PRESS RELEASE: Catrine Val: Living Memory
Photographic Exhibition and Slideshow 19–23 June 2023, Curated by Jana Riedel and Matthew Shaul Produced during the summer of 2020, the Living Memory project showcases artist Catrine Val’s poignant and […]
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The Wiener Holocaust Library at 90: Spotlight on Holocaust Education
The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Education Programme, designed to support schools, colleges, universities, students and teachers, has evolved immeasurably over the last decade. Read more about how the programme has developed.
Symposium Report : New Directions in the Study of the Roma Genocide at The Wiener Holocaust Library
Day 1: May 10th 2023 The symposium opened with a first panel on Microhistory, with a presentation by Grégoire Cousin, titled ‘The fate of the Roma deported to Suha-Balca farm: […]
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 […]
The Wiener Holocaust Library at 90: Spotlight on Digitisation
As we mark our 90th anniversary, we recognise that although the Library is an institution rooted in the past, we remain oriented towards the future. In the spirit of modernisation, in the 2020s the Library has embarked on a major digitisation project in order to conserve, and make even more accessible, our unique collections.
Two new short films spotlight the Wiener Holocaust Library’s unique collections
To mark the 90th Anniversary of the establishment of the Library’s predecessor organisation in Amsterdam, we worked with the National Film and Television School’s Bridge to Industry scheme to commission two short films highlighting our important work and unique collections.
PRESS RELEASE: London archive marks 90 years of preserving evidence of the Holocaust
This year, the library that was created by a German Jew who predicted the horrors of the Holocaust is marking its 90th anniversary. The Wiener Holocaust Library was established in Amsterdam in 1934, helped the Allies during the Second World War and continues to collect and preserve evidence of the crimes of genocide today.
The Wiener Holocaust Library at 90: Our Collections in 2023
Our collections are growing at the fastest rate in our 90-year history. Find out more about the exciting position of our archive in 2023.
We Don’t Drink the Sunscreen: The fallibility of electronic translation
Nicola Keller discusses the process of translating family Holocaust letters from Hungarian to English, and what she discovers along the way.
‘I am sitting on a dead branch’: Dr Hedwig Leibetseder’s letters from Lichtenburg
In 1936, Dr Hedwig Leibetseder (née Abranowicz 1900-1989) jumped from the rear window on the 5th floor of no. 14 Düsseldorfer Strasse in Berlin. She had just travelled to Prague to retrieve a microphotography copy of the indictment of the first trial against Neu Beginnen, the anti-Nazi resistance group to which she belonged, but the Gestapo were lying in wait to seize the document upon her return.
