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Published Primary Sources
A lot of primary sources are published and you can use library catalogs like HoyaSearch to locate them.
Subject headings are like tags in YouTube, but they are consistent. There are subject headings that are used for primary sources:
- Sources
- Diaries
- Personal narratives
- Correspondence
- Early works
You can use these in HoyaSearch. Countries are also subject headings.
Online Primary Sources
- Testaments to the Holocaust: Documents and Rare Printed Materials from the Wiener Library, London This link opens in a new windowOnline collection of eyewitness accounts from the world's oldest Holocaust museum, founded by Alfred Wiener as the 'Jewish Central Information Office' in 1939. Contains searchable personal accounts of life in Nazi Germany, along with photographs, propaganda materials such as school text books, limited circulation publications and rare serials. Part of Archives Unbound.
- EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and TranslationsLinks to European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history. You can search or browse by country.
- Correspondence from German Concentration Camps and Prisons This link opens in a new windowLetters and other documents sent to (or written by) prisoners in Nazi concentration camps from 1936 to 1945. Part of Archives Unbound.
- Visual History Archive This link opens in a new windowUsers must establish a free account for access.
Over 53,000 video testimonies from survivors and witnesses to genocide from the USC Shoah Foundation. Principally interviews with Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, with additional testimonies of other 20th/21st century genocide attempts. Users must establish a free account for access.
- Nuremberg Trials Project at Harvard Law School LibraryThe Harvard Law School Library has approximately one million pages of documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) and to the twelve trials of other accused war criminals before the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT).
- Internet Modern History SourcebookMaterials in modern European, American, and Latin American history, as well as a significant amount of materal pertinent to world cultures and global studies. A number of other online source collections emphasize legal and political documents. Here efforts have been made to include contemporary narrative accounts, personal memoirs, songs, newspaper reports, as well as cultural, philosophical, religious and scientific documents. Although the history of social and cultural elite groups remains important to historians, the lives of non-elite women, people of color, lesbians and gays are also well represented here.
