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We need your continued support to catalogue, digitise and preserve our valuable archive to ensure that accurate, authentic information about the Holocaust is accessible worldwide.
Over 5-years, we will digitise a third of our collection of over 2 million items.
All donations received via Big Give until next Tuesday 6th December will be matched, meaning double the impact for the Library!
Find out more and donate:
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We’re excited to announce that we’ll be taking part in the Big Give 2022 Christmas Challenge! Every donation made to our campaign from 29th November - 6th December will be doubled! Save the date!
We are pleased to announce The Wiener Holocaust Library will once again be participating in the Big Give Christmas Challenge, the UK’s largest online match funding campaign.
Last year was a huge success for us, enabling us to raise vital funds during a challenging time.
This year we aim to raise £30,000 towards the digitisation and preservation of the Library's unique archive. You can find out why reaching this goal is so important through our campaign page.
All donations we receive during the campaign will be doubled through pledged funds, meaning your donation will have twice the impact for the Library.
Please save the dates of the campaign in your diary, 12pm 29 November to 12pm 6 December!
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Join us this evening at Gresham College for the Third Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture.
It promises to be a fascinating evening!
Today at the Library we welcome to film important items from our collection.
The footage will be used in a short film about the Library’s work as part of the NFTS’s Bridge to Industry scheme. We can’t wait to see the final films!
"The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating"
This week in 1945, the Nuremberg Trials began.
21 high-ranking N**is were charged with war crimes, and the newly elaborated concept of crimes against humanity and genocide. It was the first trial of its kind.
Learn more about post-war trials at and check out the Library's War Crime Trials Subject Guide to find out more about the materials we hold in our collection.
There are still spaces available to attend our forthcoming Family History Research workshop in next week!
This workshop will help you take the first steps in conducting your own family research using the International Tracing Service digital archive, including using sources freely available online.
Join our Senior ITS Archive Team Manager, Elise Bath and ITS Researcher Ian Rich at Leeds Libraries as they demonstrate the uses of this important archive.
The workshop will also feature family research support services available from Leeds-based partner organisations. Bring along your family trees and research questions!
Participants will also have the chance to sign up for one-on-one consultations with The Wiener Holocaust Library’s expert researchers.
The workshop is free but space is limited, so please sign up via our website...
https://buff.ly/3AegsVd
Next week our International Tracing Service team are in !
On 24th November, join the co-curators of the Fate Unknown exhibition, Prof Dan Stone and Dr Christine Schmidt, who will explore the remarkable, little-known story of the search for the missing after the Holocaust.
Fate Unknown draws upon The Wiener Holocaust Library’s family document collections and the International Tracing Service archive to illustrate the legacy of the ongoing search for missing victims. They will be joined by Professor Stuart Taberner (Director of the Horizons Institute, University of Leeds) where they will discuss the development of the exhibition and reflect on some of the issues and themes it highlights.
This event is free but space is limited. Please register online via our website...
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Next week, join us at Holocaust Centre North for a fascinating series of events...
Our free family history research workshop will help you take the first steps in conducting your own research using the International Tracing Service Digital Archive, including how to make use of sources freely available online.
Our Senior ITS Archive Team Manager will explain how the archive can be used to help in family research and academic work.
Holocaust Centre North Archivist, Hari Jonkers, will also showcase examples of how the ITS archive can support those searching for information about survivors who resettled in the North of England.
This event is free but space is limited, so please register via our website...
https://buff.ly/3E45GSQ
Join us next week at Holocaust Centre North for an evening drinks reception featuring talks from co-curators Professor Dan Stone and Dr Christine Schmidt, and the final opportunity to view their ‘Fate Unknown’ travelling exhibition
We welcome historians, archivists, family historians, heritage practitioners, and anyone interested in Jewish and Holocaust history and its aftermath.
This event is free, but space is limited, so please sign up via our website!
https://buff.ly/3hGd27q
Join us next week at Holocaust Centre North for our latest family history research workshop.
This workshop will help you take the first steps in conducting your own research using the ITS Digital Archive.
Our ITS Archive Team Manager will explain how the archive can be used to help in family research and academic work. Holocaust Centre North Archivist, Hari Jonkers, will also showcase how the archive can help those searching for information about survivors who resettled in the North of England.
Coming along to the workshop is free but spaces are limited, so make sure you sign up via our website!
Our latest exhibition is now on display and can be visited at the Library Monday - Friday, 10am - 5pm.
The Vienna Model of Radicalisation: Austria and the Shoah, highlights Vienna’s central role in the intensification of antisemitic policy in the N**i state during the Holocaust.
After Germany’s annexation of Austria during the Anschluss in March 1938, Vienna became a testing ground and motor for the N**i persecution of Jews across the German Reich.
In early 1941, the N**is decided that Vienna would be the first city to be made ‘free of Jews’.
Keep an eye on our feed to see visual highlights from the exhibition, and we look forward to welcoming you to the Library to see this fascinating display in person...
📷15th March 1938, an SS cordon in front of an enthusiastic crowd in Vienna’s city centre © Austrian National Library, Vienna
📷 Images of humiliation: a Jewish woman is forced to scrub pro-Austria slogans off the street with a brush. This type of humiliation was cynically labelled a ‘scrubbing crew’. March 1938, Novaragasse/corner of Weintraubengasse, Vienna 2 © Austrian National Library, Vienna
https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/exhibition/the-vienna-model-of-radicalisation-austria-and-the-shoah/