See what’s coming up at the library, or you may be interested in past events.
As part of its New Academic Book Series, The Wiener Holocaust Library is pleased to announce a lecture with Dr Florian Zabransky on his new book Jewish Men and the Holocaust: Sexuality, Emotions, Masculinity.
In Vanishing Vienna historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German annexation through the early 1960s. Join us for the latest event in our new Academic Books series.
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.
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.
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.
The Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership (HGRP), an initiative of The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway University of London, as part of the New Academic Book Series, are pleased to announce a lecture with Jacob Flaws on his new book Spaces of Treblinka, chaired by Dan Stone.
