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Book talk: ‘The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation’ by Roger Moorhouse

The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United Kingdom

The Ładoś operation was one of the largest rescue missions of the Holocaust, and The Forgers tells this extraordinary story for the first time. The author, Roger Moorhouse, will give a short talk about this remarkable book which follows the desperate bids of Jews to obtain life-saving documents, and their painful uncertainty over whether they will be able to escape the murderous machinery of the Holocaust.

Book event: Thomas Harding in conversation with Aviva Dautch about The Maverick – George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing

The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United Kingdom

Join The Wiener Holocaust Library and Jewish Renaissance to mark the publication of Thomas Harding’s The Maverick - the story of the famed publisher George Weidenfeld, who transformed not only publishing but the culture of ideas, from his struggles as an Austrian-Jewish refugee in London to his rise as a world-renowned literary figure.

Daniel Finkelstein in conversation with Sam Finkelstein on Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United Kingdom

Join Daniel Finkelstein at the Library for a discussion of his family memoir with his son Sam, who acted as the first reader of the book. The event will also be a chance to view the Library’s ninetieth anniversary exhibitions, one of which, The Wiener Family Story, features some of the documents and stories that are featured in Finkelstein’s book.

Hybrid Book Talk: The Box with the Sunflower Clasp – Jewish flight to Shanghai

The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United Kingdom

As part of our Family History events series, the Library is pleased to host Rachel Meller talking about her first book, The Box with the Sunflower Clasp, which relates the flight of her aunt and grandparents from Nazi-run Vienna to the unlikely haven of Shanghai. She will describe the resilience and enterprise of the 20,000-strong Jewish community within the challenging surroundings of the war-torn Chinese port.

Book Talk: In Search of Berlin: The Story of a Reinvented City, John Kampfner

The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United Kingdom

Part of The Wiener Holocaust at Ninety exhibition event series. In Search of Berlin is an 800-year story, a dialogue between past and present; it is a new way of looking at this turbulent and beguiling city on its never-ending journey of reinvention.

Noor Inayat Khan: A Life of Courage, An Evening of Remembrance with Pir Zia Inayat Khan in conversation with Shrabani Basu

The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United Kingdom

The Noor Inayat Khan Memorial Trust & the Wiener Library invite you to an event to remember her life and courage in a rare UK conversation between her nephew Pir Zia Inayat Khan, a Sufi scholar, head of the Inayatiyya and founder of the Sulūk Academy, and her biographer, Shrabani Basu, author of Spy Princess, and chair of the Noor Inayat Khan Memorial Trust.

Book talk: Depravity’s Rainbow: A Dark History of Space Travel

The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United Kingdom

Depravity’s Rainbow examines the origins of rocketry and space exploration during the Holocaust, when nascent space technology was mobilised by the Nazi regime as a weapon which they hoped might turn the tide of war.

In Conversation: Lord Daniel Finkelstein and Professor Philippe Sands

Beveridge Hall Beveridge Hall, Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

An event to mark the publication of Lord Daniel Finkelstein’s Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival, in conversation with Professor Philippe Sands

£10

Book event: A Dual Perspective: Sir Konrad Schiemann and Sir Bernard Rix in Conversation

The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United Kingdom

The Wiener Holocaust Library is pleased to host this conversation between one of our patrons, The Rt Hon Sir Bernard Rix KC, and The Rt Hon Sir Konrad Schiemann about Schiemann’s recently published memoir A Dual Perspective: the German in an English Judge

Heritage Fund The Association of Jewish Refugees Federal Foreign Office

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