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Following our successful visit to the SJAC and SJHC in September 2023, a team from the Wiener Holocaust Library is returning to Glasgow to deliver another in-person event, aimed at helping people learn how best to look after their family history.
Recovery & Repair: Supporting Jewish Family Histories of the Holocaust in Britain, with Holocaust Centre North
Following our successful visit to Holocaust Centre North in November 2022, a team from the Wiener Holocaust Library is returning to Huddersfield to deliver another in-person event, aimed at helping people learn how best to look after their family history.
Vergiss mich nicht: Stolpersteine, The Stones of Remembrance
Online Lunchtime Talk: Refugee Family Stories in the Wiener Holocaust Library’s Collections
This talk will bring to life poignant refugee family stories from the Library’s rich collection. We will trace these families’ journeys through an exploration of historical documents and Survivors’ family archives. Don’t miss this enlightening opportunity to uncover the powerful narratives preserved within the Wiener Holocaust Library.
Book Talk & Performance: The Piano Player of Budapest – Unearthing a family’s melodies and memories
Join us for a Q&A with author Roxanne de Bastion to learn about her grandfather’s remarkable story of survival, as well as his music. Roxanne will be joined by her aunt Julie de Bastion, as they share thoughts on how trauma is passed down through generations and how shining a light on the past can be healing for future generations.
Recovery and Repair – Fate Unknown Exhibition Curator Talk & Drinks Reception
Join the co-curators of the Fate Unknown exhibition, Prof Dan Stone and Dr Christine Schmidt, who will explore the remarkable, little-known story of the search for the missing after the Holocaust. Fate Unknown draws upon The Wiener Holocaust Library’s family document collections and the International Tracing Service archive to illustrate the legacy of the ongoing search for missing victims.
Hybrid Book Talk: Anne Berest in Conversation with Rachel Seiffert, The Postcard
The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host this in conversation book talk event with author Anne Berest on her latest book, The Postcard as part of our Family Histories of the Holocaust series.
Book Talk: I Seek a Kind Person, Julian Borger
In 1938, Jewish families were scrambling to get out Vienna. In desperation, children were advertised in the Manchester Guardian. The right words in the right order could mean the difference between life and death. I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped them Escape the Holocaust is a powerful and personal investigative memoir of survival and loss, spanning generations within families shaped by the long shadow of history.
Daniel Finkelstein in conversation with Debórah Dwork at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York
This special event hosted in partnership with the Centre for Jewish History will see British journalist and politician, Daniel Finkelstein OBE, in conversation with Prof Debórah Dwork in celebration of Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin and the Miraculous Survival of My Family, Daniel Finkelstein’s remarkable new book. Learn more about the legacy of the Wiener Library and the tragic personal histories embedded in its founding.