Wiener Holocaust Library Archives

Wiener Holocaust Library

May 21, 2026, 3:15 pm

Wiener Library launches Britain’s first exhibition on Nazi camp slave labour

Survivor Eva Clarke and writer Jonathan Freedland highlight individual stories from brutal slave labour system

By Michelle Rosenberg

April 13, 2026, 11:01 am

Wiener Holocaust Library granted permission for building transformation

Go ahead from Camden Council for new learning area, gallery and roof garden for Grade II listed building

By Michelle Rosenberg

Dr Christine Schmidt (right) and Dr Barbara Warnock (left) at The Sir András Schiff - Fund Raising Concert of The Wiener Holocaust Library in London Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St John’s Wood on 5 3 2026. Photos taken by Adam Soller Photography©

March 10, 2026, 4:02 pm

Women co-directors make history by taking helm at Shoah archive

Dr Christine Schmidt and Dr Barbara Warnock appointed to lead Wiener Holocaust Library

By Michelle Rosenberg

(Screenshot via WebArchive, Shop.Olympics.com. Design by Jackie Hajdenberg)

February 16, 2026, 10:40 am

Olympics committee defends sale of T-shirt commemorating 1936 Nazi-era Games

Wiener Holocaust Library and International March of the Living have condemned the shirt, which has sold out

By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA)

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January 27, 2026, 12:31 pm

Suitcase #681: Rare Nazi ghetto drawings in London Holocaust archive

Cache of almost 681 artworks by Czech Jewish artist and playwright, Peter Kien, created secretly while he was imprisoned in Theresienstadt

By Michelle Rosenberg

Jewish refugee boys from Germany playing violin on train to the Netherlands, Wiener Holocaust Library collections.

December 10, 2025, 10:30 am

Wiener Holocaust Library smashes target in match-funding campaign

London-based library, one of the world's leading and most extensive archives on the Shoah, raises £67k

By Michelle Rosenberg

Soviet Union, 1941. Prisoners on the march from the front to the transit camps, photographer unknown, from a photo album of the Wehrmacht solder Dr Walter O. Courtesy of Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation/ Bergen-Belsen Memorial

March 25, 2025, 5:22 pm

Wiener Library exhibition to tell lesser-known stories from Belsen

Items on display in London to include bowls, smuggled diaries and photos of Soviet prisoners of war posted through the letterbox of a family living near the camp

By Michelle Rosenberg

January 27, 2025, 1:32 pm

Holocaust archive digitizes thousands of documents of Nazi horrors

Wiener Library's online portal provides free access to crucial documents, photos, transcripts, and testimonies including Nuremberg War Crimes Trials and the Battle of Cable Street

By Michelle Rosenberg

December 11, 2024, 11:10 am

Holocaust museum launches poetry collection inspired by one man’s family history

Historian Ben Barkow commemorates his family Shoah testimony with 20 heart-felt poems

By Michelle Rosenberg

Fred Kormis in his London studio, c. 1980s. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections

September 13, 2024, 3:04 pm

Wiener Holocaust Library set to open following major renovations

The world's oldest Holocaust studies library and research centre re-opens its doors on 20th September with exhibition on Jewish émigré sculptor, Fred Kormis

By Michelle Rosenberg

Library of Lost Books Exhibition, Wiener Library. Pic: Michelle Rosenberg, Thursday 6th June 2024

June 7, 2024, 11:59 am

Detectives welcome on historic quest to rediscover the Lost Library of Books

Wiener Library teams up with Leo Baeck Institute to search for collection of 60,000 precious books looted by Nazis from The Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin

By Michelle Rosenberg

Dr Toby Simpson, Luciana Berger, Tracy Ann Oberman, Jonathan Freedland (C) Blake Ezra Photography 2024

May 13, 2024, 3:12 pm

‘A vital resource for humanity’: more than £400k raised for UK’s Holocaust Archive

Lord Daniel Finkelstein and Tracy Ann Oberman guests at historic gala dinner for Wiener Holocaust Library

By Michelle Rosenberg

March 15, 2024, 12:58 pm

£240,000 funding grant to digitise the UK Holocaust archive

National Lottery Heritage Fund allocates support to Wiener Library to help bring vital evidence to a wider audience

By Michelle Rosenberg

November 2, 2023, 12:25 pm

‘Gaza’ daubed in red paint outside the Wiener Holocaust Library

Police and CST alerted after a graffiti attack outside the world's oldest Holocaust studies library and research centre.

By Richard Ferrer

September 14, 2023, 12:29 pm

Torah triumph! Wiener Holocaust library raises £2k for historic restoration

With 20 donations matched by generous funders, vital conservation work on 18th century Czech scroll will go ahead

By Michelle Rosenberg

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