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World War II
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Christmas at War: Experiences From the First and Second World Wars 
 This exhibit illustrates "how [some] people spent Christmas during the First and Second World Wars." Illustrated essays cover themes of family, food, gifts, entertainment, and goodwill. Include sound clips and transcripts of personal experiences of the wars. From the Imperial War Museum, London. http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/6/christmas/index.htm Topics: Christmas, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Dec 14, 2007 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 Hawaii War Records Depository
The website for this archive of "materials that document life in Hawaii during World War II" contains a timeline about Japanese American veterans (1941-1946) and digital collections of wartime photos from the Honolulu Advertiser, the Honolulu Star Bulletin, the U.S. Army Signal Corps, and the U.S. Navy. Includes links to related collections. From the University of Hawaii Libraries. http://libweb.hawaii.edu/digicoll/hwrd/HWRD_html/HWRD_welcome.htm Topics: Wars & Conflicts, World War II Last updated Sep 20, 2006 Jack Hamann, Rewriting History in "American Soil"
This companion to a National Public Radio (NPR) program features the text of the first chapter of "On American Soil." Using declassified evidence, Hamann revisits the hanging of an Italian prisoner of war near a U.S. Army base in Washington state and the subsequent court martial of African American soldiers charged with the assault. Includes links to background information, a timeline, and an interview with the author. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4659346 Topics: Activism, Black Resources, Crime, Military, Mysteries and More, U.S. History By Place, Wars & Conflicts, Washington State: Business, Washington State: History By Place, Washington State: Law, Washington State: People, Washington State: Regions Last updated May 26, 2005 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 Letters to Sala: A Young Woman's Life in Nazi Labor Camps
This exhibit features the letters of a Polish Jewish woman who survived five years in seven Nazi forced labor camps during World War II. "She risked her life to preserve the letters, hiding them during line-ups ... even burying them." Includes images of selected letters accompanied by historical photos and essays on topics such as the Nazi postal system and Jewish holidays. From the New York Public Library. http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/sala/ Topics: Correspondence, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Jun 15, 2006 Life After the Holocaust: Stories of Holocaust Survivors After the War
"Between 1945 and 1952 more than 80,000 Holocaust survivors immigrated to the United States. This Web site documents the experiences of six Holocaust survivors whose journeys brought them to the United States, and reveals the complexity of starting over." Features audio and transcripts of full oral history interviews, and an online exhibit with photos and audio about aspects such as arriving in New York and speaking out. From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/life_after_holocaust/ Topics: History, Judaism, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Aug 23, 2006 Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal
Dozens of museums have cooperated in creating this searchable registry for locating items that disappeared in Europe between 1932 and 1946. This growing database includes thousands of items from museum collections. Search by artist, artist's nationality, or country of origin of object; or use the advanced search to search by object type or keywords. From the American Association of Museums. http://www.nepip.org/ Topics: Crime, Museums, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Apr 17, 2004 The Office of Strategic Services: America's First Intelligence Agency
This history of the World War II Office of Strategic Services (OSS) discusses its beginnings with the 1941 appointment of civilian William J. Donovan as Coordinator of Information (COI), the creation of the OSS in 1942, and its expiration in 1945. Includes historic photos, maps, and images of spy gear. From the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/oss/index.htm Topics: Government, Government, Military, Wars & Conflicts Last updated May 26, 2007 Photographs From the Warsaw Ghetto
Exhibition of amateur and professional photographs taken by Germans and others, depicting life and events in the Warsaw Ghetto, which was liquidated by the Nazis in World War II after resistance by the Jewish residents. Divided into four sections: self-help organization, album of a German soldier, workshops in the Warsaw Ghetto, and the SS General Jurgen Stroop Collection. From Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority. http://www1.yadvashem.org.il/exhibitions/warsaw_ghetto/home_warsaw.html Topics: History, Judaism, Photograph Collections: History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Feb 2, 2005 Poland at War
"Photographs of Nazi occupied Poland taken between 1939-1945." Browse the photographs by categories including Warsaw at war, the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, the Warsaw Ghetto, and Jews of Poland. These photos were not taken by professionals. From a British man who is also seeking information about his Polish relatives. http://www.thornb2b.co.uk/Poland_at_War/ Topics: History By Place, Photograph Collections: History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Dec 20, 2004 The Rape of Europa
Companion to a documentary that "tells the epic story of the systematic theft, deliberate destruction and miraculous survival of Europe's art treasures during the Third Reich and the Second World War. ... [It] begins and ends with the story of artist Gustav Klimt's famed Gold Portrait, stolen from Viennese Jews in 1938 and now the most expensive painting ever sold." Includes photo galleries of materials relating to the thefts and rescue operations. http://therapeofeuropa.com/ Topics: Wars & Conflicts, World War II Last updated Aug 15, 2007 To Save A Life: Stories of Jewish Rescue
"True stories narrated by six rescuers accompanied by the narratives of thirteen people whom they rescued [from the World War II Holocaust]....Contemporary photographic portraits of the rescuers and people whom they helped were made by the author, while vintage photographs and other documents relating to the individual rescue stories were collected from the subjects' personal albums and historical archives." http://www.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/ Topics: History, Judaism, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Mar 21, 2002 Trigger Time
The 101st Airborne Division was a formidable army organization during World War II. Here its actions and historical significance (Normandy Invasion) are recorded and continually updated. Airborne history buffs and military personnel recount the events of this era in Unit Histories and War Stories with photographs of insignia, uniforms, equipment, souvenirs, and studies of its most famous emblem, "the screaming eagle patch" of Hollywood fame, in Eagle Patch Corner . http://www.101airborneww2.com/ Topics: Military, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Aug 17, 2002 Volunteering For Victory: The American Red Cross in World War II
An exhibition of American Red Cross activities during World War II. Features World War II posters, scrapbooks from overseas and the home front, memories of some of the volunteers, and related articles. Includes vintage knitting patterns for military clothing, instructions for making ditty bags, and the recipe for Red Cross donuts. http://www.redcross.org/museum/exhibits/ww2.asp Topics: Wars & Conflicts Last updated Jun 16, 2009 The Warsaw Ghetto Today
A virtual exhibition marking Britain's first Holocaust Memorial Day in 2001. A brief history includes sections on Jewish Warsaw prior to September 1939, war and occupation, the Warsaw Ghetto, deportation, the Jewish Fighting Organization, the uprising, and after the uprising. Also features an interactive map of Warsaw with current photographs of relevant sites, a bibliography, and links. From the Grange Museum of Community History. http://warsawghetto.epixtech.co.uk/ Topics: History, History By Place, Judaism, Wars & Conflicts Last updated May 19, 2004 Within These Walls... Victory Garden
Article about victory gardens, which were "vegetable gardens planted during the world wars to ensure an adequate food supply for civilians and troops." Features a bibliography, related links, and images. From the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. http://americanhistory.si.edu/house/yourvisit/victorygarden.asp Topics: Gardening, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Mar 8, 2005 Women and the Holocaust: A Holocaust Education Resource for Teachers
This collection of curriculum resources covers topics related to women and the Holocaust, such as women's survival in concentration camps, women artists in the Warsaw Ghetto, and resistance activities of women in camps. Resources are for middle and high school classrooms, covering history, social studies, literature, and art history subjects. Many of the topic areas include bibliographies. From the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. http://www.njch.org/holocaust/ Topics: History, Judaism, K-12 Education, Literature & Books, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Mar 9, 2005 Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During World War II
This exhibit focuses on eight women who chronicled American life during the war, both at home and overseas: Therese Bonney, Toni Frissell, Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, Clare Boothe Luce, Janet Flanner, Esther Bubley, Dorothea Lange, and May Craig. Features biographical sketches and samples of their work as well as a brief history of women in journalism. Includes a list of women correspondents that worked during World War II. From the Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/ Topics: Notable People, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Notable People: Women, Photograph Collections: History, Photography, The Grapes of Wrath, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Jan 11, 2006 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 World War II in the San Francisco Bay Area: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
This virtual travel itinerary covers dozens of sites related to World War II in the San Francisco Bay Area. Features an introductory film clip from the 1940s, interactive map, and illustrated essays on topics such as seacoast defense, mobilization, port of embarkation, shipbuilding, and women at war. Also includes a bibliography and links to related sites. From the National Park Service (NPS). http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/wwIIbayarea/ Topics: California: History by Place, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Jun 20, 2007 World War II Military Situation Maps, 1944-1945
This site "contains maps showing troop positions beginning on June 6, 1944 to July 26, 1945. Starting with the D-Day Invasion, the maps give daily details on the military campaigns in Western Europe. ... Some of the sheets are accompanied by a declassified 'G-3 Report' giving detailed information on troop positions." Also includes an interactive essay about the Battle of the Bulge. From the American Memory project at the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/maps/wwii/ Topics: Wars & Conflicts Last updated Feb 15, 2006 Yalta Casts Its Shadow 60 Years On
February 2005 article that notes that "the dark memories" of the Yalta Conference still linger in the "60 years since the three major allied leaders, Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, met to divide up the world in the old summer palace of the tsars in the Crimean resort of Yalta." Includes links to related articles. From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4241863.stm Topics: History, Military, Politics by Place, Presidents by Name, Travel, Wars & Conflicts Last updated May 18, 2005 |
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