Subject Guides

The Library has created a number of guides to help users navigate our collections.

Each guide introduces the material available at the Library on specific subjects, as well as online resources and sources of further information. For further information or guidance please contact the Collections Team.

Subject Guide / Kindertransport

Between 1938 and 1939 some 10,000 children were sent without their parents from Nazi Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia to safety in Britain. This rescue movement became known as the Kindertransport.

Black and white photograph of war trials

Subject Guide / War Crime Trials and Perpetrators

Our holdings on war crime trials largely pertain to those crimes committed by the Nazis and their allies during the Second World War. We also hold a small but growing section on war crime trials relating to other genocides.

An issue of The Wiener Library Bulletin, published in November 1947.

Subject Guide / Press Cuttings

We hold an extensive collection of press cuttings for the years between 1933 and 2010 on the topic of the Holocaust, gathered from a wide variety of publications and browsable by subject.