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Umbra Search African American History

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Umbra Search brings together hundreds of thousands digitized materials from over 1,000 libraries and archives across the country to make African American history more broadly accessible. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

Umbra Search celebrates the vital efforts of the individuals and institutions that have helped to preserve and make accessible online hundreds of thousands of pieces of African American history and culture, and pays homage to the Umbra Society of the early 1960s, a renegade group of Black writers and poets who helped create the Black Arts Movement.

USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945

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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945 provides authoritative documentation of camps, ghettos, and other persecutory sites operated by the Nazi regime and its allies in a vast network that extended across the European continent and reached as far as the Soviet Union and North Africa. It is the most comprehensive resource on the Nazi camp universe, detailing the complexities of the camps and their impact on millions of inmates. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

The series comprises 7 volumes that will document approximately 6,000 sites in narrative format. Each volume provides foundational information on a particular subset of camps organized according to type, subordination, or distinct inmate population. Entries also describe the camps' evolution and their links to other sites to illuminate the persecutory system as a whole. Photographs, charts, and maps supplement the text.