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The Wiener Holocaust Library’s new digital resource, Testifying to the Truth, will soon be freely accessible online. This online database shares eyewitness accounts from the Holocaust, many of which have never […]
We were appalled to witness Trump supporters attacking the US Congress this week. Though these events were shocking, they were sadly predictable. The President of the United States not only […]
While researching and writing The Holocaust Explained for The Wiener Holocaust Library over the past two and a half years, I have been lucky enough to explore hundreds of the […]
The Wiener Holocaust Library is embarking on an exciting new partnership with the University of Huddersfield, the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London, and the Holocaust Exhibition […]
This blog post was written by Elise Bath (Senior International Tracing Service Archive Researcher) and Roxzann Baker (The Holocaust Explained Project Coordinator) as part of Black History Month 2020. Black […]
The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Director, Dr Toby Simpson, wrote to The Times in response to Oliver Moody’s article Porajmos: the Nazi genocide forgotten by the world (29 September 2020). We were pleased […]
In 1943, Mirjam Wiener, the daughter of Dr Alfred Wiener, founder of The Wiener Holocaust Library, was deported from Amsterdam to Westerbork, where she spent seven months before being deported […]
We are delighted to announce that the Library can now provide free access to Gale’s recently released digital primary sources project Refugees, Relief and Resettlement: Forced Migration and World War […]
In 2020, The Wiener Holocaust Library was awarded a generous grant from Arts Council England‘s Designated Development Funding towards improving and access to our collections and re-developing our online resource Refugee […]
We are delighted to learn that our former Director Ben Barkow, has been awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for all his […]
