Holocaust Days of Remembrance

Some of the examples and suggestions on this page may help you when searching for Holocaust-related information in library databases.

If you get too few sources...

Think of synonyms.

You tried: Holocaust stories

Try: Holocaust narratives, Holocaust oral histories, Holocaust testimonies

Use truncation (? or *) for more word endings.

You tried: survivors

Try: surviv? or surviv*

(This will look for survive, survived, survivor, survivors,and other words that begin with SURVIV.)

Don't use terms that are too specific.

You tried: Holocaust AND Hitler

Try: Holocaust AND Third Reich

Holocaust AND government mandates

You get too many sources:

Use AND to separate terms.

You tried: concentration camps Treblinka Auschwitz

Try: concentration camps AND Treblinka AND Auschwitz

Use quotation marks to search words together.

You tried: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Try: "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum"

This will look for the words United States Holocaust Memorial Museum all together in that order, as a phrase, instead of finding each word separately.

Don't use terms that are too broad.

You tried: concentration camps

Try: "concentration camps" AND "women"