See what’s coming up at the library, or you may be interested in past events.
Join us for an evening with Menachem Rosensaft, author of Burning Psalms: Confronting Adonai after Auschwitz, who will discuss his book in conversation with Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg. This event will explore Rosensaft’s reflections on faith, memory, and resilience in the aftermath of the trauma of the Shoah.
The Wiener Holocaust Library is pleased to host a panel presentation of new, cutting-edge research on the Holocaust in Hungary, in particular the role of transportation in accelerating the Final Solution there. Researchers will present their new findings on the deportation of Jews by train in Hungary in 1944, with specific focus on the train that left Debrecen, headed to Auschwitz-Birkenau, but that was diverted instead to Strasshof concentration camp in Vienna.
Dr Jane Brooks will discuss the recruitment of Jewish refugee nurses to the UK, mapping the challenges and sometimes kindnesses many of these young women faced in trying to gain a place to train as a nurse and their ongoing bravery and determination to create a space of professional independence for themselves.
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day, please join us for a film screening of The Silent Village featuring guest speakers at Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil.
Held as part of the Traces of Belsen Exhibition Event series. Struk’s exploration demonstrates not only the manifold reasons for photographing the crimes committed by the Nazis, but also the ways the images have – and continue to be – interpreted. She questions whether the ways in which we have engaged with them has honoured those who risked their lives to take and secure them.
Held as part of the Traces of Belsen Exhibition Event series. Join us for a talk by Professor Rainer Schulze who will discuss this lesser-known aspect of Belsen camps, exploring how many 'exchanges' actually took place, and why there were not more, including a focus on the role of Britain and the US.
Held as part of our Traces of Belsen exhibition events series. This talk will explore emotions present in liberator narratives of Belsen, the anger of the perpetrators and disgust of the survivors. This research complicates British (and Canadian) reactions to, and actions during, liberation.
As part of its New Academic Book Series, The Wiener Holocaust Library is pleased to announce a lecture with Hans Soetaert about his new book, The Scattered Library: The Various Fates of the Remnants of Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute of Sexual Science Collection in France and Czechoslovakia, 1932–1942.
This book provides a condensed critical resource on Lengyel’s testimonies, addressing matters of historical veracity, of trauma, of gender, of memory, and of genre in the transmission and reception of Holocaust testimonies over time and across cultures.
As part of its New Academic Book Series, The Wiener Holocaust Library is pleased to present this Hybrid Book Talk with Historian Lyndsey Stonebridge and Documentary Filmmaker Amanda Rubin who will discuss the work of two remarkable women who understood totalitarianism close up.
As part of its New Academic Book Series, The Wiener Holocaust Library is pleased to announce a lecture with Dr Tony Kushner on his new book, The Jewish Pedlar. This talk will focus on themes relevant to the history of the Holocaust, such as the 'Jewish pedlar' trope and other destructive stereotypes.
Held as part of the Traces of Belsen exhibition event series. We welcome Sue Vice and Dan Stone in conversation about Bergen-Belsen’s importance in British Holocaust awareness. Vice and Stone will describe the significance that the liberation of Bergen-Belsen holds in British public awareness, such as in schools, memorials, museums, and films.
