The Wiener Library is pleased to announce its exhibition, co-curated by the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Regional Ambassadors and the Library. The exhibition highlights documents, photographs and other resources from the Library’s collections that challenge commonly held assumptions regarding British responses to the Holocaust, such as that the British government entered the war to save the Jews.
The exhibition explores the British public’s responses to the Holocaust, as well as antisemitism within British society; information about the Holocaust in the press, and the stance of the British Government regarding the unfolding violence against Jews in Europe.
The exhibition also showcases the important work of Holocaust Educational Trust Ambassadors and Regional Ambassadors, who are committed to learning about and remembering the Holocaust, and are passionate about encouraging others to do the same.
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Suggested Reading List:
- After Daybreak: The Liberation of Belsen, 1945 by Ben Shephard
- …And The Policeman Smiled by Barry Turner
- The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted It? Edited by Michael J. Neufeld and Michael Berenbaum
- The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity by Martin Gilbert
- Britain and the Holocaust: Remembering and Representing War and Genocide, edited by Caroline Sharples and Olaf Jensen
- “Bystanders” to the Holocaust: A Re-evaluation, edited by David Cesarani and Paul A. Levine
- Holocaust Consciousness in Contemporary Britain by Andy Pearce
- I Light A Candle by Gena Turgel and Veronica Groocock
- Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, edited by Mark Jonathan Harris and Deborah Oppenheimer
- Justice Delayed: How Britain Became a Refuge for Nazi War Criminals by David Cesarani
- Return to Auschwitz by Kitty Hart-Moxon
- Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England by Anthony Julius
