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The Liberation of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora

April 7th, 2021 by Torsten Jugl

This blog marks the the 76th anniversay of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora. Written by the Library’s Photo Archivist, Torsten Jugl.

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Buried Revisited

March 31st, 2021 by Charles Fox

A special guest blog written by Charles Fox to commemorate the Cambodian Genocide.

USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive now available at the Library

March 8th, 2021 by Christopher Gilley

The Wiener Holocaust Library is very pleased to announce that access to the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive (VHA) will be available in the Wolfson Reading Room to all our members, users, and visitors once we reopen our doors to the public.

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Virtual Workshops for Teachers, Educators and Students

March 1st, 2021 by Roxzann Baker

The Wiener Holocaust Library is pleased to announce the launch of a new educational workshop series aimed at teachers, educators and students of the Holocaust.

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Testifying to the Truth: An Event Series

February 17th, 2021 by Christopher Gilley

The Wiener Holocaust Library is pleased to host a series of workshops and other events designed to engage a variety of researchers, students, faculty, educators and other audiences with our […]

WHL Director expresses dismay over Ken Loach event

February 11th, 2021 by Toby Simpson

The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Director, Dr Toby Simpson writes to St Peter’s College expressing dismay over Ken Loach event.

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Persecution of gay people in Nazi Germany

February 9th, 2021 by Dr Barbara Warnock

To mark LGBTQ+ History Month, Dr Barbara Warnock looks at the persecution faced by gay people in Nazi Germany, and some of the documents in The Wiener Holocaust Library’s International Tracing Service digital archive that contain evidence about their experiences.

Konin: Shtetl or Shtot?

February 4th, 2021 by Howard Falksohn

This is the question that Theo Richmond invariably puts to his interviewees, the former Jewish inhabitants of Konin, and the consensus seems to be that they regarded Konin as a […]

Statement on the suing of Holocaust historians in Poland

February 3rd, 2021 by Dr Toby Simpson

The Wiener Holocaust Library expresses great concern, along with IHRA, Yad Vashem, and other organisations, about litigation being used to intimidate scholars of the Holocaust in Poland.