Web Site Evaluation Criteria
The existence of Holocaust denial web sites serves as an important reminder to think critically about information you find on the Web. Here are some points to consider:
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Authority - Who is responsible for the content on the site? What are their credentials?
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Reliability - What is the source of the information presented on the site? Is there documentation, so that the information presented can be verified? How did you find the site? Who links to the site, and where do links found on the site take you? Try typing the URL into a search engine - this can be a way to find out who links to the site, and what they're saying about it. Google's Advanced Search has an option to Find pages that link to the page. . . (NOTE: From the Google link, click on "Date, usage rights, numeric range, and more".)
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Purpose/Point of View - Why was the site created? What information is provided, and to what purpose? How is the information presented? Observe how language and graphics may be used to educate, inform, persuade, or sell.
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Currency - When was the site last updated? Are dates given for primary documents, or, if not, is an estimated time frame given, with an explanation as to why no precise date is available? Is the scholarship current?
Web Sites with Primary Sources
- A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust"Produced by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida". Links to documents, photographs, museums and more. Favorably reviewed by School Library Journal.
- Acts and Documents of the Holy See Relative to the Second World WarFull text, but not translated. Volume I has been translated into English (Pierre Blet, SJ, Records and Documents of the Holy See Relating to the Second World War, is in the Nazareth library collection, Call Number 940.531 Ble.)
- America and the Holocaust (site for PBS American Experience documentary)
- Analysis of the Personality of Adolph Hitler (1943, Dr. Henry Murray)Part of the Donovan Collection at Cornell University Law Library site.
- Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies (University of Minnesota) – Websites & Bibliography
- Donovan Nuremberg Trials Collection (Cornell University Law Library)
- German History in Documents and Images: Nazi Germany (1933-1945) (German Historical Institute)
- Holocaust Era Assets (National Archives)Records of artwork and other property looted by the Nazis.
- Jewish Survivors of the HolocaustOnline audio recordings of interviews from the British Library.
- Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals (Library of Congress)
- Learning About the Holocaust through Art
- Letters to Sala: A Young Woman's Life in Nazi Labor Camps (New York Public Library)
- Nazi and East German Propaganda Guide Page (Calvin College)
- Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939-1941 (Avalon Project - Yale University)
- Nuremberg Trials Collection (Avalon Project - Yale University)If you are looking for Nazi sources, scroll down to Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression (The Red Set) - especially the links for Volumes 3 and 4.
- Primary Sources List from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- remember.org: A Cybrary of the Holocaust
- The Last Expression: Art and Auschwitz (Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University)
- Trial of the Major War Criminals (Library of Congress)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Education)
- Voice Vision: Holocaust Survivor Oral Histories (University of Michigan-Dearborn)
- Voices of the Holocaust (British Library)
- Voices of World War IIThis site has interview transcripts with one "German Civilian" and one "Luftwafe-Hitler Jugend".
- War Letters in the Second World War (German site – page has a few letters translated into English)
- Witness to the Holocaust (Georgia Tech)
- Women and the Holocaust: A Cyberspace of Their Own
- Yad Veshem - The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
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