Our exhibition space is being refurbished this summer in an exciting upgrade to our outreach and engagement programme. Please take note of disruption to readers and partial closure of the Library.
The Wiener Holocaust Library in partnership with the Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London (together the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership, HGRP), the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany (Claims Conference) are pleased to invite calls for papers that explore the history of the Holocaust through the prism of age, with a particular focus on older Jews and other persecuted groups before, during, and after the Holocaust.
Our volunteers are vital to our success as an institution. Undertaking translation, document numbering, conservation, and delivering guided tours, they form a valuable part of our operation. This Volunteers Week we’re delighted to share a selection of testimonials from our current volunteers, describing the important work they undertake and what it means to them to be a part of the Library team.
Refugee Week is the world’s largest arts & culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. Established in 1998 in the UK, this annual festival aligns with World Refugee Day, celebrated globally on June 20th.
New call for proposals for a thematic section of History of Intellectual Culture (HIC).
This week representatives from the Library were honoured to attend a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Yezidis in the Houses of parliament. The meeting included contributions from two survivors of the genocide, Hewan Omer and Khalida Ilyas, who now work with the Free Yezidi Foundation in Iraq, a not-for-profit providing humanitarian and human rights support to Yezidis.
To mark its 90th anniversary, the Wiener Holocaust Library welcomed supporters, cultural figures, politicians and philanthropists to a fundraising gala dinner at the prestigious Wallace Collection.
One year ago today, fighting broke out in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum. This was only the latest escalation in a bloody conflict that has caused, by a considerable margin, the most urgent humanitarian and refugee crisis in the world today.
To mark the anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, we explore a series of paintings from our art collection by British artist, Eric Taylor.
Join us for an Exhibition Talk with curator Dr Kinga Bloch at the Wiener Holocaust Library. The Curator’s Talk will be followed by an Archive Tour, which highlights some fascinating historical documents from our collection.
