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.
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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 […]
Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership
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 […]
The Persecution of Black People in the Nazi Camp System
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 calls for judicious use of evidence in the fight against anti-Gypsyism
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 […]
Remembering Mirjam Wiener
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 […]
