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Holocaust Resources

PBS's American Experience: "America and the Holocaust

The Holocaust History Project

Holocaust Memorial Museum

Maps of the Holocaust
Elie Wiesel
Holocaust Art
Holocaust Encyclopedia

Holocaust Survivors

Genocide

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Preventing Genocide

The heading “Who is at Risk?” presents information on areas of the world that have experienced genocide or are under threat of genocide.

Database Overviews and Articles (see librarian for username and password)

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Darfur Genocide

Rwanda Genocide

Cambodian Genocide

Holocaust Denial

 

How Revisionist History Works

http://history.howstuffworks.com/historians/revisionist-history4.htm

Brief overview of revisionist history movement and the negative connotations associated with it.

Other Terms

Negationism: Denial of historical crimes.  Holocaust denial is a form of negationism.

Holocaust Denial:  Belief that the Holocaust never took place or that it was greatly exaggerated.

Disinformation: The deliberate dissemination of misinformation (Using intentionally false information to confuse or mislead.)

Misinformation: Information that is unintentionally misleading, incorrect, or false.