The Kitchener Camp
The Kitchener Camp has been largely forgotten today, but in 1939 this derelict army base on the Kent coast became the scene of an extraordinary rescue which saved 4,000 men from the Holocaust.
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Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust
This online exhibition examines the resistance efforts undertaken by Jews during the Holocaust, from armed uprisings, to rescue missions and the maintenance of covert religious practices.
The Persecution of Black People in Nazi Germany: Ronald Roberts’ Story
This exhibition explores the life of Ronald (Ronnie) Roberts (1921-2001), born in Wiesbaden to a white German mother and a British/Barbadian father.
Berlin/London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon
Gerty (Gertrud) Simon (1887-1970) was a German-Jewish photographer renowned in the 1920s and 1930s for her portraits of important political and artistic figures in Weimar Berlin and interwar London.
Fate Unknown: The Search for the Missing After the Holocaust
This online exhibition examines the complicated history of the search for the missing after the Holocaust and the impact today of fates that remain unknown.
On British Soil: Victims of Nazi Persecution in the Channel Islands
During the German occupation of the Channel Islands 1940-1945, many thousands of people were persecuted, including slave labourers, political prisoners and Jews.
A is for Adolf: Teaching German Children Nazi Values
The following is an online version of an exhibition on display at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris from 25 January 2016 to 28 February 2016.
Dilemmas, Choices, Responses: Britain and the Holocaust
The Wiener Library exhibition Dilemmas, Choices, Responses: Britain and the Holocaust considers British responses to the Holocaust and the Nazis’ antisemitic persecution.
A Bitter Road: Britain and the Refugee Crisis of the 1930s and 1940s
Ongoing violence and upheaval in Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq and Sudan today has created an upsurge in the number of refugees fleeing conflict, in what is commonly referred to as a refugee ‘crisis’.
Science and Suffering: Victims and Perpetrators of Nazi Human Experimentation
Under the Nazis, medical research supported a new vision for a ‘racially pure’ Europe. Science and Nazi ideology worked together to shape this new world.
