Holocaust Encyclopedia
The Holocaust Encyclopedia is an online encyclopedia run by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). It has over 950 English articles on the Holocaust, many of which have been translated into 19 languages, including Farsi and Spanish.[1]
Content
[change | change source]The Holocaust Encyclopedia gets millions of viewers annually. The encyclopedia's articles are occasionally amended based on newer peer-reviewed historical studies. This makes it more reliable than the English Wikipedia with a history of disinformation.[2][3] The encyclopedia's articles are mostly written in simple English for high school students and readers who are non-native speakers.
The encyclopedia is funded by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future, and the German Federal Ministry of Finance.[4]
Topics
[change | change source]The encyclopedia is organized into the following topics:
- The Holocaust
- The Third Reich
- After the Holocaust
- Victims of the Nazi Era
- Rescue and Resistance
Articles
[change | change source]It includes a variety of articles:
- Photographs (1300)
- Articles (840)
- Identity cards of victims (600)
- Oral histories (550)
- Historical film footage (160)
- Artifacts (140)
- Documents (35)
- Maps (25)
- Music (11)
Related pages
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑ "About This Site – Holocaust Encyclopedia". Holocaust Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 21, 2024.
- ↑
- Grabowski, Jan; Klein, Shira (February 9, 2023). "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust". The Journal of Holocaust Research: 133–190. doi:10.1080/25785648.2023.2168939. ISSN 2578-5648. Retrieved October 14, 2024.
[...] a group of committed Wikipedia editors have been promoting a skewed version of history [...] Wikipedia's articles on the Holocaust in Poland [...] insinuate that most Jews supported Communism and conspired with Communists to betray Poles (Żydokomuna or Judeo–Bolshevism), blame Jews for their own persecution, and inflate Jewish collaboration with the Nazis [...]
- "The shocking truth about Wikipedia's Holocaust disinformation". The Forward. June 14, 2023. Retrieved October 15, 2024.
To our dismay, we found dozens of examples of Holocaust distortion [...] advanced a Polish nationalist narrative [...] People who read these pages learned about [...] Jews supporting the communists to betray Poles.
- "Exposing the Holocaust Lies on the Dark Side of Wikipedia". Chapman University News. November 17, 2023. Retrieved October 15, 2024.
- "Wikipedia and Judaism: How Holocaust Denial Became Embedded in the World's Go-To Source of (Mis)Information". World Religion News. October 14, 2024. Retrieved October 15, 2024.
- Grabowski, Jan; Klein, Shira (February 9, 2023). "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust". The Journal of Holocaust Research: 133–190. doi:10.1080/25785648.2023.2168939. ISSN 2578-5648. Retrieved October 14, 2024.
- ↑
- "ADL faces Wikipedia ban over reliability concerns on Israel, antisemitism". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. June 18, 2024. Retrieved October 21, 2024.
- "Wikipedia now labels the top Jewish civil rights group as an unreliable source". CNN. June 20, 2024. Retrieved October 21, 2024.
- ↑ "The Holocaust: A Learning Site for Students – Holocaust Encyclopedia". Holocaust Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 21, 2024.
