Collections Archives - The Wiener Holocaust Library

Refugees, Family Papers, and the Value of Shifting Our Perspective

December 5th, 2022

On 23 November Professor Marion Kaplan delivered a fascinating talk at the Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture, hosted by Gresham College in London. She spoke to a full and captivated audience on the subject of ‘Lives in Limbo: Jewish Refugees in Portugal, 1940-1945’.

Professor Kaplan vividly described the experiences of the tens of thousands of Jews who pursued this perilous but exceptional escape route out of Nazi-occupied Europe at the height of the Second World War and the Holocaust.

Holocaust Letters

November 30th, 2022

This exhibition examines Holocaust-era correspondence for evidence of how Jewish persecutees understood what was happening to them as events of the Holocaust unfolded.

Hybrid Exhibition talk: Kristallnacht in Vienna: The Radicalisation of Antisemitic Policy in the Nazi State

November 24th, 2022

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.

Tuesday Tours of the Library

October 27th, 2022

Founded in 1933, the Library is Britain’s largest and most important collection of material relating to the Holocaust and genocide. We are pleased to announce that our public archive tours […]

Virtual Event: Holocaust Survival, Memory and Documentation: An Event to Honour the Kaposi Family

October 27th, 2022

Please join us virtually to attend a special evening in honour of Dr Agnes Kaposi, MBE, FREng, celebrated engineer and survivor of the Holocaust, to mark her family’s generous donation of their family’s document and book collection to The Wiener Holocaust Library.

Virtual Talk: Photographs and Family History Research

August 18th, 2022

To coincide with our exhibition ‘There was a time…’: Jewish Family Photographs Before 1939, join members of The Wiener Holocaust Library staff as they discuss the importance of photographs in family research.

Photograph of Dorothea Jacoby (née Salinger), c. 1910

‘There was a time…’: Jewish Family Photographs Before 1939

August 9th, 2022

Family photographs have often been overlooked as historical or artistic objects in their own right. This exhibition asks visitors to reconsider their significance.

Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust

August 1st, 2022

This Reading Room exhibition draws upon historical documents in the archives of The Wiener Holocaust Library to focus on the theme of the renewal of Jewish communities after the Holocaust.