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The Wiener Library
May 24, 2021, 6:31 pm
New exhibition details brutality of death marches
The Wiener Library explores how hundreds of thousands were forcibly evacuated, with many dying due to exhaustion, being shot for failing to keep up, or randomly murdered
‘The Avengers’ return to Vilna at the liberation of the city by the Red Army, July 1944
September 2, 2020, 3:10 pm
Exhibition unveils unknown resistance heroes during the Shoah
Fascinating accounts of Jewish resistance in the Holocaust, including by many women, are on display at the Wiener Library
By Stephen Oryszczuk
Jewish Lithuanian partisans’ group ‘The Avengers’ on their return to Vilna at the time of the liberation of the city by the Red Army, July 1944. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections
August 7, 2020, 11:50 am
Exhibition highlights Jewish resistance during the Holocaust
Display also looks at individual acts, from the secret diaries written by Ruth Wiener and Anne Frank, to the clandestine religious worship practiced in ghetto
By Francine Wolfisz
May 8, 2019, 12:39 pm
Wiener Library receives archive of late historian David Cesarani
Within the 1,404 volumes there are well known and  respected works on the Holocaust, including many in German.
By Jewish News Reporter
Pedestrians viewing a Jewish-owned store in Berlin damaged during Kristallnacht, November 10, 1938.
November 8, 2018, 12:19 pm
Wilfred Israel: The mystery philanthropist who helped save thousands
Roxzann Baker, a researcher at the Wiener Library, profiles a Jewish hero whose lifestyle masked a web of selfless acts
By Roxzann Baker
MOSCOW, RUSSIA - OCTOBER 28, 2018: Lit candles at a prayer service at the Moscow Jewish Community Centre for the victims of the 27 October 2018 shooting attack on a synagogue in Pittsburgh, United States. Mikhail Tereshchenko/TASS
November 7, 2018, 11:33 am
Shuls to mark 80 years since Kristallnacht by leaving lights on over Shabbat
United Synagogue-led campaign to mark violent pogrom in 1938 which saw 250 shuls set alight and 7,500 businesses destroyed by the Nazis
From the YIVO archive: Jewish socialists at a picnic around 1902
October 18, 2018, 12:29 pm
Hidden gem of Jewish world comes to London
Jenni Frazer meets the man in charge of a unique archive of ‘just about everything to do with the Jews of  Eastern Europe’
By Jenni Frazer
The Wiener Library poster which was defaced with anti-Israel graffiti
October 16, 2018, 2:38 pm
Poster for Kristallnacht exhibition defaced with ‘Free Palestine’ graffiti
An advertisement on the Underground promoting The Wiener Library's display is daubed with anti-Israel comments
More than 100 volunteers at Stanmore and Canons Park Synagogue came together to count 200,000 buttons for B's Buttons
April 24, 2018, 11:45 am
Synagogue collects 200,000 buttons for Holocaust project
Stanmore and Canons Park Synagogue volunteers held a count for B's Buttons, a project to create a memorial for the 1.5m Jewish children murdered in the Shoah
By Francine Wolfisz
B's Buttons is a project inspired by pupils at The Lakes School, Windermere, to create a memorial to the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered in the Shoah
April 11, 2018, 6:04 pm
An idea as bright as six million buttons
Francine Wolfisz finds out about B's Buttons, a student project to create a memorial to the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered in the Shoah
By Francine Wolfisz
Lieutenant Commander Alan Tyler, WRAF veteran Joyce Cesarani and RAF Warrant Officer Milton Brazil are all featured in Reminiscences: Veterans
November 8, 2017, 11:40 am
The daring dozen: British-Jewish veterans feature in photography exhibition
Photographer Mike Stone has created a series of portraits and interviews for his new project, Reminiscences: Veterans
By Francine Wolfisz
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