Digital Studies of The Holocaust
This collaborative research project aims to introduce the process of data analysis to Holocaust studies to create new ways of seeing and remembering the Holocaust. One question drives this research. What could data science contribute to the study of the Holocaust in the digital age?
Case Studies
The Digital Studies Team continues to build out new reports and case studies—adding to this digital library of interactive reports.
Deportations
& Key Events
A circos plot and responsive timeline work to create a comprehensive view of the deportations of Holocaust victims.
Remembering Eastern European Holocaust Victims
To the Dark Side of the River
Detailing the Deportation of Romanian Roma to Transnistria this study includes deportations by Inspectorate with a focus on the timeline, location of origin and the reason for deportation.
The Mefkure
From Refugee Ship to Death Ship
Tracing the attempted escape route of people fleeing Romania by the Mefkure ship using open-source data available at Yad Vashem.
Polish Holocaust
Victims 1941
Working to connect threads of remembrance in data from Polish Holocaust Victims in 1941, this visualization spatially locates open-source data available at Yad Vashem.
Dacha Concentration Camp
Using the Captured German Records Collection
The Dachau
Concentration Camp
Throughout the course of the 13 years the Third Reich controlled the camp it expanded both in the number of prisoners as well as in the ways it was used to carry out the murderous vision of the Nazis.
Kristallnacht and Deportations to the Dachau Concentration Camp
On the night of November 9, 1938, an attack on Jewish property was carried out by Nazis.
Vienna Deportations
June 1938
Upon its annexation anti-Jewish measures were implemented and Jews were deported from Vienna.
Men Persecuted for Homosexual Activity
Over 300 men were held at Dachau under a violation of the Paragraph 175 law which prohibited homosexual activity. This case study recognizes their experiences and fates.
Escaped or Missing from Dachau
Escape attempts of prisoners from the Dachau Concentration Camp from 1933 to 1945.
Between Liberation and Murder: French Resistance
This case study outlines the arrest, detention, and fate of seven French resistance fighters imprisoned at the Dachau Concentration Camp.
Port Cities and the Holocaust
Foreign Nationals in Three Port Cities
Hamburg, Amsterdam, and Marseille initially served as refuge sites and later became a trap.
Diversity of Victims in Marseille
Marseille was home to many foreign Jews, who were deported to the East.
The Jewish Refugees in Shanghai
Estimates suggest that around 20,000 Jewish refugees found sanctuary in Shanghai—at least 1,476 perished.
Suicides of Jews in Hamburg
Suicides of German Jews during the Holocaust combine individual circumstances and choices and collective fates.
From Hamburg to Minsk
Following the path of Jews deported from Hamburg and taken to Minsk.
Women and the Holocaust
Women
of the Holocaust
The Netherlands
The Reich kept records to track Jewish women who either were born or resided in the Netherlands.
Women
of the Holocaust
France
This case study shows an example of key questions used to examine the visualizations.
Other Case Studies
Convoy 77
In France, deportations continued even after the D-Day invasion and the last mass transport left from Drancy on July 31, 1944.
Holocaust-Related Sites in Austria
This interactive map addresses the general view of National Socialism in Austria. For a long time, people believed in the victim theory, the theory that Austria was the first victim of Nazi Germany.
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