English ATAR : Year 12 - Holocaust: Home

A time line with links to the major events affecting the Jewish population of Europe from 1933 to the end of the war.

The Nazi Holocaust - 1939-1945: 6,000,000 deaths.

'Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State' has been devised by PBS to accompany a TV series. The website describes the process that led to the largest mass murder in the history of humanity. It includes a timeline, maps, description of the camp in wartime during the Holocaust and understanding Auschwitz today

Very detailed site of the Holocaust that includes persecution of Jews by the Nazis, concentration camps and stories of individuals and survivors.

Voices of the Holocaust is a web resource of oral history testimonies gathered from Jewish men and women who came to live in Britain following persecution by the Nazis during the Second World War. The testimonies are personal, individual and true stories, which describe life during the Holocaust.

Mark Baker is one of a self-selecting group of writers, labelled in media and critical commentary as 'second-generation' Holocaust survivors. Such writers focus their skills upon stories of the Holocaust or its aftermath but consider themselves to be real writers, not merely family historians or witnesses to their parents' plight. The Holocaust is a significant driver of the second generation: testimony and memorialisation require publication, and it is through writing that members of the second generation attempt to make sense of the legacy of 'an event not personally experienced' (Berger 1997, p. 1). By publishing The Fiftieth Gate, Baker is following the tradition of second-generation writers, Australian and international, who strive to make sense of the meaning of the Holocaust in their own lives while fulfilling the eyewitness dictum to 'bear witness' (Levi 1987, 1989; Wiesel 1995).

Summary:
The publishing world has been astonished by the success of The Fiftieth Gate, in which Mark Raphael Baker, right, lays bare his parents' Holocaust secrets. RICHARD GUILLIATT looks at the book's remarkable commercial appeal.

REVIEW: THIS is a book about memory. Memory is a crucial element in Jewish tradition. Memory of persecution and survival is handed down from generation to generation. For Holocaust survivors, this is not an easy task: many could not speak about their experiences; they buried their pain - from themselves, but mostly to protect their children.

Briefly discusses: The Plot; Issues and themes; Structure and language: Related resources - Contextual study and films