Applications are open to attend the HGRP’s one-day virtual symposium that will examine themes related to the challenges of transnational digital curation and the sustainability of digital humanities resources.
Our two-day events programme at the Manchester Jewish Museum offers historians, archivists, family historians and heritage practitioners the chance to view one of the Library’s exhibitions and learn more about the ITS archive.
Poetry is a powerful tool for healing and remembrance. For World Poetry Day 2022, the Library’s Periodicals Librarian highlights some of the relevant material in our collections.
Head of Collections, Greg Toth, announces a new collection of rare testimonies taken from elderly Germans who either participated or witnessed horrors of the Holocaust.
We are delighted to announce that the Library’s new free educational series for the 2022 Spring/Summer Term is now open for booking.
We are pleased to announce that in November 2021 the Library will be launching a new online Refugee Map resource. Supported by Arts Council England funding, this new digital resource will highlight the Library’s rich collections of Family Papers, making our archival material related to refugee stories more accessible.
In February 2021, The Wiener Holocaust Library began a one-year project to digitise and produce metadata for our entire rare and diverse collection of Tarnschriften (disguised anti-Nazi resistance pamphlets), as well as a small cross-section of the Library’s wider pamphlet collection.
Exhibition co-curators, Dr Christine Schmidt and Professor Dan Stone, examine the case of Karl Franz, a German Sinto man who likely died on a death march in the last days of the Second World War.
Kate Williams, from Remembering Srebrenica, talks about their award-winning new podcast which tells the little-known story of genocide and ethnic cleansing right in the heart of Europe through the voices of those who survived it.
To mark this year’s Refugee Week, Edie Martin details Britain’s forgotten history of female internment during the Second World War, in turn, exploring the uniquely female experience of detention.
