| Holocaust Remembrance Day | |
| The observance of Holocaust
Remembrance Day was established in 1952 by the Knesset (Parliament) of
the State of Israel. It is a national memorial day and public holiday
in Israel, commemorating the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
It is held on the 27 Nisan (April/May). This year it is being held on
Sunday, May 1st, 2011. |
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| General Information on the Holocaust | |
| The Montreal Holocaust
Memorial Centre 5151, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine(Cummings House) Montréal (Québec) H3W 1M6 Canada Telephone : 514-345-2605 |
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United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum |
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| PBS: America and the
Holocaust www.pbs.org |
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| Teacher's Resources and Guides | |
| Holocaust Education
in Canada www.bnaibrith.ca |
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| A Teacher's Guide to
the Holocaust www.fcit.usf.edu |
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| Photos | |
| Shamash: The Jewish
Network www.shamash.org |
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| Articles online | |
| Côte Saint-Luc
Library Databases (Valid library card required) Click Here |
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| Victoria Remembrance
and Education Society Historical Newspaper Archives www.hopesite.ca |
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| JSTOR database through
the Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec (Free online subscription required) www.banq.qc.ca |
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| Events | |
| No events specified. | |
| Selections from the Library Collection | |
| Reference Books | |
| Dictionary of the Holocaust : Biography, Geography, and Terminology |  |
| The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust |  |
| The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust |  |
| Encyclopedia of the Holocaust |  |
| The Holocaust Encyclopedia |  |
| Fiction | |
| Adler, H.G. Panorama |
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| Birnie, Lisa. In Mania's Memory |
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| Diamant, Anita. Day After Night |
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| Keilson, Hans. The Death of the Adversary |
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| Littell, Jonathan. The Kindly Ones |
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| Semel, Nava. And the Rat Laughed |
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| Non-Fiction | |
| Bendavid-Val, Avrom. The Heavens are Empty: Discovering the Lost Town of Trochenbrod |
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| Blatman, Daniel. The Death Marches: the Final Phase of Nazi Genocide |
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| Christianson, Scott. The Last Gasp: the Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber |
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| Longerich, Peter. Holocaust: the Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews |
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| Schlink, Bernhard. Guilt About the Past |
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| Snyder, Timothy. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin |
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| Biographies and Memoirs | |
| Adorján, Johanna. An Exclusive Love |
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| Bettina, Elizabeth. It Happened in Italy: Untold Stories of How the People of Italy Defied the Horrors of the Holocaust |
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| Feist, Ursula. Me and My Passports |
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| Gur, David. Brothers for Resistance and Rescue: the Underground Zionist Youth Movement in Hungary During World War II |
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| Porat, Dan. The Boy: a Holocaust Story |
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| Roth, Marika. All the Pretty Shoes |
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| Movies | |
| God on Trial |  |
| The Diary of Anne Frank |  |
| The Boy in the Striped Pajamas |  |
| Emotional Arithmetic |  |
| The Counterfeiters |  |
| Fateless |  |
| Documentary Films | |
| Out Of Europe: Escaping the Holocaust |  |
| A Film Unfinished |  |
| No. 4 Street of Our Lady |  |
| Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust |  |
| Blessed is the Match: the Life and Death of Hannah Senesh |  |
| Holocaust: Dachau and Sachsenhausen |  |
| Holocaust in Music, Art and Literature | |
| KZ
Musik: Encyclopedia of Music Composed in Concentration Camps (1933-1945) 6 volumes |
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| Spiegelman, Art. Maus: a survivor's tale |
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| Costanza, Mary S. The Living Witness: Art in the Concentration Camps and Ghettos |
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| Ezrahi, Sidra DeKoven. By Words Alone: the Holocaust in Literature |
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| Plays of the Holocaust: an International Anthology |  |
