Josiah Wedgwood’s Secret Journey
Rosie Whitehouse is a freelance journalist. By chance, Rosie stumbled across a 1946 newspaper report about an illegal immigrant ship that had sailed from the tiny port of Vado near […]
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Exhibition Review: Am Endes des Tunnels
Daniel Adamson is a current PhD student at Durham University, researching portrayals of the relationship between Britain and the Holocaust. During a recent visit to Berlin, he visited the Kindertransport […]
Statement condemning the attack on Halle synagogue, Germany
The Wiener Holocaust Library is appalled and outraged by the murderous attack on Jews gathered in Halle synagogue, Germany. This antisemitic crime was deliberate in its viciousness, targeting a place […]
New Director for The Wiener Holocaust Library
We are delighted to announce that our new Director will be Dr Toby Simpson. We further announce an adaptation of our institutional name from The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust […]
Ruth Wiener
I am the Project Coordinator for The Holocaust Explained, a website run by The Wiener Library which aims to teach schoolchildren about the Holocaust. Whilst carrying out research for our […]
Childhood? – Children’s Perspectives of the Holocaust – Active Remembrance
The project titled Childhood? – Children’s Perspectives of the Holocaust – Active Remembrance has been a joint initiative of the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives (Budapest), the Anne Frank Stichting (Amsterdam), The Wiener […]
The Wiener Holocaust Library’s New Donations – First edition of Anne Frank’s Diary & plans of Operation Sea Lion
We are delighted to report on two recent long-term loans from the Lewis 2013 Trust. The Trust has been generously supporting The Wiener Holocaust Library for a number of years […]
“The Eagle Pharmacy”: Tadeusz Pankiewicz’s Pharmacy in Kraków Ghetto
I am a Volunteer Tour Guide for The Wiener Holocaust Library and this is my first blog for the Library, about the Kraków Ghetto Pharmacy Museum. My recent journey to […]
A Refugee in Leeds: CC. Aronsfeld
Dr Anthony Grenville is Consultant Editor of the Association of Jewish Refugees Journal and Chair of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, and author of Encounters with Albion: […]
Professor David Cesarani Private Library Donated to The Wiener Library
Professor David Cesarani OBE was one of the leading scholars of the Holocaust of his generation and enjoyed an international reputation for both his academic and his media work. He […]
