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The organization maintains a growing library of books, periodicals, and videos on the historical facts and background of the Holocaust. The Lachman Documentation and Research Library includes a complete set of volumes on the Nuremberg trials, Holocaust encyclopedias, and anthologies of the European ghettos and resistance movements. An extensive selection of juvenile fiction, non-fiction, and reference titles makes the library an excellent resource for students in elementary, junior and senior high school. This comprehensive data bank for students, teachers and researchers currently contains more than 1,200 volumes, hundreds of posters, videos, and slides.

A large collection of videotaped testimony from Holocaust survivors and liberators, as well as an archive of artifacts from the period, is also available.

Many resource materials including bibliographies, videographies, chronologies, and sample lesson plans are distributed at no cost. In addition, one may order the five-day teachers’ guide/curriculum for secondary schools and other teaching aids. Click here for resource order form.

The Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois museum on Main Street, including the library, is now closed.

However, our catalouge is now available online.

Please contact the librarian to access materials found in the library collection.