Research Guides: Holocaust: Find Primary Sources

Primary Sources on The Holocaust Online and at Other Local Repositories

Yad Vashem Digital Collections
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum:
The Collections Division of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum consists of eight branches: Archives, Art and Artifacts, Film and Video, Music, Oral History, Photo Archives, Collections Management, and Conservation. The Archives Branch of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is one of the world's largest and most comprehensive repositories of Holocaust-related records. The collection consists of nearly 42 million pages of records.
Experiencing History: Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Learn about everyday Jewish life during the Holocaust by engaging with a variety of Jewish sources from the period. Discover and analyze a diary, a letter, a newspaper article, a policy paper by an international Jewish organization, see a photograph, or watch film footage. Produced by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Interviews

By clicking on the classic catalogue (under the Research link at the top of the library home page), typing Holocaust Survivors Interviews and changing the box to the right to subject, the list of records will be for items in the consortium libraries. An identical search can be done in Worldcat which is comprised of the catalogues of thousands of libraries.

Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
GW Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is now a partner site with Yale University, providing GW and the public with access to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. This collection requires researchers to create an account and request access to the online streaming content through Yale Library. The directions given at our web page outline the required steps. Once you have created an account, requested an item, and received an email approving your request you may visit the SCRC to view the content
Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive
"The Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive exists to maintain a collection of oral testimonies of those who survived the Holocaust and make these widely accessible for educational purposes. Through interlibrary loan, the Internet and community outreach, we make the oral testimonies and transcriptions available to researchers, students and the general public." A project of the Univesity of Michigan.

Contact Information

Special Collections Research Center
Melvin Gelman Library
2130 H St., NW, Suite 704
Washington, DC 20052
(202) 994-7549
Hours: Monday-Friday, 10 AM - 5 PM

For manuscripts and collections inquiries: speccoll@gwu.edu

For University Archives inquiries: archives@gwu.edu

ArchiveGrid

ArchiveGrid
ArchiveGrid contains the descriptions of nearly one million archival collections held in archives around the world.