Dimensions: A Journal of Holocaust Studies

Dimensions: A Journal of Holocaust Studies is an online resource that features scholarly articles about the Holocaust and study guides for educators to implement these materials in the classroom. Also included are book reviews, interviews, bibliographies, and other resources.

Here are a few of the many topics covered in past issues of Dimensions:

Learn about the life of Professor Yehuda Bauer—one of the preeminent historians of the Holocaust. For more then four decades, Yehuda Bauer’s research, publications, and teaching have focused on the Holocaust. Although his interpretations have changed as new archives have become available, Bauer maintains that his fundamental belief in the importance of the Holocaust remains unchanged: “[T]he Holocaust must be considered the watershed event in modern history.” A portrait of the historian, highlights of his thoughts about the Holocaust, and classroom applications integrating Dr. Bauer’s materials and methodology are included in Yehuda Bauer, Historian of the Holocaust.

Testimonies are vital for research and teaching about the Holocaust. Testimonies may be written or recorded on audiotape or videotape. Ever since the close of World War II there have been testimonies of Holocaust survivors, witnesses and, in rarer cases, rescuers. Many of the early testimonies after the war were incorporated in trial proceedings and commission reports; other testimonies were preserved in archives. Read more about the importance of testimonies in Holocaust education and about using testimony in the classroom in Using Testimonies for Researching and Teaching about the Holocaust.

During World War II at various high level conferences in Moscow, Bermuda, and Yalta, leaders agreed that something should be done to demonstrate world censure of the Nazi aggression and mistreatment of civilians and POWs. The Allied leaders at Moscow and Yalta had concluded that there must be some form of punishment of the war criminals responsible for breaking the peace of Europe and atrocities against civilian populations and prisoners of war. Learn about the background and preparation for the Nuremberg Trials, formulation of international law, proceedings of the International Military Tribunal, and subsequent war crimes trials in the Dimensions issue dedicated to the Nuremberg Trials 60th Anniversary.