See what’s coming up at the library, or you may be interested in past events.
Join us for the London book launch of the volume, Older Jews and the Holocaust, co-edited by The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Acting Co-Director, Dr Christine Schmidt, Dr Joanna Sliwa (Claims Conference), and Elizabeth Anthony (US Holocaust Memorial Museum) and published by Wayne State University Press in cooperation with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Join the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity for an online 'In Praise of Books' lecture about a landmark new book, Older Jews and the Holocaust.
Join the Armenian Institute for a book launch to mark and commemorate the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Nazan Maksudyan will be in conversation with Ayşe Parla about a new book, Lives in Fragments: Self-Narrative Sources and Biographical approaches to the Armenian Genocide.
Combining historical insight with guided listening, this event presents the rediscovery of suppressed symphonic heritage through the Reawakening Suppressed Music project and offers the opportunity to experience some of the orchestral treasures brought back to life. Dr Barbara Warnock, Dr Abigail Dolan and Dr Shelley Katz will share insights into the Library’s work on suppressed culture, the research and recordings produced by the project, and guide audiences through selected highlights from the recordings.
To mark the exhibition Learning in Exile, we will host a discussion on the Rohingya community, forcibly displaced from Myanmar and now living in Bangladesh.
Join us for the launch of a new exhibition, Hidden: Photography and displacement under the Khmer Rouge, a long-term collaborative project by photographer Charles Fox and Cambodian teacher and historian Prum Sisaphantha (Pantha).
Much relevant to issues of migration and democracy today, Richard Harper will be speaking about his book, Displacement, an exploration of the meaning and feeling of those being persecuted, exiled and displaced through the eyes of three eminent Jewish writers Zweig, Roth and Benjamin.
Join us to hear celebrated author, Joe Dunthorne, in conversation with Robert Eaglestone about his latest book. Children of Radium considers the long half-life of trauma, the weight of guilt and the ever-evasive nature of the truth.
Part of our 2026 Academic Seminar Series - Emotions in the Holocaust. As individual Holocaust survivors testify over the span of years or even decades, how do their narratives change – especially when they describe emotional experiences from the past? In Lisa Peschel's current book project, she follows the narratives of five Czech-Jewish survivors of the Theresienstadt Ghetto who stayed in Czechoslovakia after the war.
What happens when a school system is built to serve a dictatorship? This powerful and unsettling 30-minute documentary uncovers the hidden legacy of the National Political Education Institutes—known as Napolas—elite boarding schools founded by the Nazis to train the future leaders of the Third Reich. Through haunting first-person testimony, rare archival materials, and the expert insight of […]
This is the rescheduled 2025 Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture. Professor Mary Fulbrook will explore experiences of hiding and help during the Holocaust across Europe, including the German Reich itself, to highlight the significance of surrounding societies for the survival of Jews.
Building on Kateřina Králová’s book Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941–1946 (Brandeis University Press, 2025), in this event, the author, in conversation with Jay Prosser, Professor of Humanities at the University of Leeds, explores the meanings of “homecoming” for Jews from Greece through the lens of survivor testimony.
