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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WHL Director expresses dismay over Ken Loach event
The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Director, Dr Toby Simpson writes to St Peter’s College expressing dismay over Ken Loach event.
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 […]
Welcome to our new site!
The Wiener Holocaust Library has launched a new website! We are delighted to have this new resource for our friends, supporters and new visitors to access.
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 […]
The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Director calls for judicious use of evidence in the fight against anti-Gypsyism
The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Director, Dr Toby Simpson, wrote to The Times in response to Oliver Moody’s article Porajmos: the Nazi genocide forgotten by the world (29 September 2020). We were pleased […]
