U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Site includes glossary, chronology, and overviews of ghettos, Nazi camps, children, perpetrators, forced labor, tattoos and numbering system of identifying prisoners, gassing operations, killing centers. Provides answers to "What is genocide?" and discusses Holocaust denial. www.ushmm.org

Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center

In April 2009 the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center held its grand opening in the Chicago suburb of Skokie. This world-class museum is dedicated to preserving the memories of those lost in the Holocaust and teaching current generations about the need to fight hatred, indifference, and genocide. Site includes online samples of exhibitions, resources for teachers, reflections from Holocaust survivors, and more. www.ilholocaustmuseum.org

Yad Vashem in Jerusalem

Website of Israel's official memorial to Holocaust victims includes chronology, bibliography of 200 books, documents on the destruction of Jews in Germany, Austria, Poland and Soviet Union, a look at four Jewish communities lost in Europe, and four selected articles from "The Holocaust and the Christian World." www.yadvashem.org

Jewish Virtual Library

The "Holocaust Wing" of this comprehensive online resource on all things Jewish includes history, chronology, glossary, bibliography, maps, and information on persecution, concentration camps, forced labor, Adolf Hitler, medical experiments, the world’s response to the Holocaust, Holocaust denial. Includes photographs and Q&A. www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/holo.html

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland

Site devoted solely to the notorious Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau includes actual photographs and blueprints, information on its establishment and expansion, its gas chambers and crematoria, the number and origins of its victims, liberation of the camp. http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/m/

The Last Expression: Art and Auschwitz

Site includes glossary and essays defining the role of music in Auschwitz, a theatrical performance in Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Holocaust art as spiritual resistance and evidence in post-war trials. Includes virtual tour of Auschwitz and interviews with surviving artists. www.lastexpression.northwestern.edu

Teacher's Guide to Holocaust

Site includes timeline, photographs, art, and information on concentration camps, victims, perpetrators, rescuers, resisters, liberators and survivors. Offers instructors assistance in teaching the Holocaust and Holocaust-related activities for students. http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu

Holocaust Resources for Teachers

Site includes timeline, glossary, and information on forced labor, camps and ghettos, Nazi medical experiments, children, Anne Frank, liberation of camps, Oscar Schindler, Nuremberg Trials. Answers "What did U.S. know?" and discusses church and world response. www.teacheroz.com/holocaust.htm