Testifying to the Truth: An Event Series
The Wiener Holocaust Library is pleased to host a series of workshops and other events designed to engage a variety of researchers, students, faculty, educators and other audiences with our […]
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WHL Director expresses dismay over Ken Loach event
The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Director, Dr Toby Simpson writes to St Peter’s College expressing dismay over Ken Loach event.
Persecution of gay people in Nazi Germany
To mark LGBTQ+ History Month, Dr Barbara Warnock looks at the persecution faced by gay people in Nazi Germany, and some of the documents in The Wiener Holocaust Library’s International Tracing Service digital archive that contain evidence about their experiences.
Konin: Shtetl or Shtot?
This is the question that Theo Richmond invariably puts to his interviewees, the former Jewish inhabitants of Konin, and the consensus seems to be that they regarded Konin as a […]
Statement on the suing of Holocaust historians in Poland
The Wiener Holocaust Library expresses great concern, along with IHRA, Yad Vashem, and other organisations, about litigation being used to intimidate scholars of the Holocaust in Poland.
Holocaust Memorial Day 2021
On Friday 22nd January we were honoured to host a moving and reflective virtual commemoration for Holocaust Memorial Day 2021.
Welcome to our new site!
The Wiener Holocaust Library has launched a new website! We are delighted to have this new resource for our friends, supporters and new visitors to access.
Testifying to the Truth – New digital resource launching January 2021
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 […]
Statement condemning the attack on the US Capitol
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 […]
Margarethe’s Story
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 […]
