Jewish News: ‘Help, help, help…’ Heartbreaking Holocaust letters on display for first time
Remarkable exhibition entitled ‘Holocaust Letters’ at the Wiener Holocaust Library demonstrates how “the history of the Shoah is still being written”.
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iNews: Secret letters from the Holocaust reveal defiance in the midst of chaos: ‘Be brave and cope’
Correspondence shows how families exchanged messages across borders, in the midst of destruction – and reveals how much they understood about the genocide unfolding Etan Smallman At first glance, the […]
BBC World Service: ‘Forgotten Holocaust’: Gypsies fight for the memory of victims of Nazism
Swaminathan Natarajan “Why did they want to kill us? Why did they kill us?” asks Hinta Gheorghe, an 83-year-old Roma and Holocaust survivor. At the age of two, during World […]
New exhibition at UNESCO commemorates Jewish life before the Holocaust
This month the Library’s exhibition, ‘There Was a Time’: Jewish Family Photographs before 1939, will be restaged in Paris at UNESCO’s global headquarters.
Our statement regarding high-profile antisemitism and Holocaust denial
The Wiener Holocaust Library has always stood firmly against Holocaust denial and distortion. We are the world’s oldest archive dedicated to the open study of the overwhelming documentary record of the Holocaust and we work hard to use our vast and unique collections to put the past at the service of the future.
Refugees, Family Papers, and the Value of Shifting Our Perspective
On 23 November Professor Marion Kaplan delivered a fascinating talk at the Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture, hosted by Gresham College in London. She spoke to a full and captivated audience on the subject of ‘Lives in Limbo: Jewish Refugees in Portugal, 1940-1945’.
Professor Kaplan vividly described the experiences of the tens of thousands of Jews who pursued this perilous but exceptional escape route out of Nazi-occupied Europe at the height of the Second World War and the Holocaust.
Third Annual Alfred Wiener Lecture: Jewish Lives in Limbo
On Wednesday 23 November the Library hosted the Third Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture at Gresham College. We were delighted that so many attended in-person or tuned in to watch this lecture.
Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution
This conference, postponed from 2021, follows six successful conferences, which took place at Imperial War Museum London in 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015 and at Birkbeck, University of London and The Wiener Holocaust Library in 2018. It builds on areas previously investigated, and also opens up new fields of academic enquiry.
The Library is taking part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge
The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2022, the UK’s largest online match funding campaign, is now live and we are pleased to be participating once again. This year we aim to raise £30,000 towards the digitisation and preservation of the Library’s unique archive.
Call for Papers: Letter Writing in Holocaust Studies
This one-day PGR/ ECR Workshop at the Wiener Holocaust Library will take place on the 24 May 2023.
