Electronic Notes for Speakers
This website offers resources for Member States of the United Nations who have been urged by the United Nations General Assembly to "develop educational programs that will inculcate future gernations with the lessons of the Holocaust." The primary multi-media resources, source materials and briefing notes on this site will enable users to enhance their understanding about this watershed even in world history. Click on one of the photographs to view a segment of first-person testimony.
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Overview on the Holocaust
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Timeline
- Suggested Bibliography
- Documents on the Holocaust
Life Before the War
- Prewar European Communities - e-Newsletter
- Exhibition on Polish-Jewish Community
- Online Resource on Kristallnacht
Life in the Camps
- Interactive Map: Main Camps and Killing Sites
- Exhibition on the Auschwitz Album
- Women in Auschwitz
- Children in Auschwitz
- Learning and Remembering about Auschwitz
Message from the U.N. Secretary-General on the International Day of Commemoration In Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, January 27, 2009
Guidelines for Holocaust Commemoration:
Description of the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Program Language Versions:
Life in the Ghettos
- Life in the Ghettos
- Ghettos in Poland
- Lodz Ghetto
- Map of Ghettos in Nazi-Occupied Europe, 1939-1944
Hiding and Rescue
- The Convent Children
- Righteous among the Nations by Country
- Non-Jewish Rescuers of Jews during the Shoah
- Case Studies of Two Women: Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl