‘Beware this Poison’: Fighting Fascism in 1970s Britain
Using items from the Wiener Holocaust Library’s unique archive, this exhibition highlights the struggle over immigration, race and nation in 1970s Britain.
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Holocaust Memorial Day 2025: ‘Create a better future’ with JW3
Join us for a Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony centred around this year’s theme, “Create a Better Future”, where we come together to remember the Holocaust and subsequent genocides.
Online Talk: Antisemitism and the Holocaust since October 7th, with Dave Rich
Join us for an online talk from Dr Dave Rich, Director of Policy at the Community Security Trust (CST), exploring how antisemitism links to interpretations and understanding of the Holocaust, and how that has changed since October 7th 2023.
Hybrid Book Talk with LCSCA: The New Antisemitism, Shalom Lappin
This is an LCSCA event in collaboration with the Wiener Holocaust Library. Shalom Lappin will discuss his new book: The New Antisemitism.
Crisis of Britishness? Immigration, Race and Nation in Modern Britain
The idea that British identity and culture is threatened by non-white migration has pervaded contemporary British history. This exhibition highlights far-right nationalist rhetoric and the anti-fascist, anti-racist responses that followed. Using items from our unique archive it highlights the struggle over immigration, race and nation in Britain in the 1970-90s.
The Gathering Storm
April 1927 Should it go on like this? I In picnic spots, huntsmen had to use firearms in self-defence against National Socialists. Unsuspecting Jewish passers-by were stabbed by National Socialists […]
The Fourth Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture: Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories: Past, Present and Future? Professor Sir Richard Evans
On 22 November we were delighted to host the Fourth Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture, this year delivered by world-renowned historian and academic Professor Sir Richard Evans.
Documenting atrocities: Synagogue attacks during Kristallnacht
This exhibition draws upon a set of documents from our archives that relate to efforts by the JCIO and later The Wiener Library to gather evidence about the attacks on synagogues in Germany and Austria.
Fourth Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture: Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories: Past, Present and Future?
This year’s Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture will take place once again at Gresham College, and will be delivered by esteemed historian Professor Sir Richard Evans.
Fighting Antisemitism returns as a new format online exhibition and travelling display
The Wiener Holocaust Library’s successful exhibition, Fighting Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today, is being displayed in the Houses of Parliament this week to mark the launch of a new online and travelling versions of the curation.
