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This workshop will explore new ways of thinking about archives, archival records, and other artifacts historians might use as primary sources to gain deeper insight into the history of migrants in transit and the knowledge they possessed, produced, transmitted, or lost.
Two concurrent exhibitions will launch on the 4 July 2023. Highlights From the Archives reveals some of the most significant objects from the archive that is one of the world’s […]
Dear Sir, In The Wiener Holocaust Library’s collections, we have a copy of Arithmetic for National Schools produced by the Nazi Gau of North and South Westphalia, published in 1941. […]
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 […]
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.
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 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 […]
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.
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.
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.
