Christy Halstead's List: ITC 536 - Holocaust

Purpose: is to provide information on music druring WWII.
Bias: None.
Credibility: See http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/about-us/about-the-writers0/
Currency: Current. No dead links.
Who? ORT’s mission is to work for the advancement of Jewish and other people through training and education; to provide communities wherever they are, with the skills and knowledge necessary to cope with the complexities and uncertainties of their environment; to foster economic self-sufficiency, mobility and a sense of identity through use of state-of-the-art technology.
Readability: This should be readable by all high school students.
Advertising: None.

Purpose: To allow viewers all over the world to experience Auschwitz.
Bias: Biased somewhat to those who suffered and died in concentration camps.
Credibility: This is maintained by the Auschwitz-Birkeneau State Museum.
Currency: This site appears up to date and has no dead links.
Who? Auschwitz-Birkeneau State Museum
Readability: More a visual tour, but reading is acceptable for high school students.
Advertising: None.

Purpose: is to combat indifference, intolerance and injustice through international dialogue and youth-focused programs that promote acceptance, understanding and equality.
Bias: No clear bias other than a survivor of the holocaust.
Credibility: Elie Wiesel is a credible witness and Nobel Peace Prize Winner and author of Night, amongst others.
Currency: No dead links, page is up to date.
Who? Elie Wiesel
Readability: This is suitable for a high school student.
Advertising: None

Purpose: The Anne Frank House is a non-profit organisation. Its main aims are to administer the Anne Frank House museum and to spread the message of Anne Frank’s life and ideals. The Anne Frank House is an independent organisation with no affiliations to any political party or ideological movement.
Bias: None that I could see.
Credibility: Seems like a credible museum which has a board which oversees its activities.
Currency:Updates through 2010, no dead links.
Who? The Anne Frank Museum
Readability: This is suitable for high school students, and probably even Middle School students.
Advertising:None.

Purpose: To assist teachers and students to learn more about the Holocaust. A living memorial to the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum inspires citizens and leaders worldwide to confront hatred, promote human dignity, and prevent genocide. A public-private partnership, federal support guarantees the Museum’s permanence, and its far-reaching educational programs and global impact are made possible by donors nationwide.
Bias: This is an American museum, it is biased toward American belief systems and sentiment.
Credibility: This is wholly credible, I have been there myself.
Currency: Updated in 2011. No dead links.
Who? United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Readability: Suitable for Middle School to High School.
Advertising: Only ads were asking for donations to keep the museum supported and running.

Purpose: To give a better understanding of the children who died during the Holocaust.
Bias: American bias.
Credibility: Part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Currency: Original exhibit was in 2004, however all links appear to be intact.
Who? United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Readability: Suitable for High School students.
Advertising: None that I saw.

Purpose: To learn more about Arthur Szyk a great Jewish artist.
Bias: American & Jewish bias.
Credibility: PArt of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Currency: Exhibit from 2002, however all links appear to be intact.
Who? United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Readability: Suitable for high school students.
Advertising: None.

Purpose: To learn about the Nazi Olympics in Berlin in 1936.
Bias:American and Jewish Bias.
Credibility: Part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Currency:Updated in 2011.
Who? United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Readability: Suitable for high school or middle school students.
Advertising: None.

Purpose: To inform people about what is going on in the Congo today in relation to Genocide.
Bias:American bias.
Credibility: Associated with The Committee for Conscience and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Currency:Up to date, no dead links.
Who? Committee for Conscience
Readability: Suitable for both Middle school and high school.
Advertising: None.

Purpose: To show students why Jews (and others) did not flee when the Nazi's took power in Germany during WWII.
Bias: American and Jewish bias.
Credibility: Part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Currency: Up to date, no dead links.
Who? United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Readability: Suitable for both middle and high school
Advertising: None.

This site has links to other sites with various information on WWII.

This is a great timeline with hyperlinks!

Multimedia options for learning about the Holocaust.

Information one the Nuremburg Trials held after the Holocaust and WWII.

Great first hand accounts from survivors, liberators, rescuers etc. from the Holocaust. Students can read these first hand accounts to better understand the horror of what occurred.

Great resource for learning about a few of the concentration camps. Includes virtual maps, photos and other information.

Story of a child who survived the early 1940's in Budapest, Hungary. Read his story here.