Websites that include pictures and videos are a useful educational tool for studying the Holocaust. Pictures and videos are one of the simplest ways to explain information to people. These forms of media are interactive because they act as useful information for research, primary sources, etc. and engage the viewer on a level further than just reading articles.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (ushmm) and Yad Vashem
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem are two very well-known Holocaust sites. The purpose of the timeline from ushmm and the map of the main Nazi Camps and killing sites can be seen as interactive sites because they engage the viewer in more than just reading down the page. They both offer visual aids (pictures, maps, videos, etc) and they allow the viewer to look at pictures, read excerpts and other writings, and have maps and videos. Each page has multiple things to engage with and respond to intellectually. They have the opportunity for the person to make connections and to learn about the topics through different mediums.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Timeline)
The Timeline of Events portion of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum uses pictures, video, and audio to inform you further on the subject of your choosing. This timeline is useful in the way that it sets up the information in a clear way and it also gives you the option to explore “related articles” on the subject that you have chosen. For example, if you are researching Kristallnacht, you get a bit of text, which explains it a little, a video testimony,
a picture of the ruins of the Tempelgasse synagogue, as well as other links within the ushmm site that explain more about Kristallnacht. You can choose to learn more about every subject within the site or you can simply move on to the next subject in the timeline. The timeline itself is a usefully tool and format for looking into the Holocaust whether you are just beginning your research or are already somewhat educated on the subject. The videos, pictures, and audio, as well as the text and related articles give you many 
opportunities to find out more while remaining in the ushmm site. Mediums, such as the ones provided in this portion of the site, are useful in learning about and making an emotional connection to the Holocaust and World War II in general.
Yad Vashem’s page on the “Main Nazi Camps and Killing Sites” is an interactive, color-coded map that displays each Extermination Camp and Killing Site as well as displaying the status of each country (Allies, Neutral etc.)
When you click on one of the names on the map or in the bottom index, you get a document, which talks about and goes into detail, about that specific site. The way in which this “document” opens changes depending on which internet browser you open the site in. I noticed that when I opened the links in Internet Explorer it want me to open a Word document, but on Google Chrome it just opened in another internet tab.
Maps are always a helpful visual tool when looking at something as widespread as the Holocaust and Yad Vashem’s site does a good job of giving clear and concise information on each of the topics.
Look of Auschwitz
This website helps to fit well into the overall look of interactive websites. For our website we are looking at opinions, pictures/videos and virtual reality. This helps to fit well into the video aspect due to its reliance on pictures and videos. The overall purpose of this is to educate people on what happened within Auschwitz as well as not letting their voices be not heard. The tittle being voices of Auschwitz helps to lend its hand to education and remembrance.
This Website helps to utilize pictures of people as well as various videos of their testimony in order to preserve the voices of the Holocaust. This website through these medians is used to educate as well, through various research by CNN they accompany the voices with text and background research done.
CNN helps to give a very neutral opinion about the events that happened. with the goal of education and preservation through video this site remains relatively unbiased towards a side, yet seems to seek to display voices unheard.
There are a variety of peoples interviewed giving a good overall look at the Holocaust. Even more it helps to look at those effected by what is happening. The interactivity through the median helps to give choice to you. You can look at who you want to. Read about who seems to interest you.
This theme of remembrance dominates the feel of the website with different voices of Auschwitz that dominates the feel of the entire website. The technical layout gives pictures of the people and the environment they were in. Here we are given degrees of choice by either choosing who we want to look at, what pictures to see, what biographies and info to look into. Or even whos voice to listen too. Which ever form helps us we have the ability to look at.
This website will help to lend a hand a section of the interactive websites. There is a large portion of the sites that seeks to educate people. While it helps those of all level in one website. It can help those who know nothing or know much, because it is first hand accounts. Overall it helps to work well with others from my group of education. It also plays into the subpage of video’s and pictures’ that are a main part of interactive websites because of the chance to show education in a simple manner.
The Holocaust Explained
The pages of this website seek to educate the youth on the Holocaust. It breaks the site into 3 main parts for various ages, the overall age range being, 11-16. This implies to me there may be a feeling of lack of education among youth about the Holocaust that this site seeks to educate. Overall this site acts as key source to give information in various ways it feels necessary and appropriate for different ages to learn about the events that took place during the Holocaust. The main purpose seems to also seek to keep the memories alive of those who have fallen and those who are still alive. There are ways to see stories and see families in an effort to keep the memory alive as the site states.
The Holocaust explained made by a Jewish Community in London uses interactivity of educate the youth. With apparent age restrictions of 11-16 this website provides both pictures of victims as well as videos to educate the youth of what happened and but them the shoes of the victim. With the makers being those of the Jewish Community of London you would think their may be a high degree of Bias. yet there is actually very little. the site seeks to educate on the uprising and the during war period of the holocaust.
By establishing the age range the website goes into different kinds of details for each one. The youth can learn how Hitler came to power, but first they learn the roots of antisemetism.
It continues to help play to those who are just learning about the holocaust. Even more though it helps all kinds of learners. From those who are visual, to auditory, to those who just want to sit and read this way. The Jewish Society educates all levels on a topic that they feel all need to learn about. It helps the youth by giving choice to learners. Do you learn by reading look at the text explanations. Visual, can see the various pictures and use them to create change over time. Or look at the videos to learn because that’s how you learn best. This interactive site seeks to help all learners.
This website plays very well with not only my other website, with both explicitly being educational, but it also plays well in showing there is a great deal of educate sites on the Holocaust. This seeks to be its own section and backs the assumption that many sites that are interactive are mainly educational. They continue to play into the broader area of Video’s and pictures as a main median. This page seems to do this because of the way that they can be used to educate and display effectively.