As part of this year’s Orwell Festival, join George Orwell’s official biographer D. J. Taylor (Orwell: The New Life), historian Dan Stone (The Holocaust: An Unfinished History) and chair Jean Seaton (Director, The Orwell
Foundation) for this special Orwell Festival event at The Wiener Holocaust Library as they consider attitudes to Jews, Jewishness and antisemitism in George Orwell’s writing and journalism.
The London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and the Wiener Holocaust Library invite you to a celebration of Dave Rich’s newly published book, Everyday Hate; How Antisemitism is Built Into Our World and How You Can Change It.
To mark the anniversary of the German takeover of Austria, join The Wiener Holocaust Library and Generation 2 Generation to consider the significance of the Anschluss and its impact on the Jewish Community in Austria, as well as hearing some individual stories of Austrian Jews.
On Wednesday 23 November the Library hosted the Third Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture at Gresham College. We were delighted that so many attended in-person or tuned in to watch this lecture.
In this talk, Dr Toby Simpson will discuss the reasons behind the extreme brutality of Kristallnacht in Vienna. Compared to other locations in the Third Reich, even in other cities where local antisemitism was rife, the brutal nature and long-term impact of anti-Jewish violence in the Austrian capital is striking. This talk will examine collections held at The Wiener Holocaust Library and consider what insights the study of this terrible historical event might offer people today.
The Anschluss to Nazi Germany radically changed the lives of the Jewish population. While anti–Jewish measures had progressed in Germany over the course of five years, they were implemented in Austria overnight.
In February 2022, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club launched its “The WhY Word” campaign, which is calling on the fans to discontinue using the term “Yid.” Based on the analysis of numerous primary sources, interviews, and on-site research, this presentation seeks to understand the various perspectives on and the contested meanings of the term in the context of Tottenham Hotspur FC and the local fan culture.
Our Third Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture will highlight the experiences of Jewish refugees fleeing from antisemitic persecution and from World War II to Portugal.
