I keep my homepage set to what some people think is a strange site. It’s a conservative news bureau called The Cybercast News Service, or CNSNews.com. That’s how I follow politics, since I’m extremely conservative. The site leans so far to the right that it might fall off some people’s monitors, but I enjoy it a great deal because I lean that far to the right already.

Every once in awhile something useful for historical research pops up on this site. Yesterday one of the featured articles was on Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority, headquartered in Jerusalem.

The site itself is a wealth of Holocaust information, including a survivors’ database and numerous articles relating to the Holocaust. They’ve recently added an entire section in Arabic as well, because of the growing sentiment among Arabs that the Jews orchestrated the entire Holocaust to get rid of the sick and infirm among them so they “wouldn’t be a burden to the new State of Israel”.

Earlier this week Yad Vashem launched a new section, an online photo archive. I haven’t looked through it yet since I’m not writing anything pertaining to the Holocaust but I’m sure this section will come in very handy for people who are writing about the Holocaust.

There’s also a newish documentary airing this month on the National Geographic Channel about the Auschwitz scrapbooks. You’d have to check your local listings to see if you have NatGeo and when it’s airing again.