Holocaust and genocide studies   Tags: genocide, holocaust  

The Holocaust and Genocide studies program at Monash University is led by the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation

Guides for related subject areas: History, Politics, Jewish Studies.

Contact librarians:

• Rosalind Olsen, subject librarian for Historical Studies at Matheson Library
• Janet McGarry, subject librarian for Arts at Caulfield Library

Learning skills advisers:

• Vikki Pollard, Matheson Library
• Irene O'Leary, Caulfield Library

Learning skills advisers assist students in improving their academic language and approaches to learning.

Encyclopedia of genocide and crimes against humanity

Encyclopedia of war crimes and genocide

Holocaust Encyclopedia US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Reference guide to Holocaust literature

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum encyclopedia of camps and ghettos, 1933-1945

Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos during the Holocaust

Encyclopedia of the Holocaust

Encyclopedia of Jewish Life before and during the Holocaust

Holocaust Literature: an encyclopedia of writers and their works

Holocaust encyclopedia Walter Laquer

• Holocaust and genocide studies
• Journal of genocide research
• History and memory
• Leo Baeck Institute year book
• Yad Vashem studies
• Patterns of prejudice

Search databases to find journal articles and book reviews

• Atla
• Academic Research Library
• Australian Public Affairs Full Text
  for resources relating to Australia
• CSA Illumina
• Expanded Academic ASAP
• Historical Abstracts
• JSTOR
  Provides only fulltext scholarly articles. The challenge can be to limit your search results to a manageable number. Limit your search to articles and the discipline of History. Do not limit your search to Abstract. At times it may be best to search on the name of an author who is an expert in the field. Identify these authors from a reading list or by looking at bibliographies in relevant books or journal articles. The last 3-5 years of a jourmal may not be available on JSTOR.
• Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies
• RAMBI: The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies

Primary source archives

• Conditions and Politics in Occupied Western Europe - 1940-1945
  British Government records.
• Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950
• Testaments to the Holocaust
  The resources of the world's oldest Holocaust Museum.
• USC Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive
  A collection of nearly 52,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses, in 32 languages and from 56 countries.
• World Trials

Newspapers

• Newsbank Newspapers - Australia and the World
• Factiva