Testaments to the Holocaust. Help page

Once you have entered search parameters and executed a search of the Testaments to the Holocaust database, works that meet your search criteria are returned in a results list.

Results returned from a Basic or Advanced search are sorted according to their document reference number – ie. the original museum catalogue sequence.

Results from the four “Browse” lists: Authors of Eyewitness Accounts; Authors of Propaganda Material; Individuals names on Biographical Index Cards and Synagogues are sorted in Document Reference Number order.

To navigate to previous and next page of the results list, use the arrows to the left and right of results list page numbers located above and below the results list display.

You may revise your search criteria by clicking on the Revise Search button in the left hand navigation bar.

For each item within a results list, a brief citation for that item is provided. Each brief citation includes Section, Heading, Date (when known), Title and Document Reference Number.

Clicking on a title within a citation on a results list takes you directly to the relevant item, opening at the first image within the item on which the search-term has been highlighted.

Users have two options for viewing and navigating an item. The Image View is the default view, and provides full page and document navigation features. The Reading View is an optional view that offers basic page navigation features and an expanded page image display area.

Image View
Clicking on a title within a citation on a results list takes you directly to the first relevant image within an item on which the search-term has been detected. From here, you may navigate to the previous and next page of the document utilizing the left and right arrows within the shaded page navigation bar on the left-hand side of the screen.

You may also enter a page number and click on the "Jump to Page" button to be taken directly to that page.

A "page number" refers to the image number within each archival item, and may not match print or hand-written page numbers, for example in unpaginated pamphlets.

You may choose to modify the size of any page image you are viewing by selecting the reduce or enlarge image magnifying glass from the left-hand navigation bar. This is a useful feature given the wide range of page dimensions found across the collection. The default scale is automatically calculated to resize the image to fit the width of the browser window and works well for viewing pages of the majority of works. If you choose to modify the scale, the new setting will persist until you select another or until you initiate a new search.

If your search was performed utilizing the full text search option, you may choose to view pages that were relevant to your search criteria by selecting a page image number from the list of relevant pages displayed within the left-hand navigation bar.

Reading View
The Reading View hides the title banner and tool bar options from the top of the display page presenting an enlarged image viewing area. This facilitates an unimpaired viewing option for browsing and reading a complete multi-page item.

For each work within the Testaments to the Holocaust database a Full Citation is available, details include:

Full Citation Detail	Description
Section	The category to which the item is assigned in the original Wiener Library catalogue, for example: Propaganda Material: Pedagogic
Title	The Heading assigned in the original Wiener Library catalogue
Detail	Full title or description of the individual item
Author	The author of the work
Publisher	The publisher of the work, where appropriate
Date	The date on which the item was created, when recorded in the citation
Description	The format of the work
Language	The language in which the work is written
Number of pages	The number of pages in an individual work
Document Reference	The shelfmark the item is assigned in the Wiener Library catalogue where one exists, or the Cengage Learning assigned document number

The Full Citation appears at the base of the screen in both Image View and Reading View.

The following links appear on relevant pages on the navigation bar at the top of the page, offering the opportunity to navigate to other features and tools available within Testaments to the Holocaust:

Help	Access the Help documentation
Search Tips	Access Search Tips that provide advice that will improve your search results