Events

See what’s coming up at the library, or you may be interested in past events.

Panel Discussion: Antisemitism Today

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

More than 75 years after the Holocaust, antisemitism is on the rise again on the left as well as the far right. Our speakers have expertise on antisemitism in France, Britain and Germany, and amongst the topics that they will consider are recent manifestations of antisemitism in these countries; the connections that current day antisemitism has with antisemitism in the past, and the reasons why antisemitism persists.

Virtual Panel and Film Talkback: Complicit and The Legacy of the St Louis

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

This free online event will follow a screening of the documentary film, Complicit, and will include the creator and producer of the documentary, Robert Krakow, Esq., as well as former child refugee passengers on the MS St Louis.

Hybrid book talk: Deborah Cadbury: The School that Escaped the Nazis

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

Deborah Cadbury will discuss her book on the school, which features moving first-hand testimony, letters, diaries and present-day interviews, The School That Escaped the Nazis is a dramatic human tale that offers a unique child's-eye perspective on Nazi persecution and the Holocaust. It is also the story of one woman's refusal to allow her beliefs in a better, more equitable world to be overtaken by the evil that surrounded her.

Exhibition talk: Joe Mulhall: The Rise of the Today’s Far Right

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

Joe Mulhall's dramatic experiences on the front line of anti-fascist activism, including infiltrating far-right events in both Europe and America, coupled with his academic research, will clearly explain the roots of both elected and non-elected far-right movements across the globe and seek to explain how we got here and where we could be headed.

Exhibition talk: Conspiracy and Antisemitism: combatting the Protocols of the Elders of Zion 100 years ago and why this remains significant today

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

Antisemitism entered the political mainstream in Britain in 1920 when a national newspaper, the Morning Post, published 18 long articles loosely based on the forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. In this lecture David Feldman explores the appeal of conspiracy theory in these postwar years and the responses of British Jews to the threat they faced.

Online Event: Passion, Frustration and Bureaucracy: British Voluntary Efforts for Refugees from Nazism

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

In this online event, Becky Taylor will draw from her recent book, 'Refugees in Twentieth-Century Britain. A History', to explore the enormous efforts made by voluntary organisations to bring refugees from Nazism to Britain.

Due to the planned rail strike, this will now be an online only event. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Online Workshop: Mapping Migration and the Challenges of Digital Curation

We are pleased to host an interdisciplinary, one-day virtual symposium that will examine themes related to the challenges of transnational digital curation and the sustainability of digital humanities resources in a new digital age for archives and heritage collections.

Virtual Book Talk: Modern Times: The Biography of Hungarian-Jewish Family

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

Drawing on a wide range of historical and literary sources, as well as extended interviews with family members and Holocaust survivors, Modern Times examines the reality of Hungarian-Jewish life in the first half of the twentieth century.

Hybrid Event: Testimonies of the Farhud in the Sephardi Voices UK Archive

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

In this event, we will introduce the Sephardi Voices UK archive, explore testimonies of those who lived through the 1941 pogrom, the Farhud, and discuss the long-term effects on Baghdad's Jewish population.

Heritage Fund The Association of Jewish Refugees Federal Foreign Office
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