The Wiener Holocaust Library launches new educational maps to teach the Holocaust
The Wiener Library has finalised a year-long project to create a series of new educational maps to teach the Holocaust, accessible now via The Holocaust Explained.
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The Big Give 2024: Support our Holocaust-era family history research
This year’s Big Give Christmas Challenge is helping us to raise funds for one of the most impactful aspects of the Library’s work – our International Tracing Service family history research.
The Library’s new gallery opens with the launch of a ground-breaking exhibition
Last night we were delighted to launch our latest exhibition, opening our newly renovated and modernised Ernst and Thilde Fraenkel Exhibition Gallery. It was a pleasure to welcome so many friends and supporters of the Library to this special event, and to reopen our amazing new space.
Our response to unprecedented violence across the country
We condemn the violence that we have witnessed across the country since 29 July, including racist rioting, Islamophobia, antisemitism, and hatred against those who have fled persecution to our country. […]
The Wiener Holocaust Library participates in the launch of a new EHRI-UK initiative
The Wiener Holocaust Library is excited to announce its participation as a key founding partner of the new UK Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI-UK).
Marking 10 years since the Yezidi Genocide: Testimonies of Yezidi survivors added to our collection
This week, to mark the ten year anniversary of the genocide against the Yezidis, 12 testimonies from female survivors of these atrocities were deposited in our collection.
Reawakening Suppressed Music: Reviving suppressed orchestral music through recordings and performances
Reawakening Suppressed Music is a three-year project dedicated to recording and sharing some of the silenced symphonic works written by Jewish composers who suffered under the Nazis, as well as […]
Older Jews and the Holocaust: A public symposium at USHMM
We’re pleased to announce a public symposium at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, co-convened by USHMM, The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Conference on Jewish material Claims against Germany.
South Asian Heritage Month: The Library’s collections and British Asian antifascism
The Wiener Holocaust Library’s archive contain a wealth of resources which highlight the fight of British Asians against fascism, including collections on post-war antifascism and the development of the far right in Britain.
Disruption and partial closure notice: Exhibition space refurbishment summer 2024
Our exhibition space is being refurbished this summer in an exciting upgrade to our outreach and engagement programme. Please take note of disruption to readers and partial closure of the Library.
