnings of the Aliya Bet Movement
http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/text/x01/xm0146.html
The Simon Wiesenthal Center provides a history of illegal Jewish
immigration into Israel plus links to the boats that were used, including
the historical background of the Struma.
Struma
http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/text/x31/xm3145.html
Recounts the terrible circumstances of the Romanian Jews aboard the
Struma and looks at Turkish attitudes and reactions to the sinking
of the ship.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
www.ushmm.org/
Research, educational materials, history, books, plus memorials.
Imperial War Museum
www.iwm.org.uk/lambeth/holoc.htm
The Holocaust Exhibition is housed permanently at the Imperial War
Museum, London.
The Last Expression: Art from Auschwitz
http://tle.northwestern.edu/
Presented by the Northwestern University and The Block Museum of Art,
this online exhibition contains an art archive, essays, interviews
with survivor artists and artist biographies.
Struma: A Romanian Tragedy
www.sephardichouse.org/struma.html
Contains a full list of the names and ages of the Romanian Jews who
died aboard the Struma.
Museums
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
www.buchenwald.de/memorial/index-e.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
Recorded information: 0900 1600140
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.
Simon Wiesenthal Center/Museum of Tolerence
www.wiesenthal.org
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international Jewish human rights
organisation that 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.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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.
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