Japanese War Crimes

30th Anniversary of Normalization of Sino-Japanese Ties

Alliance in Memory of Victims of the Nanjing Massacre

Asian Auschwitz of Unit 731, The

Asian Women's Fund (AWF)

Association for Victims of Japanese War Crimes

Bibliography: War Crimes/Truth and Reconciliation Commissions

Biology of Doom, The

Black museum of Japan’s war crimes | Times Online

Chinese Alliance for Commemoration of the Sino-Japanese War Victims, The

Chinese University of Hong Kong, The

Comfort Women

Comfort Women and Their Compensation Issues

Comfort Women: A History of Trauma

Comfort Women: A Web Reference

Concise Dictionary of Japanese History Revisionism, A

Definitions of Japanese war crimes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Forgotten People, A: The Sakhalin Koreans

History we shall never forget (China: 1931-1945)

Implementation of the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act

1937 Nanking Massacre

Iris Chang's Book The Rape of Nanking

Japanese Army's Atrocities - Nanjing Massacre

Japanese Army's Atrocities -- Nanjing Massacre: 300,000 Chinese People Killed, 20,000 Women Raped

Japanese Medical Atrocities in World War II: Unit 731 Was Not an Isolated Aberration

Japanese War Crime Trials » HistoryNet

Japanese War Crimes

Japanese War Crimes -- Nanjing Massacre

Japanese war crimes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Japanese War Crimes Introduction

Japanese War Crimes Trials

Japanese War Crimes Trials 1946-1948

Japanese War Crimes Unknown to the World

Japan's Germ Warfare and the Korean War

Japan's No-War Resolution

Japan's Past of Wars Against Its Neighbors Haunts Japan's Foreign Affairs

Korean Opium for Japan's Wars

Massacre of 3,000 Remembered in Northeastern City

Massacres and Atrocities of WWII in the Pacific Region

Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre (1937-1938)

Memories of War: The Second World War and Japanese Historical Memory in Comparative Perspective

MetroActive News & Issues: The Rape of Nanking

Militarism, Colonialism, and the Trafficking of Women: Comfort Women Forced into Sexual Labor for Japanese Soldiers

Military Sexual Slavery by Japan

Modern History Sourcebook: The Nanking Massacre - 1937

Museum of Nanjing Massacre, The

Nanjing Incident: Recent Research and Trends

Nanjing Massacre (1937-1938)

Nanjing Massacre and the Tokyo War Crimes Trial

Nanjing Massacre Museum

Nanjing Massacre Record

Nanking (2007)

Nanking 1937 -- the 60th Anniversary of the Nanking Massacre

Nanking Atrocities, The

Nanking Tragedy

Nanking War Crimes Tribunal

Nazi War Criminal Records Interagency Working Group (IWG)

New Evidence of Japanese War Crime

News Watch

Nuremberg Code Revisited, The: A Japanese Perspective

Other Holocaust: The: Nanjing Massacre, Units 731, 100 and 516

Preliminary Review of Studies of Japanese Biological Warfare and Unit 731 in the United States, A

Preliminary Review of Studies of Japanese Biological Warfare Unit 731 in the United States

Princeton University: Nanking 1937

Rape of Nanking: An Undeniable History in Photographs

Rape of Nanking: An Undeniable History in Photographs, The

Repentance for Japan's War-Time Past

Scarred by History - The Rape of Nanjing | BBC News

SlateWiper - Japan War Crimes

Specific Japanese War Crimes

The California Cure for Japanese War Crimes

Tokyo War Crimes Trials

Tokyo War Crimes Trials, The

Tokyo War Trial

Unrepentant Japan

USA and Japanese War Crimes - The Education Forum

Victims of Japanese Chemical Weapons Supported in Harbin

Viking Phoenix Web Page - Japan, Incorporated: Comfort Women Links

War Rape

Why Japanese doctors performed human experiments in China 1933-1945

Why the US Let Japanese War Criminals Go Free

Wikipedia: Nanjing Massacre

Interactive Maps of World War II

Pop Culture 1930-1945

Student Work

Effects of WWII on U.S. Foreign Policy

Courtney

General Resources

A People at War
Highlights the contributions of the thousands of Americans, both military and civilian, who served their country during World War II

BBC - History - World War Two
Online history of the war includes a timeline, the Holocaust, Battle of Britain and personalities involved. [Britain]

Causes of the Conflict

Dr. Seuss Went to War
400 Political Cartoons by Dr. Seuss 1941-1943; Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego

GI -- World War II Commemoration
Includes the story of the war, biographies and articles, photographs, air combat films, and interactive test

Historic Government Publications From World War II - A Digital Library
Database of government publications of WWII from Southern Methodist University

HyperWar
A Hypertext History of the Second World War

Maps of World War II
Map studies of the battles and campaigns of the Second World War providing a quick reference for professionals and students

National Gallery of Art - World War II Resources
World War II Resources at the National Gallery of Art

National WWII Memorial
The World War II Memorial honors the 16 million who served in the armed forces of the U.S., the more than 400,000 who died, and all who supported the war effort from home. Symbolic of the defining event of the 20th Century, the memorial is a monument to the spirit, sacrifice, and commitment of the American people. The Second World War is the only 20th Century event commemorated on the National Mall’s central axis.

They Drew Fire: Combat Artists of World War II
During World War II, more than 100 U.S. servicemen and civilians served as 'combat artists'. They depicted the war as they experienced it with their paintbrushes and pens. Their stories have never been told, and for fifty years their artwork, consisting of more than 12,000 pieces has been largely forgotten -- until now.

When Jews Were GIs: World War II and the Remaking of American Jewry
Urban America as the Jewish Home Front; The Battle to Enlist: Anti-Semitism in the Armed Forces; Jewish Empowerment in Response to the War; The Revelation of the Death Camps and Zionism; Victory Comes Home; The Legacy of the WWII Generation

World at War: James Doolittle
Profile information regarding key figures and leaders of World War II history

World War II Database: Your WW2 History Reference Destination

World War II Key Concepts - ppt

World War II Photos

World War II Special Section
Selected magazine articles relating to various aspects of WWII, including allied and axis powers.

World War Two - The History Beat
The Search Beat ... World War II Timeline highlights the major events in World War II along with links to the major web sites devoted to World War II

WWII Resources
Primary source regarding all aspects of the war

Top of Page

Japanese American Relocation and Internment

Projects

America First 
You are a member of a three person, top notch, political consulting team that Franklin D. Roosevelt has brought in to direct the campaign to convince the American people that the United States needs to go to war.  Roosevelt has asked you to collect information and create a propaganda piece for his approval.

American Reactions Toward Japanese-Americans After Pearl Harbor
This is a DBQ writing activity that would be appropriate for AP World History and AP US History.

The road to Auschwitz was built by hate,
but paved with indifference.

IAN KERSHAW

The image above was drawn by an Auschwitz prisoner, David Olère. Jewish prisoners were forced to load the corpses of their dead brethren into the ovens themselves, as well as to remove any possible valuables like gold teeth before burning. They were then also made to empty the ashes from the ovens.

Holocaust

[hol-uh-kawst, hoh-luh-] – noun

1.           an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire); "a nuclear holocaust" 

2.           the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945 

When capitalized, Holocaust refers specifically to the destruction of Jews and other Europeans by the Nazis and may also encompass the Nazi persecution of Jews that preceded the outbreak of the war.

"holocaust." WordNet® 3.0. Princeton University. 24 Feb. 2009. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/holocaust>.

About.com – 20th Century History - Holocaust

Anne Frank and the Holocaust
Resources for the study of Anne Frank and the Holocaust; Exhibition, sources, Teaching, Gallery, External Links

Association of Holocaust Organizations

Auschwitz Memorial Museum and the Case of the Gypsy Portraits, The
By Dora Apel, Vol. 2, No. 2, March 2002

Beth Shalom Holocaust Web Centre

Beyond the Holocaust: Survival or Extinction
Survivor Peter Zuckerman's online book

Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies
Examines the issue of the Holocaust, the nature of genocides, and the effect that organised hatred has on contemporary societies

Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS)
Links and resources from the University of Minnesota.

Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
The mission of the Claims Conference over its 50-year history has always been to secure what we consider a small measure of justice for Jewish victims of Nazi persecution

Cybrary of the Holocaust
Virtual Tour of Auschwitz, Images, Camps, Then and Now Witnesses, Audio/Video, Education, Poem

Doctors Trial, The
The Medical Case of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings - Online exhibit from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Forgotten Camps, The [Vincent Ch‚tel and Chuck Ferree]
History of several small nazi concentration camps, work camps, police camps, transit camps, etc...

Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies [Yale University]
Collection of over 4,000 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust in cooperation with 37 affiliated projects across North America, South America, Europe, and Israel

Genya Koren - A Memorial Site
Polska 1922 - Israel 1998; Dedicated to Genya Koren who escaped from Ghetto Levov

H-Holocaust

Holocaust (Shoah) Research Resources
Presents information on the Holocaust in many categories

Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center [American Red Cross]
National clearinghouse for persons seeking the fates of loved ones missing since the Holocaust and its aftermath

Holocaust Denial on Trial - David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt
Built around the defense's groundbreaking research, the riveting trial-room testimony, and the judge's historic opinion which found Irving to be a 'right-wing pro-Nazi polemicist' who 'deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence

Holocaust Education Resources
Personal and family papers of German-Jewish refugees from the Nazis in the 1930s; and of the art works and personal papers of Arnold Daghani, a survivor of the Holocaust

Holocaust Educational Foundation
Private, non-profit organization established in 1980 by survivors, their children, and their friends in order to preserve and promote awareness of the reality of the Holocaust

Holocaust Essays
Student essays created by a class studying the Holocaust

Holocaust Glossary

Holocaust History Project, The
Free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust-denial

Holocaust on Trial [PBS – NOVA]
Companion Web site to "Holocaust on Trial," originally broadcast on October 31, 2000. The film uses a celebrated recent trial as a springboard to examine and successfully challenge the notion of Holocaust denial.

Holocaust Pictures Exhibition
By FranÁois Schmitz

Holocaust Survivors
Holocaust Survivors, an excellent educational resource about the Nazi Holocaust of Jews in World War II, includes interviews, photographs and audio and more

Holocaust Survivors
Personal accounts by survivors of the Holocaust are powerful. They connect us, person to person, with an era in history that is difficult, yet necessary, to comprehend. Survivor testimony translates the countless unimaginable victims into a single person's feelings and thoughts.

Holocaust Translations [Kenneth Kronenberg]
Letters by Holocaust inmates translated into English

Holocaust: An Introductory Research Guide [Emory University]

Holocaust: The Untold Story
Although major American newspapers had been receiving reports of the mass extermination of Jews in Europe, the stories rarely reached the front pages, except in the Jewish press. Could a more aggressive press in the United States during World War II have saved lives?

holocaust-info [Mikkel Andersson]
Materials relating to the Aktion Reinhard camps with an emphasis on photographic material; also features a large collection of materials about the Nazi propaganda-film "The Eternal Jew"

Humor as a Defense Mechanism in the Holocaust [Chaya Ostrower, Tel-Aviv University]
Showcases the types of humor and laughter and the functions they fulfilled in the Holocaust

Index of Holocaust Bibliographies
Over 50 bibliographies from the Simon Wiesenthal Center page

Jewish Foundation for the Righteous
Charity website that recognizes, honors and supports non-Jewish persons who helped to protect Jews during the Holocaust

Jews Murdered by Country in Europe
Cited in Landau, The Nazi Holocaust, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1994. These data originally appeared in Poliakov and Wulf (eds), Das Dritte Reich und die Juden: Documente und Aufsatze (Arani Verlag, GmbH, Berlin, 1955). From Ben S. Austin's Holocaust\Shoah Page

Labor & the Holocaust: The Jewish Labor Committee and the Anti-Nazi Struggle
Portfolio of a hundred photographs and documents from the JLC Collection.

Last Expression: Art from Auschwitz
Roles, functions, meanings and making of art in the Nazi concentration camps of World War II, focusing on the notorious site of Auschwitz-Birkenau

Learning about the Holocaust through Art
Learning about the Holocaust through Art is a resource of art works produced by Internees during the Holocaust to be used for course or tutorial class work

Letters to Sala: A Young Woman's Life in Nazi Labor Camps
Introduction, Sala's Europe, 1939-1945, Prewar Jewish Life and Deportation, Nazi Slave Labor Camps, The Judenrat, Geppersdorf, Nazi Postal System, Ala Gertner, Sala's Labor Camps, Jewish Holidays, Harry Haubenstock, Schatzlar, Liberation, In America

Mittelbau Dora Concentration Camp
An account of the liberation of the camp by the 104th Infantry Division

Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal [American Association of Museums]
Searchable registry of objects in U.S. museum collections that changed hands in Continental Europe during the Nazi era (1933-1945)

Nizkor Project, The
A collage of projects focused on the Holocaust and its denial

Oscar Schindler – His List of Life

Oskar Schindler, rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust

Patrin: Roma (Gypsies) in the Holocaust (Porraimos)
Roma were the only other population besides the Jews who were targeted for extermination on racial grounds in the Final Solution.

Positive Holocaust Education [Jewish Professional Institute]
Second World War and Jewish Education in America: The Fall and Rise of Orthodox by Rabbi Yitschak Rudomin

Resources for Children of Holocaust Survivors [Judy Meschel]
The listing includes Studies/Presentations, Support Groups/Professional Help, Conferences/Organizations, and Books/Videos

Responses to the Holocaust
Introduction to the various discourses, disciplines, media and institutions that have produced significant critical and theoretical positions and discussions concerning the Nazi Genocide of the Jews of Europe, 1933-45. By Rob Leventhal

Schindler Survivors
Chronicles survivors Murray Pantirer, Abraham Zuckerman, Poldek Pfefferberg, and Anna Duklauer Perl

Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
Founded by Steven Spielberg in 1994...Dedicated to videotaping and archiving interviews of Holocaust survivors all over the world

Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust
An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and literature

Teaching the Holocaust Through Stamps [Chaya Ostrower and Tova Perlmutter]
Interdisciplinary and Computerized Program through the use of Stamps, Pictures, Text and Paintings by Holocaust Children

The Holocaust Album, The
A Collection of Historical and Contemporary Photographs By Ron Greene

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history

University of Minnesota - Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS)
Sections include: Virtual Museum of Holocaust and Genocide Art ; Histories, Narratives, Documents ; Educational Resources ; Links & Bibliography.

Voice Vision: Holocaust Survivor Oral Histories
Dr. Sid Bolkosky’s interviews with over 150 survivors of the Nazi Holocaust recorded on about 330 hours of audio tapes and 60 hours of video tapes

Voices of the Holocaust
Links to personal stories of the survivors, information cards about themes and concepts relating to the Holocaust, and other reference materials

Voices of the Holocaust
Personal, individual, true stories which describe life during the Holocaust, gathered from Jewish men and women who came to live in Britain.

Women and the Holocaust
Dedicated to all those women who were murdered while pregnant, holding little hands of children or carrying infants in their arms on the way to be gassed, in hiding; to the mothers who gave their children to be hidden, many never to find them again; to the righteous gentile mothers and the nuns in convents, who were hiding and protecting the children in their care, or as fighters in the resistance: in ghettos, forests, partisan units

Yad Vashem on the Internet
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, is the Jewish people’s memorial to the murdered Six Million and symbolizes the ongoing confrontation with the rupture engendered by the Holocaust. Containing the world’s largest repository of information on the Holocaust, Yad Vashem is a leader in Shoah education, commemoration, research and documentation.

Holocaust Projects Holocaust Lessons
This five-lesson course takes students through the Holocaust in five lessons. By learning about Anne Frank and creating a timeline, students learn about the facts and times of the Holocaust.

The Holocaust by Tim Guerin
The year 1933 brought the National Socialist German Workers Party to power in Germany. The fascist leader Adolf Hitler put his Nazi party in motion with a detailed plan to exterminate the Jewish race. Germany was a modern and civilized nation; nevertheless, the "final solution" to the Jewish question was genocide. You will examine the stages of Jewish persecution during World War Two and ultimately decide if any attempts could have been made to stop such a human atrocity.

Remembering the Holocaust with Hyperlinked Poetry
The horrific sight of bulldozers plowing thousands of limp, dead bodies into a ditch.  The overpowering stench of burning flesh radiating from the fiery furnaces.  The sooty flakes of incinerated children and grandparents falling from the sky like dirty gray snow, smothering the life below.  These are the images of the Holocaust that cannot be forgotten. Your job is to assure that your friends don't forget.

The Holocaust Project WebQuest by Mrs. Florimonte
Along with the reading and study of the Night each tenth grade student will be researching various aspects of the Holocaust. Between the years of 1933 and 1945 the Nazi Tyranny spread across Europe. During this time millions of innocent people were persecuted and murdered. The Jewish population were the primary victims. Six million Jews were persecuted during this time. By 1945 two out of every three Jews had been killed. Other groups that were targeted included: Gypsies, mentally or physically challenged individuals, Poles, Slavs, and Soviet prisoners of war. In addition, thousands of political and religious groups were targeted, such as communists, socialists, and Jehovah Witnesses. The concentration camp is most closely associated with the Holocaust and continues to remain a distinctive symbol of the Nazi regime

Holocaust, The: A Child's Perspective
A look at the Holocaust through the eyes of children. This WebQuest is ideal for experiential learning in small groups or as a whole class.

Let our fate be a warning to you
This is a Holocaust WebQuest that includes consensus building, persuasion and creating a final product. Students choose one of seven victims to research independently including Roma/Sinti, Handicapped/Disabled, Jehovah's Witness, Homosexual, Polish Jew, German Jew and Non-Jewish Pole. Students must use at least one primary source. Once the research is finished they teach each other their perspective and then as a group they create a Holocaust memorial or monument that serves as a warning for another genocide that includes all of their perspectives.

Remember the Holocaust
Don't ever forget the Holocaust. Using my WebQuest, students create their own Website; they focus on Anne Frank, Abba Kovner, & Elie Wiesel. Remember it. Talk About It. Teach It.

Time Machine, The
Students need to write an account of a thirty-day stay in a concentration camp in WWII. Links up to both history as well as English. Originally designed for ESL/EFL students.

Witness for the Prosecution
Students are asked to become lawyers and prove the Holocaust truly happened.

In Germany, they first came for the Communists
and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Communist

Then they came for the Jews
and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Jew

Then they came for the trade unionists
and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a trade unionist

Then they came for the Catholics
and I didn't speak up
because I was a Protestant

Then they came for me
and by that time
No one was left to speak up 

Pastor Martin Niemoller

Denazification

 Denazification | Shoah Resource Center