Links & Resources

Research & Teaching / Forschung & Lehre

• Chronicle of the Wall developed in collaboration of the Federal Centre for Political Education, Deutschlandradio and the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam
• Facing History and Ourselves
• Geolino
• Holocaust Center of Northern California
• The Irena Sendler Project. Irena Sendler, an unsung heroine of the Holocaust. A Polish Catholic social worker, she saved about 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto. Download a podcast about Irena, Life in a Jar.

• Medica Mondiale unterstützt traumatisierte Frauen und Mädchen in Kriegs- und Krisengebieten
• Oral History Association. The Oral History Association offers a rich and growing variety of resources for those interested in every facet of doing, promoting, researching, collecting, and preserving oral history.
• Sonoma Women's History has a great online listening station
• University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
• USC Shoah Foundation Institute The Institute's website now features a growing number of educational resources in several languages. Unique classroom resources and lessons are available

Jamye and Camalo (Photo by Jenny Hilfer)

The breakdown of democracy in Germany and the steps leading to the Holocaust form our core case study. We are committed to helping students around the world understand this history in order to promote tolerance and critical thinking. Facing History and Ourselves.org

Diversity

• Avaaz Avaaz.org is a new global web movement with a simple democratic mission: to close the gap between the world we have, and the world most people everywhere want.
• Brava! for Women in the Arts! is a professional arts organization committed to producing, presenting and cultivating live art celebrating the intersection of feminism and multiculturalism that ignites social change and empowers community.
• Dr. Mohamed Esa's work on cultural diversity
• FemBio Frauenbiographieforschung e.V.
• Geschlechtergerechte Sprache der Stadt Wien
• GLADT ist die einzige unabhängige Organisation türkeistämmiger Lesben, Schwuler, Bi- und Transsexueller und Transgender (LSBTT) außerhalb der Türkei.
• Islam in Germany
• JCC East Bay Our educational, cultural, social and recreational and fitness programs are designed to reflect the diverse needs of our community. All programs emphasize and celebrate Jewish values and culture, and all are open to the whole community.
• Kanak Attak

Dictionaries / Lexika

• German - English Dictionary (TU Chemnitz)
• German - English Dictionary(Leo)
• Neue deutsche Rechtschreibung
• Projekt “Digitales Wörterbuch”
• Visual Thesaurus

• Zoliswa Gila wurde in Umtata, der Hauptstadt der Transkei (Provinz Ostkap) geboren, unweit von Mandelas Geburtsort Qunu. Mit neun Jahren ist sie nach Kapstadt gekommen und lebt im Township Philippi, das mit ca. 150,000 EinwohnerInnen neben Khayelitsha zu den größeren in der Umgebung zählt. Photo: Sandra Pfeifer

  DemocracyNow! A daily TV/radio news program hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 750 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the U.S.
• Deutsche Welle (Podcasts) • (Slowly-Read News)
• Die Nachrichten der ARD
• Die Standard
• FazNet
• Frankfurter Rundschau
• KPFA
• Saar Sansaar: A Quarterly Magazine of Foreign Language Literatures in Hindi
• Taz
• Wagadu, Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender Studies
  
• Die Zeit

Film & TV / Film und Fernsehen

• ARD Mediathek. Audio/video clips and podcast subscriptions from all the ARD affiliates are available on demand from this new comprehensive website.
• DEFA Film Library is the only archive and study center outside Europe devoted to the study of a broad spectrum of filmmaking by East German filmmakers or related to East Germany from 1946 to the present.
• Lindenstrasse

Services

• Disaster Preparedness Resources, collected by Dr. Michael Bachmann and the Klönschnack group
• Glow Service Non-profit and volunteer-based initiative with over 7,500 entries•  Free to all users
• Germany-USA Career Center
• German Consulate General - San Francisco, CA

Book Orders / Buchbestellung

• International Book Import Service
• Orlanda Verlag