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Online Book Talk – A Nation of Refugees: Russia’s Jews in WWI, with Polly Zavadivker

The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United Kingdom

A Nation of Refugees explores how World War I transformed the lives of East European Jews in ways that were second only to the Holocaust in their magnitude. It examines the contradictory forces that emerged within a collapsing empire at war, including state violence and forced migration, as well as the transformation of Russia’s Jewish civil society through an empire-wide humanitarian campaign to rescue the “nation of refugees,” whose plight embodied that of the Jewish nation itself.

Book Talk: The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz, with Anne Sebba and Lord Daniel Finkelstein

The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United Kingdom

In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. In The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz Anne Sebba traces these tangled questions of deep moral complexity with sensitivity and care, drawing on meticulous archival research and exclusive first-hand accounts to tell the full and astonishing story of the orchestra, its members and the response of other prisoners for the first time.

Public lecture and musical performance: Revealing suppressed culture – Lost histories in the archives of The Wiener Holocaust Library

The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United Kingdom

An event hosted with the Reawakening Suppressed Music project. Dr Barbara Warnock will explore some of the traces and records of culture suppressed during the Nazi era that are contained in the Library’s extensive archives. Conductor Shelley Katz joined by soprano Adaya Peled will present orchestral works by Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, Robert (Bob) Hanf, Robert Kahn and Hans Krieg.

Hybrid Book Talk: Vanishing Vienna with Frances Tanzer

The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United Kingdom

In Vanishing Vienna historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German annexation through the early 1960s. Join us for the latest event in our new Academic Books series.

Hybrid Exhibition Talk – “I hope soon to get into a hospital”: Recruiting Jewish refugees into the British nursing profession, with Dr Jane Brooks

The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United Kingdom

Dr Jane Brooks will discuss the recruitment of Jewish refugee nurses to the UK, mapping the challenges and sometimes kindnesses many of these young women faced in trying to gain a place to train as a nurse and their ongoing bravery and determination to create a space of professional independence for themselves.

Exhibition event: Photography and Resistance, with Janina Struk

The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United Kingdom

Held as part of the Traces of Belsen Exhibition Event series. Struk’s exploration demonstrates not only the manifold reasons for photographing the crimes committed by the Nazis, but also the ways the images have – and continue to be – interpreted. She questions whether the ways in which we have engaged with them has honoured those who risked their lives to take and secure them.

Exhibition Talk: Belsen exchange camp with Professor Rainer Schulze

The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United Kingdom

Held as part of the Traces of Belsen Exhibition Event series. Join us for a talk by Professor Rainer Schulze who will discuss this lesser-known aspect of Belsen camps, exploring how many 'exchanges' actually took place, and why there were not more, including a focus on the role of Britain and the US.

Book Talk: The Scattered Library with Hans Soetaert

The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United Kingdom

As part of its New Academic Book Series, The Wiener Holocaust Library is pleased to announce a lecture with Hans Soetaert about his new book, The Scattered Library: The Various Fates of the Remnants of Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute of Sexual Science Collection in France and Czechoslovakia, 1932–1942.

Exhibition event: Belsen in British Memory with Sue Vice and Dan Stone

The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United Kingdom

Held as part of the Traces of Belsen exhibition event series. We welcome Sue Vice and Dan Stone in conversation about Bergen-Belsen’s importance in British Holocaust awareness. Vice and Stone will describe the significance that the liberation of Bergen-Belsen holds in British public awareness, such as in schools, memorials, museums, and films.

Heritage Fund The Association of Jewish Refugees Federal Foreign Office

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