Virtual Book Talk: The Boy from Boskovice: A Father’s Secret Life
Join The Wiener Holocaust Library for this online event to mark the publication of Vicky Unwin’s memoir about her father.
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Virtual Book Launch: Beyond Camps and Forced Labour – Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference
We are delighted to announce the publication of the proceedings of Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Sixth International Conference, co-edited by Suzanne Bardgett, Christine Schmidt and Dan Stone.
A Virtual Event: Hans Albrecht Foundation Annual Lecture and Human Rights Award
Join us for the presentation of Hans Albrecht Foundation Human Rights Award 2021 to Professor David Nott, Consultant Surgeon at St Mary’s Hospital, London.
A Virtual Launch Event: Testifying to the Truth Digital Resource and Panel Discussion
Join us for the launch of our new digital resource, Testifying to the Truth. This online database shares eyewitness accounts from the Holocaust, many of which have never been available to the public online before and have been translated, by a team of the Library’s volunteers, into English for the first time.
A Virtual Talk: New works on British Colonial Violence
This event marks the recent publication of two important contributions which challenge traditional understandings of the extent of colonial violence and the process of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire.
Holocaust Memorial Day 2021
We are delighted to announce that Sir Keir Starmer, Lord Eric Pickles and Rabbi Gordon will be joining The Wiener Holocaust Library for an online event to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day 2021.
Virtual Book Launch: The Fatherland and the Jews
The discussion will consider what we can learn from the past – particularly the still-urgent issue - the rise of antisemitism and populism, and the necessity and effectiveness of an intellectual resistance.
A Virtual Talk: Defiance and Protest. Forgotten Individual Jewish Resistance in Nazi Germany
Jewish resistance during the Holocaust is largely understood as rare armed group activities in the Nazi-occupied East, for example, ghetto uprisings or partisan activities. By contrast, this talk focuses on forgotten individual acts of resistance, like the case of Hertha Reis, who protested in plain daylight against the persecution in 1941, a few months before the mass deportation started in the capital of the Third Reich.
