Jewish American History Month: Holocaust & Genocide Resources, Data & Statistics

This section presents a wide spectrum of Jewish sources for the study of the Holocaust. Produced by Jews and Jewish organizations, the diaries, letters, testimonies, art, still and moving images, and other media included in this section highlight Jewish responses to persecution and genocide. These sources encourage students and instructors to pose questions not typically raised in documents left behind by the Holocaust’s perpetrators.

Studies of Americans' responses to Nazi Germany's murder of six million Jews, Roma, and other "enemies" have long been limited to a handful of questions. Why wasn't Auschwitz bombed? Why didn’t the US government rescue hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees? This section explores a wider range of themes, adding rich primary sources and historical context to the surrounding debates. Americans and the Holocaust provides a panoramic portrait of politics and society in the US from the early 1930s to the years immediately following World War II.