Exhibitions / A Chance to Breathe: Photographs by Rohingya Refugees in Cox’s Bazar Camp
Our latest exhibition showcases the award-winning photography of three survivors of the Rohingya genocide. Their works provide a rich and intimate look at Rohingya life in the refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, offering a rare glimpse into the daily lives of Rohingya refugees and genocide survivors.
Wiener Digital Collections / Explore our new online archive
We’ve launched a ground-breaking new digital archive featuring thousands of pages of some of our most important collections.
Current opening hours and important visitor information
The Library is open Monday – Friday, 10am – 5pm.
The Reading Room closes early on Fridays, at 1:30pm
The Library is closed on Bank Holidays.
Our internal lift is currently out of order. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause to Readers, and are working to get it back up and running as soon as possible.
Closure Notices
Thursday 3 April – The Reading Room will be closed all day
Monday 28 April – The Exhibition Gallery will close early, at 3pm
If you have a query please email [email protected] or call 0207 636 7247.
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Getting here
The Wiener Holocaust Library
29 Russell Square
London WC1B 5DP
Underground: Russell Square, Goodge Street, King’s Cross
Bus: 188, 168, X68, 7, 59, 68, 91
Rail: Euston and King’s Cross.
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Virtual and In-Person Events
17 Mar / Hybrid Event: A Jewish Boyhood in Nazi Greece: Author Antony Molho in conversation with David Abulafia and Paris Chronakis
In this extraordinary personal account of childhood and survival during the Holocaust, Molho recounts his adventures in 1940s Greece from ages four to six, as his parents risked everything to hide him from the German occupiers.
26 Mar / Online Book Talk – A Nation of Refugees: Russia’s Jews in WWI, with Polly Zavadivker
A Nation of Refugees explores how World War I transformed the lives of East European Jews in ways that were second only to the Holocaust in their magnitude. It examines the contradictory forces that emerged within a collapsing empire at war, including state violence and forced migration, as well as the transformation of Russia’s Jewish civil society through an empire-wide humanitarian campaign to rescue the “nation of refugees,” whose plight embodied that of the Jewish nation itself.
23 Apr / Book Talk: The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz, with Anne Sebba and Lord Daniel Finkelstein
In The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz Anne Sebba traces these tangled questions of deep moral complexity with sensitivity and care, drawing on meticulous archival research and exclusive first-hand accounts to tell the full and astonishing story of the orchestra, its members and the response of other prisoners for the first time.
Support Us / Become a Member
In recent years, demands upon the Library have increased as we face rising antisemitism, racism and Holocaust denial.
Becoming a member is a powerful way you can support us in working towards our wider mission. In return you can enjoy of our exclusive member benefits and know that you are playing a significant role in the future success of the Library.
Collections Catalogue / Visit the catalogue to start your research
Search across our documents, books, periodicals, pamphlets and more.
Visit Us / The Wolfson Reading Room
Anyone is welcome to visit and study our collections in the Wolfson Reading Room.
News / The Wiener Holocaust Library at 90
We’re celebrating 90 years of collecting, preserving and sharing evidence of the Holocaust.
Discover / The Holocaust Explained
Our free educational resource is here to help you learn the essential facts of the Holocaust, its causes and its consequences.
Competition / The Ernst Fraenkel Prize
Research / International Tracing Service (ITS)
Events / Catch up on events at the Library online
Missed one of our events? Visit our YouTube channel for virtual events, book talks, curator talks and more.
Partnership Project / Reawakening Suppressed Music
Reawakening Suppressed Music is a three-year project dedicated to recording and sharing some of the silenced symphonic works written by Jewish composers who suffered under the Nazis.