Testifying to the Truth: An Event Series
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 […]
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Persecution of gay people in Nazi Germany
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?
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 […]
Testifying to the Truth – New digital resource launching January 2021
The Wiener Holocaust Library’s new digital resource, Testifying to the Truth, will soon be freely accessible online. This online database shares eyewitness accounts from the Holocaust, many of which have never […]
Margarethe’s Story
While researching and writing The Holocaust Explained for The Wiener Holocaust Library over the past two and a half years, I have been lucky enough to explore hundreds of the […]
Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership
The Wiener Holocaust Library is embarking on an exciting new partnership with the University of Huddersfield, the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London, and the Holocaust Exhibition […]
The Persecution of Black People in the Nazi Camp System
This blog post was written by Elise Bath (Senior International Tracing Service Archive Researcher) and Roxzann Baker (The Holocaust Explained Project Coordinator) as part of Black History Month 2020. Black […]
Remembering Mirjam Wiener
In 1943, Mirjam Wiener, the daughter of Dr Alfred Wiener, founder of The Wiener Holocaust Library, was deported from Amsterdam to Westerbork, where she spent seven months before being deported […]
Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement: Forced Migration and World War II – new database available at The Wiener Holocaust Library
We are delighted to announce that the Library can now provide free access to Gale’s recently released digital primary sources project Refugees, Relief and Resettlement: Forced Migration and World War […]
Picturing Refugee Families
In 2020, The Wiener Holocaust Library was awarded a generous grant from Arts Council England‘s Designated Development Funding towards improving and access to our collections and re-developing our online resource Refugee […]
