Resources at McMaster

Online, open access

Access to these resources is freely available to any user worldwide.

• German Concentration Camps and Prisons collection
• Jewish Underground Resistance Collection

McMaster graduate theses [Note that some recent McMaster graduate theses returned by these searches may be temporarily unavailable due to author-imposed embargoes. Embargoes are not normally longer than 12 months from the date of submission.]

• Topics related to the Holocaust
• Topics related to Antisemitism
• Topics related to Nazi Germany
• Topics related to World War II

Online, licensed

Access to these resources is limited to current McMaster students, faculty, and staff, or to on-site visitors in the McMaster libraries. For those not in the McMaster area, many other university libraries also provide these resources to their institution and for on-site use by members of their local community.

• Conditions and Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945
• Correspondence from German Concentration Camps and Prisons
• The Economy and War in the Third Reich, 1933-1944
• Jewish Underground Resistance: The David Diamant Collection
• Patriotes aux Armes! (Patriots to Arms!): The Underground Resistance in France, Belgium, Holland, and Italy, 1939-1945
• Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950
• Testaments to the Holocaust: Documents and Rare Printed Materials from the Wiener Library, London
• U.S. Relations with the Vatican and the Holocaust, 1940-1950
• USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive (on-campus access only)

Archives in the William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections

The William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections has extensive holdings of primary source materials relating to the Second World War, the Holocaust, and underground resistance movements in several European countries. Detailed information about the collections is available on the Division’s website or in its archival description database.

Book and Publication Collections in the University Library

From individual donors:

• Michel Brisebois collection
• Alain Goldschlager collection

By topic:

• Antisemitism
• The Holocaust
• Concentration Camps
• National Socialism & Nazi Germany
• The Second World War

External Resources

Sites with significant online content for education or research, or that hold significant collections which can be searched online.

• Canadian Jewish Heritage Network
• Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota
• John and Molly Pollock Holocaust Collection at Centennial College
• Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University
• Frank and Anita Ekstein Holocaust Resource Collection at the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre
• Library and Archives Canada Research Guide to Holocaust-related Holdings
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Yad Vashem