Refugee Week: 19 – 25 June 2023
Refugee Week is the world’s largest arts & culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of people seeking sanctuary. It’s been running in the UK since 1998 and is […]
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Refugees, Family Papers, and the Value of Shifting Our Perspective
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.
Joint Statement for Refugee Week
The Wiener Holocaust Library and Waging Peace This Refugee Week, The Wiener Holocaust Library remembers its refugee origins and insists that all refugees must be treated with dignity and respect. […]
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.
Online Workshop: Mapping Migration and the Challenges of Digital Curation
We are pleased to host an interdisciplinary, one-day virtual symposium that will examine themes related to the challenges of transnational digital curation and the sustainability of digital humanities resources in a new digital age for archives and heritage collections.
Online Event: Passion, Frustration and Bureaucracy: British Voluntary Efforts for Refugees from Nazism
In this online event, Becky Taylor will draw from her recent book, ‘Refugees in Twentieth-Century Britain. A History’, to explore the enormous efforts made by voluntary organisations to bring refugees from Nazism to Britain.
Due to the planned rail strike, this will now be an online only event. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Mapping Memories: Jewish Refugees to Britain, 1933-1945
This exhibition draws from the Library’s Refugee Map, an resource that traces refugee journeys using documents from our unique collections.
