‘There was a time…’: Jewish Family Photographs Before 1939
Family photographs have often been overlooked as historical or artistic objects in their own right. This exhibition asks visitors to reconsider their significance.
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Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust
This Reading Room exhibition draws upon historical documents in the archives of The Wiener Holocaust Library to focus on the theme of the renewal of Jewish communities after the Holocaust.
Hybrid Talk: Rebuilding Lives? Displaced Persons in the post-war period
Elise Bath, ITS Archive Team Manager at The Wiener Holocaust Library, will explore some of the documents in the Library’s collections that give an insight into the lives of Holocaust survivors in the immediate post-war period.
In the Third Reich, the Private was Political: The Case for Cultural Family Histories
With the slogan, ‘the private is political’, second-wave feminists in the late 1960s drew attention to the inescapable influence of political structures on personal experiences – especially those of women.
Film Screening – Proof of Identity
The Library is delighted to be hosting the UK premiere of Mikołaj Grynberg’s documentary film, Proof of Identity, to be followed by Q & A with the director.
Opening up the Library’s Family Collections
The Library’s Assistant Curator reflects on the projects and archival work accomplished through Arts Council England funding between 2020 and 2022.
The Levy Family Papers
The Library’s Photo Archivist explores a recently catalogued and digitised Family Papers collection, supported by Arts Council England funding.
The Rosenberg Family Papers
The Library’s Senior Archivist explores a recently catalogued and digitised Family Papers collection, supported by Arts Council England funding.
The Gordon Family Papers
The Library’s Project Archivist explores a recently catalogued and digitised Family Papers collection, supported by Arts Council England funding.
Fate Unknown: The Search for the Missing after the Holocaust
This exhibition examines the remarkable history of the search for the missing after the Holocaust and the impact today of fates that remain unknown.
