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This month our acclaimed travelling exhibition, A Thousand Kisses, is being displayed at Lowestoft Railway Station to mark the arrival of 500 rescued children in the town exactly 86 years ago, on 12 December 1938.
We’re delighted to announce that this week we exceeded our ambitious fundraising target during the Big Give’s December match-funded campaign, raising over £67,000 to support our vital work!
This year we are taking part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge, a matched fundraising campaign which will help us to continue our vital work.
Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust, launched at the Library this week with an event for special guests. It is now open to the public until 30 April 2026.
Following the departure of Dr Toby Simpson as Director of The Wiener Holocaust Library in early December, we are delighted to announce that Dr Christine Schmidt and Dr Barbara Warnock will take over the leadership of the Library as interim Co-Directors.
This month we share the news that our Director, Dr Toby Simpson OBE, will be leaving the Library at the end of the year to start an exciting new role at Imperial War Museum North.
This month we hosted the annual ceremony of the Heroes of the Holocaust award, which recognises British citizens who helped rescue Jews and others during the Second World War. Since 2010 there have been 45 recipients of the award. This year the medal was awarded to Hans and Eva Reichmann.
Jee Xian Yu reflects on his year-long placement at the Wiener Holocaust Library as part of our collaboration with EHRI-UK.
In the past decade scholarship on the Holocaust has been influenced by a spatial turn in the humanities, asking what a spatial lens can reveal about experiences of persecution. We are pleased to announce a new seminar series, ‘Spatial Histories of the Holocaust’, which will run throughout the 2025/2026 academic year.
This year we launched a groundbreaking new digital archive, Wiener Digital Collections, putting significant collections from our unique archive at the hands of researchers worldwide. For the past 8 months we have continued to add new collections to the site, now totalling 215,000 pages of crucial evidence from the Holocaust and the Nazi era.
