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In February 2021, The Wiener Holocaust Library began a one-year project to digitise and produce metadata for our entire rare and diverse collection of Tarnschriften (disguised anti-Nazi resistance pamphlets), as well as a small cross-section of the Library’s wider pamphlet collection.
In this two-day event series we invite those interested in the history of the Second World War, the Holocaust and its aftermath to participate and reflect on the legacies of confronting difficult histories, both on the personal and broader, historical level.
A joint statement for Roma and Sinti Genocide Memorial Day (2 August 2021) by René Cassin and The Wiener Holocaust Library.
Senior Curator, Dr Barbara Warnock, explores the subjects that the German-Jewish artist, Gerty Simon, photographed in her London studio.
Exhibition co-curators, Dr Christine Schmidt and Professor Dan Stone, examine the case of Karl Franz, a German Sinto man who likely died on a death march in the last days of the Second World War.
Professor Marius Turda introduces the Library’s upcoming temporary exhibition which will explore the history and the legacies of the global eugenics movement.
This blog examines several accounts given by Hungarian Holocaust survivor and former Library staff member Trude Levi.
In this guest blog, Joanna Beata Michlic explores two cases of missing child Holocaust survivors for whom searches continue to this day.
Kate Williams, from Remembering Srebrenica, talks about their award-winning new podcast which tells the little-known story of genocide and ethnic cleansing right in the heart of Europe through the voices of those who survived it.
To mark this year’s Refugee Week, Edie Martin details Britain’s forgotten history of female internment during the Second World War, in turn, exploring the uniquely female experience of detention.
