Holocaust and Genocide Studies

This is a listing of websites related to the Holocaust.  They include sites run by organizations, museums and other research or education centers and differ widely in content and focus.

Visit Prevent Genocide International for information on the United Nations' Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide.  Article II contains the U.N.'s definition of genocide. 

"Article II: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

1. Killing members of the group;
2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."