Current and upcoming exhibitions
Ano ćućipe e lavengo: In the Silence of Words
This exhibition was co-produced by our Community Curators Lila Loisse, Robert Czibi and Marija Enzer as part of our Roma and Sinti Community Curator’s Programme in partnership with the Fortunoff Archives. Alongside archival documents from the Wiener Holocaust Library’s unique collections, this exhibition will explore the role language played in the persecution of the Roma community.
Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust
This exhibition explores the choices and humanity of older Jews in the face of persecution, flight and survival. Through rare photographs, personal stories and objects, the exhibition challenges our perceptions of age, vulnerability and agency, offering a vital new lens on the Holocaust.
Upcoming events
Afternoon Talk: In Search of Amnesia Artist Talk with Barry Falk
In Search of Amnesia is a documentary project looking into the Jewish narrative in Poland and Ukraine. Retracing the history of the Jewish narrative in Eastern Europe, Falk traced both his own personal family history and the collective loss.
Book Talk: Ausländer by Michael Moritz, in conversation with Daniel Finkelstein
Join us for an in-person talk with Michael Moritz about his latest book, Ausländer. Michael will be in conversation with Lord Daniel Finkelstein
Intergenerational workshop and Sunday exhibition open day
Following this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day theme ‘Bridging Generations’ and the Library’s current exhibition Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust, we welcome cross generational attendance to inspire conversation around how the Holocaust and Holocaust memory affects generations differently.
Book Launch and Special Collection Exhibition – Holocaust Letters: Methodologies, Cases and Reflections and the William Kaczynski Collection
Join us for the launch of a new edited collection Holocaust Letters: Methodologies, Cases and Reflections (Bloomsbury) edited by Clara Dijkstra, Charlie Knight, Sandra Lipner, and Christine Schmidt, which features groundbreaking new research into the holdings of the Library’s archive. The event will also feature a reception and a special exhibition of the William Kaczynski Collection.
Book Talk – In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union
The short fiction collected in In the Shadow of the Holocaust, translated by Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav, recovers a range of compelling voices that had been scarcely known or translated, with particular emphasis on the work of women writers. In this talk, Sasha Senderovich will discuss how these works, and the act of translating them, open new ways of thinking about Holocaust literature, Soviet Jewish history, and the long, uneven afterlives of mass violence.
