New Stolpersteine for victims of the Holocaust in my hometown
By Bela Wessollek The Holocaust happened 80 years ago, meaning it is departing quickly from living memory, and as human beings it is hard to appreciate the sheer number of […]
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Recovery & Repair: Supporting Jewish Family Histories of the Holocaust in Britain
This is an in-person event taking place at the Scottish Story Telling Centre in Edinburgh on Tuesday 12 September.
Call for Papers: Archives in/of Transit: Historical Perspective from the 1930s to the Present
This workshop will explore new ways of thinking about archives, archival records, and other artifacts historians might use as primary sources to gain deeper insight into the history of migrants in transit and the knowledge they possessed, produced, transmitted, or lost.
PRESS RELEASE: A new display at the Wiener Holocaust Library marks 90 years of the world’s oldest Holocaust archive
Two concurrent exhibitions will launch on the 4 July 2023. Highlights From the Archives reveals some of the most significant objects from the archive that is one of the world’s […]
Open Letter from The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Director to The Telegraph newspaper
Dear Sir, In The Wiener Holocaust Library’s collections, we have a copy of Arithmetic for National Schools produced by the Nazi Gau of North and South Westphalia, published in 1941. […]
PRESS RELEASE: Catrine Val: Living Memory
Photographic Exhibition and Slideshow 19–23 June 2023, Curated by Jana Riedel and Matthew Shaul Produced during the summer of 2020, the Living Memory project showcases artist Catrine Val’s poignant and […]
The Wiener Holocaust Library at 90: Spotlight on Holocaust Education
The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Education Programme, designed to support schools, colleges, universities, students and teachers, has evolved immeasurably over the last decade. Read more about how the programme has developed.
Symposium Report : New Directions in the Study of the Roma Genocide at The Wiener Holocaust Library
Day 1: May 10th 2023 The symposium opened with a first panel on Microhistory, with a presentation by Grégoire Cousin, titled ‘The fate of the Roma deported to Suha-Balca farm: […]
Refugee Week: 19 – 25 June 2023
Refugee Week is the world’s largest arts & culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of people seeking sanctuary. It’s been running in the UK since 1998 and is […]
The Wiener Holocaust Library at 90: Spotlight on Digitisation
As we mark our 90th anniversary, we recognise that although the Library is an institution rooted in the past, we remain oriented towards the future. In the spirit of modernisation, in the 2020s the Library has embarked on a major digitisation project in order to conserve, and make even more accessible, our unique collections.
