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JAMES D. BESSER
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
From the beginning, an idea
behind the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum was to use
the facility as the centerpiece of
a network of resources that
could help scholars and ordinary
people alike come to terms with
the enormity of the Nazis'
crimes.
Inevitably, that goal brought
the museum onto the World
Wide Web, the part of the In-
ternet that uses advanced
graphics and hypertext "links"
to bring together dizzying quan-
tities of information.
A new Web site offers all the
basics about the museum, in-
cluding hours of operation, in-
formation about tickets and
updates on current and upcom-
ing exhibitions.
You also can find transcripts
of recent lectures on Holocaust-
related subjects, although the
offerings here are some-
what meager. And the site of-
fers a glimpse of special exhibi-
tions—right now, a popular
exhibit on the 1936 Olympics in
Berlin.
But there's more: using the
kind of interactive technology
that has made the Web the
trendiest neighborhood on the
Internet, the site allows visitors
to tap the museum's prodigious
libraries.
The results are more like a
card catalogue than a complete
database; don't expect to find de-
tailed information about ances-
tors who may have perished.
But the sophisticated query sys-
tem does provide pointers to the
books and papers available at
the museum and at other Holo-
caust-related institutions
around the world.
As visitors are reminded, this
site is still under construction,
a caution that seems to hold
true for about half the sites on
the World Wide Web.
The museum home page is
particularly weak in links to
other Holocaust-related Web
sites. Hundreds exist, but so far,
the museum home page offers
links to only a few.
With the institution's vast
resources at their disposal,
however, the webmasters at
the Holocaust Museum site
are well on their way to provid-
ing a site that will help fulfill a
key goal of the museum's
founders — making detailed in-
formation on the Holocaust ac-
cessible to people around the
world.
Visit the Holocaust Museum
site by setting your Web browser
to: http://www.ushmm.org/. 0
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