See what’s coming up at the library, or you may be interested in past events.
Join the co-curators of the Fate Unknown exhibition, Prof Dan Stone and Dr Christine Schmidt, who will explore the remarkable, little-known story of the search for the missing after the Holocaust.
This workshop will help you take the first steps in conducting your own family research using the International Tracing Service digital archive, including using sources freely available online. Join our Senior ITS Archive Team Manager, Elise Bath and ITS Researcher Ian Rich as they demonstrate the uses of this important archive.
We are delighted to announce that the Wiener Holocaust Library is participating in this year’s Open House Festival. The Open House Festival offers an opportunity for people to visit and gain access to a significant number of buildings, landscapes and neighbourhoods across London. As the world’s oldest Holocaust archive and Britain’s largest, this event gives the opportunity for visitors to enter and explore the Library and its collections.
As part of the closed “Bloody Folklore” Workshop on New Research on Music, Archives and the Holocaust, The Wiener Holocaust Library, the Yale Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, The Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London, ORT World Music and the Holocaust, and the UCL Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies are delighted to host two musical performances by Yiddish Glory and Songs from Testimonies.
As part of our new academic books event series, The Wiener Holocaust Library is pleased to host Nick Underwood who will speak about his new book, Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France. Participants can register to attend in person or online.
As part of our new academic books event series, The Wiener Holocaust Library is pleased to host the authors of Przemysłowa Concentration Camp: The Camp, the Children, the Trial, Dr Katarzyna Person and Prof Johannes-Dieter Steinert. Participants can register to attend in person or online.
Join us to hear author Susan Ronald in conversation with award-winning author and historian Amanda Foreman about Susan’s new book, Hitler’s Aristocrats.
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 this talk, Dan Stone discusses his book, 'Fate Unknown', which tells the story of the last great unknown archive of Nazism, the International Tracing Service.
From Discrimination to Death studies the process of genocide through the human rights violations that occur during genocide. Using individual testimonies and in-depth multi-country field research from the Armenian Genocide, Holocaust and Cambodian Genocide, this book demonstrates that a pattern of specific escalating human rights abuses takes place in genocide.
A roundtable discussion with Brolly Productions focusing on the importance of celebrating and sharing testimonies from the Roma community.
Red Cross messages had been introduced during the First World War, when an urgent need developed for a means that would re-establish the communications that had been severed by the conflict, for example between prisoners of war and their families at home. During the Second World War, as conventional means of communication were increasingly denied to Jews trapped in the Third Reich, Red Cross messages came to play a vital part in what remained of the contacts between those Jews and their family members who had escaped abroad; little systematic attention has, however, as yet been devoted to them.
