About the Collection
Since 1995 the Carman Family Charitable Foundation has made generous donations
to The Springfield Library in memory of victims of the Holocaust. This has enabled
the Library to add several hundred items to our substantial holdings of Holocaust
materials providing an extensive collection of circulating books and videos
for adults and children dealing with all aspects of the Holocaust.
Research Sources
In addition to our circulating materials, we have several reference works
and two major Holocaust research resources. The 22 volume Archives of the
Holocaust is an international collection of selected documents, including
many photographs and other primary source material. As well, we own the full
36 volume set of the official text in English of The Trial of the Major War
Criminals before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg 14 November
1945 - 1 October 1946.
Teacher Aids
The Library has several teachers' guides about Holocaust-related topics. These
include two produced by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum: Hidden History
of the Kovno Ghetto and The Nazi Olympics. The Anti-Defamation League's
Classroom Strategies for Teaching about the Holocaust provides ten lessons
for classroom use. We also have the resource book accompanying the Facing
History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behavior series. In addition
to print material, there are several good Internet sites for teachers:
- A
Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust : An overview of the
people and events of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music,
and literature. Produced by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology,
College of Education, University of South Florida.
- Holocaust
Teacher Resource Center: Educators, (kindergarten through
college) will find at this site materials which can be brought into the classroom
and studied. Whenever possible entire documents are included and may be downloaded
for direct use in the classroom. A mailing list provides an open forum for
Holocaust educators and students to share information, questions, and answers.
- Teaching
about the Holocaust:
From the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Includes an online workshop and a printable
teacher's guide, Teaching about the Holocaust: A Resource Book for Educators,
as well as a guide to the permanent exhibit for classes planning to visit
the museum, chronologies, bibliographies, videographies, brochures, and other
materials to assist educators in planning for Holocaust learning activities.
Other Resources in Western
Massachusetts
There are many other libraries in Western Massachusetts that have good collections
of Holocaust materials, including the Five
Colleges. Important local resources include:
- Hatikvah Holocaust Education
and Resource Center of Western Massachusetts: Located
in Springfield, the Hatikvah Center is a living memorial to the victims of
the Holocaust and serves as an educational and teaching facility for the entire
community. The Center serves as a repository for Holocaust materials and testimonies
-- oral, visual, and written. It is a resource for Holocaust curricula and
course materials for use in public, private and parochial schools. The Center
fosters cooperative efforts with local institutions and individuals in the
area of Holocaust studies.
- National Yiddish Book Center
in Amherst: The National Yiddish Book Center is a young, non-profit
organization dedicated to rescuing unwanted and discarded Yiddish books and
sharing the treasures they contain -- the culture and sensibility of the past
thousand years of Jewish history -- as a wellspring of contemporary Jewish
creativity. The Center's website offers information on: programs and exhibits
about Yiddish literature, Yiddish culture, and Yiddish language; hard-to-find
Yiddish books; an online edition of Pakn Treger, the English magazine
of the National Yiddish Book Center; and other resources for Yiddish.
Suggested
Reading Lists
The
Holocaust in Art, Music and Poetry
Teens
and the Holocaust
For
selected Internet resources, click here.
Springfield
Library
http://www.springfieldlibrary.org
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Springfield MA 01103
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