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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 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 Kingdom

Holocaust 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, London

The 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 Kingdom

In 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 Kingdom

Join 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.

Hybrid Event: Matthias Weniger – The Restitution of Stolen Silver

At this event, Third Generation Network committee member Tom Willett will introduce Dr Matthias Weniger, head of provenance research at the Bavarian National Museum. Dr Weniger directs a project tracing the heirs of 111 silver objects confiscated by the German Reich and later bought by the museum.

Daniel Finkelstein in conversation with Debórah Dwork at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York

Centre for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY, United States

This special event hosted in partnership with the Centre for Jewish History will see British journalist and politician, Daniel Finkelstein OBE, in conversation with Prof Debórah Dwork in celebration of Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin and the Miraculous Survival of My Family, Daniel Finkelstein’s remarkable new book. Learn more about the legacy of the Wiener Library and the tragic personal histories embedded in its founding.

Heritage Fund The Association of Jewish Refugees Federal Foreign Office

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