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The following online resources represent a cross section of information related to the Holocaust available on the World Wide Web. To ease searching, the Web sites are grouped under topical headings and are annotated with brief descriptions. Resources are in English, unless otherwise noted. The Museum does not officially endorse any particular site or its content. We appreciate your comments and feedback about this page; please e-mail the Library at library@ushmm.org.

Latest update: December 2008

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Children
Web sites focusing on the experiences of children during the Holocaust.

Children of the Holocaust
http://www.museumoftolerance.com/site/pp.asp?c=arLPK7PILqF&b=249685
Online exhibition created by the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance to illustrate the tragic fate of many children caught up in the Holocaust. Provides a short biography and photograph of each of over one hundred children, most of whom became victims of the Nazi regime.
Musée Mémorial des Enfants D'Izieu
http://www.izieu.alma.fr/
Web site for a memorial museum opened in 1994 in the house at Izieu, France in which seven adult caretakers sheltered forty-four children from the Nazis until the group was arrested in 1944 by the Lyon Gestapo, leaving only one survivor. Details their story and lists their names and ages. Reviews Klaus Barbie's arrest and trial. Includes a virtual tour of the house and its vicinity, background information on the Museum, descriptions of its educational activities, and a calendar of events.
No Child’s Play
http://www1.yadvashem.org.il/exhibitions/temporary_exhibitions/childsplay/1_home.html
Companion site to an exhibition that features toys and games used by Jewish children during the Holocaust. Provides background information on children in the Holocaust as well as historic photographs of children at play.