Online Event: The Impact of the Israel – Hamas War, with Natasha Hausdorff and Ben M. Freeman
Please join us for this AJR 3G event, a discussion between Natasha Hausdorff and Ben M. Freeman, chaired by Michael Newman.
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Online Book talk: Michael Lipkin, translator of An Ordinary Youth, by Walter Kempowski
From the author of the seminal All For Nothing, comes An Ordinary Youth: an astonishing autobiographical novel and a chilling exploration of how one family adjusted to life under the Nazis.
Book Talk: I Seek a Kind Person, Julian Borger
The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United KingdomIn 1938, Jewish families were scrambling to get out Vienna. In desperation, children were advertised in the Manchester Guardian. The right words in the right order could mean the difference between life and death. I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped them Escape the Holocaust is a powerful and personal investigative memoir of survival and loss, spanning generations within families shaped by the long shadow of history.
Stolpersteine laying ceremony and panel event on the Holocaust in the Netherlands
The world’s largest decentralised memorial art installation, the Stolperstein (stumbling stone) project has placed over 100,000 stones in 26 countries. The stones to be installed in Amsterdam commemorate Dr Margarete Wiener-Saulmann, Kurt Zielenziger, and Bernhard Krieg. All worked for The Wiener Holocaust Library’s predecessor organisation in Amsterdam, the Jewish Central Information Office, and the stones will be placed outside the offices of the JCIO on Jan van Eyckstraat.
Holocaust Memorial Day 2024: An evening of remembrance with The Wiener Holocaust Library, Camden Council, JW3 and the Jewish Museum London
The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United KingdomA Holocaust Memorial Day event with Camden Council, JW3 and the Jewish Museum London.
Online Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture: The Wiener Library at 90, Ruth Wiener’s Story
A Holocaust Memorial day lecture with the University of York. This event is organised in response to the 2024 HMD theme of ‘Fragility of Freedom’.
Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 Lecture by Barbara Yelin: “But I Live” – Emmie Arbel’s Illustrated Story of the Fragility of Freedom
The Institute for the History of the German Jews in Hamburg, the Wiener Holocaust Library London and the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Leicester are pleased to co-host a virtual lecture for Holocaust Memorial Day 2024. The event is organised in response to the 2024 HMD theme “The Fragility of Freedom” which invites us to consider the erosion of freedom by perpetrator regimes, including key rights such as freedom as expression, of religion and of movement.
Exhibition Launch: ‘IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS’ a daughter’s response to her father’s silence, with Learning from the Righteous and Finchley Reform Synagogue
The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United KingdomHolocaust education charity Learning from the Righteous and Finchley Reform Synagogue’s HMD Group are honoured to help fulfil the family’s wish that Jenny’s work continues to provoke reflection and are pleased to present this travelling exhibition suitable for schools, colleges and communal spaces where each shoe exhibited bears witness to a life cut short. Join us for the launch of the exhibition at this evening event at The Wiener Holocaust Library.
The Zone of Interest: A screening with Jonathan Glazer and A24
Curzon Soho 99 Shaftesbury Avenue, LondonThe Wiener Holocaust Library and A24 films present a screening of The Zone of Interest. Directed by one of the Library's valued trustees, the evening will also feature remarks from the film's creator Jonathan Glaser, and remarks from the Director of the Library Dr Toby Simpson.
Virtual Student and Teacher Talk: Forgotten Victims: The Nazi Genocide of the Roma and Sinti
This workshop marks 81 years since that decree and yet little is known about the genocide carried out against the Roma and Sinti communities of Europe by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War. Referred to as ‘the forgotten Holocaust’ by Professor Eve Rosenhaft, this workshop draws upon The Wiener Holocaust Library’s collections of material on the genocide to uncover the story of this understudied aspect of Nazi persecution.
Public Lecture, Resisters: How ordinary Jews fought persecution in Hitler’s Germany, by Professor Wolf Gruner
Birkbeck, University of London, Clore lecture Theatre Clore lecture Theatre, Clore Management Centre, United KingdomIn collaboration with the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership (The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London). In this lecture from the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Professor Wolf Gruner will speak about his latest publication, Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany.
Book talk: Andrea Hammel, The Kindertransport: what really happened
The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United KingdomJoin The Wiener Holocaust Library to mark the publication of Andrea Hammel’s important new book on the Kindertransport child rescue scheme, based on extensive new research. In this talk Andrea Hammel will show what really happened using her research into governmental and organisational records as well as oral testimonies and ego documents.
