The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC holds one of the largest collections of Holocaust documentation in the world. The museum opened in 1993 and now holds approximately 23,000 artefacts, 49 million pages of archival documents, 85,000 photographs, 1,000 hours of audio recording, and 9,000 oral history testimonies. Most of the collection is searchable online.
The museum’s Encyclopedia of the Holocaust is the most useful single online reference for Holocaust topics. It is available free, in many languages, and is written for the general reader. Each entry is accompanied by a list of further reading and links to related primary sources in the museum’s archive.
Other resources include the Holocaust Encyclopedia for younger readers, the museum’s film and photo archive, transcripts of survivor testimony, the Behrend International Tracing Service collection (which holds records on individual victims and survivors compiled by the Allied authorities after liberation), and an extensive set of teaching materials for school and university use.
Website: www.ushmm.org
Encyclopedia: encyclopedia.ushmm.org