The Holocaust Historiography Project

Holocaust Encyclopedia

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Welcome!

  • If this is the first time you are using this website, or if you would like to get a general orientation about this encyclopedia, and how it relates to other competing encyclopedias, either read our Introduction, or watch our 30-minutes introduction movie right here:
  • If you are looking for a general introduction into The Holocaust, read our entry about this over-arching topic, which will guide you through this historical labyrinth. It is also available as an audio and a video presentation.
  • If you are looking for information on a specific Holocaust-related topic, use our site’s search function to pull up entries that deal with this.
  • If you feel like browsing our entries, use the Letter Squares above to navigate to a list of all entries starting with a specific letter. Alternatively, click on the entry List of Pages, which pulls up ALL entries, sorted alphabetically. A more concise page just listing the headlines of each entry can be found in our List of Entries.
  • If you are curious what entries cover a certain category, use the list of categories. This category tree also gives you an idea on how we have organized our entries using this feature.
  • A list of all the sources quoted in this encyclopedia can be found in our Bibliography. All source references in our entries are linked to this page, so if you click on a reference, this page will open up in a separate window, positioned at the source referred to. If a source is accessible online, you will find a link in our bibliography, allowing you to pull up the source itself.
  • If you want to purchase our Encyclopedia, go to our store, where you can choose between a hardcover edition, a paperback edition, a text-only eBook version for downloading (PDF or ePub), and a downloadable eBook with text and audio files for all entries (ePub).
  • If you want to help us expand our Encyclopedia to cover additional topic, don’t hesitate to get in touch using our Contact Us form. If you are looking for inspirations as to what could possibly be done to help us, please read our short essay on our Support Us page, then consider whether any of it is within your means and abilities.
  • Our Change Log tracks the changes we have made since the first print edition of our Encyclopedia was released in December 2023.
  • Finally, if you want to support us financially in order to empower us, so we can continue and expand this educational outreach free of charge, please consider making a donation on our Support Us page.

Multi-Media Approach

Each of our entries has a sound file posted at the top, which you can use to listen to the entry, rather than read it. We also strive to post videos along with each entries, but this is an ambitious project that will take some time to unfold. Hence, for now, we only have a few select topics accompanied by video documentaries.