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Screening: Filmmakers for the Prosecution, with Sandra Schulberg and Sharon Rosen Leib
The US Friends of The Wiener Holocaust Library will host an event featuring the screening of Filmmakers for the Prosecution, a documentary produced by Sandra Schulberg that retraces the steps of two men, Budd and Stuart Schulberg, tasked with gathering evidence for the Nuremberg Trials.
Stolpersteine laying ceremony and panel event on the Holocaust in the Netherlands
The world’s largest decentralised memorial art installation, the Stolperstein (stumbling stone) project has placed over 100,000 stones in 26 countries. The stones to be installed in Amsterdam commemorate Dr Margarete Wiener-Saulmann, Kurt Zielenziger, and Bernhard Krieg. All worked for The Wiener Holocaust Library’s predecessor organisation in Amsterdam, the Jewish Central Information Office, and the stones will be placed outside the offices of the JCIO on Jan van Eyckstraat.
The Gathering Storm
April 1927 Should it go on like this? I In picnic spots, huntsmen had to use firearms in self-defence against National Socialists. Unsuspecting Jewish passers-by were stabbed by National Socialists […]
Online Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture: The Wiener Library at 90, Ruth Wiener’s Story
A Holocaust Memorial day lecture with the University of York. This event is organised in response to the 2024 HMD theme of ‘Fragility of Freedom’.
The Gathering Storm
Berlin 13 November 1925 Cabarets, joke books, cheerful weekly papers and the “Jewish widow”: a serious word from Alfred Wiener We Jews are sensitive, our opponents claim; but even our […]
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.
The Gathering Storm
13th December 1923 The Flat Land On Sunday, 2 December, an unusually large number of representatives of the Bavarian branch of our Centralverein[1] met in the Nuremberg Community Hall under […]
Book Talk: In Search of Berlin: The Story of a Reinvented City, John Kampfner
Part of The Wiener Holocaust at Ninety exhibition event series. In Search of Berlin is an 800-year story, a dialogue between past and present; it is a new way of looking at this turbulent and beguiling city on its never-ending journey of reinvention.
Laurien Vastenhout: The Holocaust in the Netherlands: the ‘Dutch paradox’
In this talk, Dr Laurien Vastenhout presents an explanatory framework for this so-called ‘Dutch paradox’. In doing so, she not only provides an insight into how the Holocaust unfolded in the Netherlands, but also address some persistent misconceptions about the role of the Jewish community leadership – specifically, the Dutch Jewish Council – in the process of isolation and deportation of the Jews during the German occupation.
