Library Guides: Holocaust In Film & Lit JWST-3440-01: Digital

Jews in America

Berman Jewish Policy Archive This link opens in a new window
BJPA offers a vast collection of policy-relevant research and analysis on Jewish life to the public, free of charge, with holdings spanning from 1900 until today.
Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection (1799 - 1971) This link opens in a new window
Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971.

Jewish Life in America, ca1654-1954
This resource explores the history of Jewish communities in America bringing to life the communal and social aspects of Jewish identity and culture, whilst tracing Jewish involvement in the political life of American society as a whole.
Women and Social Movements in the United States
This collection is an archive of the publications and documents of local, state, and federal Commissions on the Status of Women from 1963 to the present.
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At this time the collection includes the full text of more than 1400 reports and publications issued by commissions in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam. The publications include reports, pamphlets, posters, and ephemeral materials.

General Newspaper Collections

Historical Newspapers (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Includes full text access to over 26 U.S., UK, Irish, and Indian English-language newspapers, which may also be searched individually.
Titles include: The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger (1857 - 1922); The American Israelite‎ (1854 - 2000); The Atlanta Constitution (1868 - 1945); Atlanta Daily World‎ (1931 - 2003); The Baltimore Afro-American‎ (1893 - 1988); The Boston Globe‎ (1872 - 1986); Chicago Defender‎ (1909 - 1975); Chicago Tribune‎ (1849 - 1994); The Christian Science Monitor‎ (1908 - 2004); Cleveland Call & Post‎ (1934 – 1991); Detroit Free Press‎ (1831 - 1922); The Guardian & The Observer‎ (1791 – 2003); The Irish Times & The Weekly Irish Times‎ (1859 - 2016); The Jewish Advocate‎ (1905 - 1990); The Jewish Exponent‎ (1887 - 1990); Los Angeles Sentinel‎ (1934 - 2005); Los Angeles Times‎ (1881 - 1994); New York Amsterdam News‎ (1922 - 1993); The New York Times‎ (1851 - 2014); New York Tribune‎ (1841 - 1922); Norfolk Journal & Guide‎ (1916 - 2003); Philadelphia Tribune‎ (1912 - 2001); Pittsburgh Courier‎ (1911 - 2002); The Scotsman‎ (1817 - 1950); The Times of India‎ (1838 - 2008); The Wall Street Journal‎ (1889 - 2000) and The Washington Post‎ (1877 - 2001)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times This link opens in a new window
Access full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue in 1851. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue from 1851-2017.

British Government Sources

Middle East Online: Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970 (Archives Unbound) This link opens in a new window
Offers original source material from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers from the 1917 Balfour Declaration through to the Black September war of 1970-1971.
Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 This link opens in a new window
British government Confidential Print files, issued by the Foreign and Colonial Offices, cover the Middle East from Egypt to Afghanistan for the period from 1839-1969.
Documents on British Policy Overseas This link opens in a new window
Contains contemporary accounts and follow the detailed exchanges that shaped British foreign policy from the origins of the First World War and beyond.

WWII & the Holocaust

Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: The West's Response to Jewish Emigration
The Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees (IGCR) was organized in London in August 1938 as a result of the Evian Conference of July 1938, which had been called by President Roosevelt to consider the problem of racial, religious, and political refugees from central Europe.
Post-War Europe Digital Archive
Focuses on refugees, exile, and resettlement from 1945-1950.
Testament of the Holocaust Digital Archive
Includes personal accounts of life in Nazi Germany, photographs, propaganda materials, limited circulation publications and rare serials.
PLEASE NOTE: Some readers may find images within this collection disturbing.
U.S. Relations with the Vatican and the Holocaust, 1940-1950
Much has been published chronicling the role of Pope Pius XII regarding refugees, the Holocaust and relations with America during the war years and the immediate post-war period. This publication provides a wealth of unique correspondence, reports and analyses, memos of conversations, and personal comments.