Background Sources

Encyclopaedia Judaica
Articles on Jewish life, culture, history, philosophy, and religion covering from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists.
Oxford Bibliographies
Literary guide to significant sources on a variety of subjects. Serves as an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.

Basic Bibliography of the Holocaust | Holocaust Resource Center at Yad Vashem.
Comprehensive histories of the Holocaust.
Bearing Witness: a Resource Guide to Literature, Poetry, Art, Music, and Videos by Holocaust Victims and Survivors.
Cites primary sources including memoirs, diaries, fiction, poems, art, music, and videos.
Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature.
Profiles of the lives and works (novels, memoirs, diaries, poems, plays) of the most influential first-generation authors who survived, perished, or were closely connected to the Holocaust. Includes a comprehensive bibliography of primary works and a second bibliography of critical studies of Holocaust literature.
Historical Dictionary of Holocaust Cinema.
Includes diaries, personal accounts, novels, screenplays, cinema and the Holocaust, and internet sites.
Historical Dictionary of the Holocaust.
Traces the roots of anti-Semitism beginning in early Christian Europe. Contains studies on the Holocaust which reflects the recent rise of Neo-Nazism, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia throughout the West. Includes a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography.
"Holocaust Novelists." Dictionary of Literary Biography.
"This volume treats the Holocaust novel under the rubric of modern literature and makes no pretension to engage in historical knowledge of historiography of the Holocaust. It focuses on the contributions of contemporary authors to the development of the genre, showing their particular insights and achievements."
Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies.
The handbook is divided into five themes: enablers, protagonists, settings, representation, and after effects.
Perpetrating the Holocaust: Leaders, Enablers, and Collaborators.
Entries on nearly 150 individuals who enabled the Holocaust, directly or through collaboration. Includes 25 primary source documents, a detailed chronology, reference entries, images, excerpts from literary memoirs, and a bibliography.
Resisting the Holocaust: Upstanders, Partisans, and Survivors.
Profiles on 150 people who resisted the Nazis during the 1930s through 1945. Includes primary sources.
USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945.
Also available in print: Central REF D805 .A2 U55 2009
USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia.
Articles, images, documents, bibliographies, personal stories, historical film footage and other resources.
Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos During the Holocaust.
Call Number: Central REF DS135.E83 Y33 2009, ARMSTD-4TH-FL
Accompanying DVD contains wartime footage of ghettos filmed in real time during the Holocaust.
YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe.
Articles on the history and culture of Jews in Eastern Europe from the beginnings of their settlement in the region to the present.