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Concentration Camps
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar 
 In 1943, Ansel Adams documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese Americans interned there. This site provides side-by-side digital scans of both Adams' 242 original negatives and his 209 photographic prints, collection highlights, Adams' book "Born Free and Equal," a selected bibliography, and a chronology of Adams' life. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/anseladams/ Topics: California: History, History, Photograph Collections: History, World War II Last updated Feb 17, 2007 Auschwitz Through the Lens of the SS: Photos of Nazi Leadership at the Camp
This presentation looks at photographs from an album donated to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007; the album "almost certainly belonged to and was created by [a German SS officer] ... stationed at Auschwitz from May 1944 until the evacuation of the [World War II Nazi concentration] camp in January 1945." Provides photos from the album, background about the officer, essays, archivist interview, and related material. From the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. http://www.ushmm.org/research/collections/highlights/auschwitz/ Topics: Judaism, World War II Last updated Dec 3, 2007 Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
"A chronological exploration of the largest mass murder site in history." This companion site to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) production provides an excellent overview of concentration camps in general and Auschwitz in particular. Includes the evolution of the camp, interactive maps, transcripts of interviews with scholars, testimony of victims and perpetrators, and a video installation. http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/ Topics: History, World War II Last updated Feb 16, 2005 Bergen-Belsen Memorial
Official website for this memorial located in Bergen-Belsen, Germany, on the site of former Nazi prisoner-of-war (POW) and concentration camps during World War II. Includes details about the exhibition building opened in October 2007, a timeline and maps of Bergen-Belsen, and related information about the history of the camp where diarist Anne Frank died. Available in English, German, and French. Some publications currently only available in German. http://www.bergenbelsen.de/en/ Topics: World War II Last updated Oct 29, 2007 Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites
This full-text, illustrated, online book tells the story of the forced evacuations of nearly 120,000 Japanese-American citizens following Pearl Harbor and each of the War Relocation Authority internment camps to which they were sent. Noteworthy features include a solid narrative history, extensive bibliographical references, and architectural drawings of barracks, mess halls, and other detention camp buildings. From the National Park Service's Links to the Past resources. http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/anthropology74/ Topics: History, Literature & Books, National Parks & Forests, United States History, World War II Last updated Jul 11, 2007 Dear Miss Breed: Letters from Camp
A retrospective of San Diego Public Library children's librarian Clara Breed, who became "a lifeline to the outside world" for Japanese American children relocated during World War II to internment camps. Breed "distributed stamped and addressed postcards to her young friends, asking them to write to her and describe their life in camp." The site documents life in the camps with letters, photographs, and audio and video files. From the Japanese American National Museum. http://www.janm.org/exhibitions/breed/title.htm Topics: Correspondence, History, Notable People, United States History, World War II Last updated Jul 29, 2009 Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project
With the goal of documenting oral histories of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II, the site features essays on the causes of the incarceration along with selected oral history videos. Includes lesson plans, a glossary, a timeline, a bilingual (English and Japanese) exhibition, oral history archives (free registration required), and related links. From Densho, an organization whose Japanese name means "to pass on to the next generation." http://www.densho.org Topics: History, Lesson Plans, Nonfiction by Genre, United States History, World War II Last updated Aug 30, 2004 Fred R. Crawford Witness to the Holocaust Project Files
The project's "aim was to collect eye witness accounts ... in order to refute claims that the Holocaust never occurred." The collection includes oral histories with liberators, survivors, and others; photographs, slides, and films donated by liberators; and television programs produced by the Project. The late Dr. Crawford founded the project and was a witness to the liberation of Dachau. The collection is housed in the Woodruff Library at Emory University. http://sage.library.emory.edu/collection-0608.html Topics: History, Judaism, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Jul 14, 2007 The Holocaust History Project
This site presents "a free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and [original] essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust-denial." Features a question-and-answer email service as well as an archive of questions and answers. http://www.holocaust-history.org/ Topics: History, Judaism, Photograph Collections: History, World War II Last updated Mar 25, 2007 Internment of Ukrainians in Canada 1914-1920
This site intends "to inform the general population about the Canadian Government's internment of Ukrainian Canadians in Concentration Camps in Canada during the period of 1914-1920." Includes photos, a map of internment operations in Canada, sample internment documents, requests to the Canadian government for restitution, contemporary reactions from Canadian political parties, related articles, and a bibliography. http://www.infoukes.com/history/internment/ Topics: History, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Nov 28, 2004 Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive
This searchable collection of over 200 photographs from the Los Angeles Examiner "documents the relocation of Japanese Americans in California during World War II [primarily from 1941-1946]." Most of the photos cover life in the camps at Manzanar, Santa Anita, Tanforan, and Tule Lake, and post-war repatriation to Japan. From the Digital Archive, University of Southern California (USC). http://digarc.usc.edu/search/controller/view/jarda-m4.html?view=1 Topics: California: History, History, Photograph Collections: History, United States History, World War II Last updated Aug 17, 2007 JARDA: Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives
"Documenting the experience of Japanese Americans in World War II internment camps," this searchable site provides access to tens of thousands of images and pages of electronic transcriptions. Includes photographs, manuscripts, paintings, drawings, letters, oral histories, and documents. Also features an overview essay about Japanese American relocation. From the California Digital Library. http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/jarda/ Topics: Correspondence, History, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, World War II Last updated Mar 26, 2007 Jasenovac: Holocaust Era in Croatia, 1941-1945
"This Web site chronicles crimes committed during the Holocaust in Croatia and highlights artifacts from the Jasenovac Memorial Area Collection," including "documents, photographs, maps, film, textiles, transcripts, testimony, and personal objects." Produced by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/jasenovac/ Topics: History, History By Place, Judaism, Photograph Collections: History, War and Peace: Resources on Iraq, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Jun 11, 2003 Last Expression: Art From Auschwitz
An exploration of the art created by the prisoners at the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. It includes a lengthy introduction about how the art was created, biographies of the artists, interviews with survivors, and lectures on the art to emerge from Poland during this time. Also has an extensive bibliography, virtual tours of Auschwitz,and a glossary. From the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Northwestern University. http://lastexpression.northwestern.edu/ Topics: Artists, History, Judaism, World War II Last updated Jul 26, 2006 Life Interrupted: The Japanese American Experience in WWII Arkansas
The University of Arkansas and the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles focus this site on the experiences of Japanese Americans in World War II Arkansas. In an appealing open book format, it provides history, educational links, materials and resources for teachers and the public, reading lists, a timeline, archival photos, recent press articles, downloadable posters, panoramic views, maps pinpointing Rohwer and Jerome camps, and driving directions from Little Rock. http://www.lifeinterrupted.org/ Topics: History, Photograph Collections: History, U.S. History By Place, United States History, World War II Last updated Feb 24, 2003 War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946
"This Web exhibit features images from approximately forty photographs taken for the War Relocation Authority and vividly depicts life in Arizona's two camps." From "Through Our Parents' Eyes: History & Culture of Southern Arizona," a project between the University of Arizona and the greater Tucson and Souther Arizona community. http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/wracamps/ Topics: History, Photograph Collections: History, U.S. History By Place, World War II Last updated Jul 22, 2004 War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945
A searchable and browsable collection of over 7,000 photographs and 300 Kodachrome slides taken by the War Relocation Authority (WRA) during World War II, documenting the internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans evacuated from California, Oregon, and Washington state. Also includes images of pre-evacuation and resettlement. Includes hundreds of photographs by Dorothea Lange. From the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. A part of the Online Archive of California (OAC). http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf596nb4h0 Topics: History, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, United States History, World War II Last updated Jul 3, 2006 The War Relocation Centers of World War II: When Fear Was Stronger than Justice
A lesson plan designed to study the U.S. government's confinement of people of Japanese ancestry to relocation centers during World War II. Resources include maps, readings, photographs and layouts of the Manzanar (California) and Rowher (Arkansas) camps, activities, and links to related Web sites. From the U.S. National Park Service program, Teaching with Historic Places. http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/89manzanar/89manzanar.htm Topics: California: History, History, Lesson Plans, National Parks & Forests, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, World War II Last updated Jun 20, 2007 Women of Ravensbrück: Portraits of Courage
This exhibit looks at the history and background of the Ravensbrück camp, a World War II concentration camp for women. It features stories from several inmates, images of the camp and of prisoner art, and essays on topics such as children, medical experiments, spiritual resistance, and concentration camp cookbooks. Based on an exhibit at the Florida Holocaust Museum, this is part of virtual museum of the University of Minnesota Center of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. http://chgs.umn.edu/museum/exhibitions/ravensbruck/ Topics: History, Judaism, Musical Genres, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Jul 27, 2007 |
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