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The UK National Node of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure is pleased to announce the first call for applications to its EHRI-UK National Research Fellowship Programme (NRFP).
As part of a new project to commemorate and honour those who opposed Nazism in Germany, Alfred Wiener is now included in a raft of new street names in Stuttgart. They replace street and square names which previously celebrated the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938. Our Director, Dr Toby Simpson, reflects on the commemorations and the legacy of our founder.
Our collections volunteer, Alan, explores materials in our archive related to cycling for a Volunteers Week blog.
Last night we welcomed special guests to the launch of our latest exhibition, Traces of Belsen, with a chance to see this ground-breaking project first hand.
On 5 and 6 December 2024, The Wiener Holocaust Library hosted a workshop aimed at doctoral and early-career scholars to explore older people’s daily lives, deaths, and movements during the Holocaust. This workshop built upon the work that has been done by Christine Schmidt, Elizabeth Anthony, and Joanna Sliwa for their upcoming edited volume, Older Jews and the Holocaust (Wayne State University Press, 2026).
A powerful new exhibition of the award-winning photography of three Rohingya refugee artists and genocide survivors from Myanmar will debut at the Wiener Holocaust Library this month.
To mark International Holocaust Memorial Day, the Wiener Holocaust Library, one of the largest Nazi-era archives in the world, has launched a new online portal putting over a quarter of a million pages of evidence of the Holocaust and those who resisted it at the hands of researchers worldwide.
On the eve of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), of which the Wiener Holocaust Library is a proud founding member, will be inaugurated as a permanent European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) during a ceremony at the Polin Museum in Warsaw.
To mark Holocaust Memorial Day we’re delighted to be able to present an exclusive screening of the award-winning documentary film, Getting Away With Murder(s), to audiences in the UK, Ireland and North America.
We are delighted that our Director Toby Simpson, will be awarded an OBE in this year’s New Years Honours. This prestigious award recognises his contribution to Holocaust memory through his leadership of the Library.
