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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 […]

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. […]

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.

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