A new seminar series: Humanitarianism, Refugees and the Holocaust
We are pleased to announce a new seminar series ‘Humanitarianism, Refugees, and the Holocaust’, which will run throughout the 2023/2024 academic year.
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Women’s History Month – Using The Holocaust Explained to teach about women in the Third Reich
March is Women’s History Month. In this article we explore how are educational website, The Holocaust Explained, can support those teaching about women in the Third Reich.
International Women’s Day: Witnessing, Resisting, Documenting
To celebrate this year’s International Women’s Day, we look at notable women in the archival collections of The Wiener Holocaust Library, who stand out in various ways in their contributions to Holocaust memory and history.
Holocaust Letters: “A gift, a privilege and a huge task”
On 23 February we welcomed special guests to the Library for the launch of our latest exhibition, Holocaust Letters. Our speakers for the evening included the Director of the Library Dr Toby Simpson, our Director of Research Dr Christine Schmidt, and those who have generously donated their own family’s Holocaust-era letters and curated a panel of the exhibition.
A year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Wiener Holocaust Library appeals for support in resisting the weaponisation of history
One year ago, Russia invaded Ukraine, an independent and sovereign nation, justifying their aggression with spurious claims that they were “denazifying” the country. The Wiener Holocaust Library issued a statement at that time refuting the claims and condemning the abuse of the memory the Holocaust and the Nazi era as a weapon of war.
Jewish News: ‘Help, help, help…’ Heartbreaking Holocaust letters on display for first time
Remarkable exhibition entitled ‘Holocaust Letters’ at the Wiener Holocaust Library demonstrates how “the history of the Shoah is still being written”.
iNews: Secret letters from the Holocaust reveal defiance in the midst of chaos: ‘Be brave and cope’
Correspondence shows how families exchanged messages across borders, in the midst of destruction – and reveals how much they understood about the genocide unfolding Etan Smallman At first glance, the […]
BBC World Service: ‘Forgotten Holocaust’: Gypsies fight for the memory of victims of Nazism
Swaminathan Natarajan “Why did they want to kill us? Why did they kill us?” asks Hinta Gheorghe, an 83-year-old Roma and Holocaust survivor. At the age of two, during World […]
New exhibition at UNESCO commemorates Jewish life before the Holocaust
This month the Library’s exhibition, ‘There Was a Time’: Jewish Family Photographs before 1939, will be restaged in Paris at UNESCO’s global headquarters.
Our statement regarding high-profile antisemitism and Holocaust denial
The Wiener Holocaust Library has always stood firmly against Holocaust denial and distortion. We are the world’s oldest archive dedicated to the open study of the overwhelming documentary record of the Holocaust and we work hard to use our vast and unique collections to put the past at the service of the future.
