The Wiener Holocaust Library
@wienerlibrary.bsky.social
The world's oldest Holocaust archive and Britain's largest collection on the Nazi era.
Website: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org
Digital Archive: www.whlcollections.org
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Website: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org
Digital Archive: www.whlcollections.org
Donate: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/support-our-work/donate/
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📢 Launching next week...
Our latest @hgrporg.bsky.social exhibition uncovers the untold story of elderly Jews during and after the Holocaust through the eyes of people for whom 1945 often marked the end of their long lives.
Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust is on display until April 2026
Our latest @hgrporg.bsky.social exhibition uncovers the untold story of elderly Jews during and after the Holocaust through the eyes of people for whom 1945 often marked the end of their long lives.
Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust is on display until April 2026
The Theresienstadt Ghetto was established on this day in 1941.
Theresienstadt was a ghetto, but also had features of a transit camp. It was used as a temporary holding place for Jews on their way to camps further east...
📸 Photos of the arrival of Jews at Theresienstadt, taken by B. Birnbach
Theresienstadt was a ghetto, but also had features of a transit camp. It was used as a temporary holding place for Jews on their way to camps further east...
📸 Photos of the arrival of Jews at Theresienstadt, taken by B. Birnbach
November 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The Theresienstadt Ghetto was established on this day in 1941.
Theresienstadt was a ghetto, but also had features of a transit camp. It was used as a temporary holding place for Jews on their way to camps further east...
📸 Photos of the arrival of Jews at Theresienstadt, taken by B. Birnbach
Theresienstadt was a ghetto, but also had features of a transit camp. It was used as a temporary holding place for Jews on their way to camps further east...
📸 Photos of the arrival of Jews at Theresienstadt, taken by B. Birnbach
Next week we’re taking part in the Big Give Christmas Fundraising Challenge.
Every donation we receive through the Big Give from 2 - 9 December will be matched, meaning your generosity will have double the impact on our vital work.
Find out more: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/2025/11/20/t...
Every donation we receive through the Big Give from 2 - 9 December will be matched, meaning your generosity will have double the impact on our vital work.
Find out more: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/2025/11/20/t...
The Big Give 2025: Support our vital work in these challenging times - The Wiener Holocaust Library
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.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Next week we’re taking part in the Big Give Christmas Fundraising Challenge.
Every donation we receive through the Big Give from 2 - 9 December will be matched, meaning your generosity will have double the impact on our vital work.
Find out more: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/2025/11/20/t...
Every donation we receive through the Big Give from 2 - 9 December will be matched, meaning your generosity will have double the impact on our vital work.
Find out more: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/2025/11/20/t...
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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…
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November 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Did you know we offer free visits for school, college, and university groups to visit our archive and learn from the thousands of important documents it holds?
Last year we undertook 40 educational visits, reaching 1,328 students and 142 teachers
Find out more:
Last year we undertook 40 educational visits, reaching 1,328 students and 142 teachers
Find out more:
Learn - The Wiener Holocaust Library
We have an active outreach programme for the public, for schools, and for scholars.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Did you know we offer free visits for school, college, and university groups to visit our archive and learn from the thousands of important documents it holds?
Last year we undertook 40 educational visits, reaching 1,328 students and 142 teachers
Find out more:
Last year we undertook 40 educational visits, reaching 1,328 students and 142 teachers
Find out more:
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With the first issue of The Wiener Library Bulletin, published in 1946, The Wiener Library launched itself as a research institute open to the wider public. The bulletin covered topics from war crime trials to the resurgence of extreme groups, and the development of Holocaust historiography...
November 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
With the first issue of The Wiener Library Bulletin, published in 1946, The Wiener Library launched itself as a research institute open to the wider public. The bulletin covered topics from war crime trials to the resurgence of extreme groups, and the development of Holocaust historiography...
With the first issue of The Wiener Library Bulletin, published in 1946, The Wiener Library launched itself as a research institute open to the wider public. The bulletin covered topics from war crime trials to the resurgence of extreme groups, and the development of Holocaust historiography...
November 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
With the first issue of The Wiener Library Bulletin, published in 1946, The Wiener Library launched itself as a research institute open to the wider public. The bulletin covered topics from war crime trials to the resurgence of extreme groups, and the development of Holocaust historiography...
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Our PhD and a Cup of Tea series is back!
For our next event in the series Ruthie Kaplan will discuss her research following the spatial conduct of Łódź’s Jewish middle—and upper-class in the interwar period.
Open for booking now:
For our next event in the series Ruthie Kaplan will discuss her research following the spatial conduct of Łódź’s Jewish middle—and upper-class in the interwar period.
Open for booking now:
PhD and a Cup of Tea - Spatial Research of Łódź's Jewish Middle and Upper-Class Before the Holocaust - The Wiener Holocaust Library
Part of our PhD and a Cup of Tea series of academic seminars. Ruthie Kaplan will discuss her research exploring the spatial conduct of Łódź's Jewish middle—and upper-class in the interwar period.
buff.ly
November 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Our PhD and a Cup of Tea series is back!
For our next event in the series Ruthie Kaplan will discuss her research following the spatial conduct of Łódź’s Jewish middle—and upper-class in the interwar period.
Open for booking now:
For our next event in the series Ruthie Kaplan will discuss her research following the spatial conduct of Łódź’s Jewish middle—and upper-class in the interwar period.
Open for booking now:
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Looking for accurate, truthful information about various aspects of the history of the Holocaust?
We're constantly adding new videos to our YouTube channel drawing on our unique archive collections, academic talks and lectures, and our expertly curated exhibitions.
Subscribe now:
We're constantly adding new videos to our YouTube channel drawing on our unique archive collections, academic talks and lectures, and our expertly curated exhibitions.
Subscribe now:
The Wiener Holocaust Library
The Wiener Library is one of the world's leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust and Nazi era. Formed in 1933, the Library's unique collection of over one million items includes…
buff.ly
November 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Looking for accurate, truthful information about various aspects of the history of the Holocaust?
We're constantly adding new videos to our YouTube channel drawing on our unique archive collections, academic talks and lectures, and our expertly curated exhibitions.
Subscribe now:
We're constantly adding new videos to our YouTube channel drawing on our unique archive collections, academic talks and lectures, and our expertly curated exhibitions.
Subscribe now:
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In November 1945, twenty-four prominent members of Nazi Germany, who had been captured by the Allies at the end of the war, were prosecuted by the International Military Tribunal (IMT) for the crimes they planned and committed throughout the Second World War, including the Holocaust...
November 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM
In November 1945, twenty-four prominent members of Nazi Germany, who had been captured by the Allies at the end of the war, were prosecuted by the International Military Tribunal (IMT) for the crimes they planned and committed throughout the Second World War, including the Holocaust...
Did you know we offer free visits for school, college, and university groups to visit our archive and learn from the thousands of important documents it holds?
Last year we undertook 40 educational visits, reaching 1,328 students and 142 teachers
Find out more:
Last year we undertook 40 educational visits, reaching 1,328 students and 142 teachers
Find out more:
Learn - The Wiener Holocaust Library
We have an active outreach programme for the public, for schools, and for scholars.
buff.ly
November 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Did you know we offer free visits for school, college, and university groups to visit our archive and learn from the thousands of important documents it holds?
Last year we undertook 40 educational visits, reaching 1,328 students and 142 teachers
Find out more:
Last year we undertook 40 educational visits, reaching 1,328 students and 142 teachers
Find out more:
Every month we collate exciting news and send it directly to your inbox. including information around new acquisitions, forthcoming exhibitions and events
We have been keeping up to date with our friends through a newsletter or bulletin throughout our 90 year history
Subscribe:
We have been keeping up to date with our friends through a newsletter or bulletin throughout our 90 year history
Subscribe:
Home - The Wiener Holocaust Library
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…
buff.ly
November 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Every month we collate exciting news and send it directly to your inbox. including information around new acquisitions, forthcoming exhibitions and events
We have been keeping up to date with our friends through a newsletter or bulletin throughout our 90 year history
Subscribe:
We have been keeping up to date with our friends through a newsletter or bulletin throughout our 90 year history
Subscribe:
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📢There is still time to apply for the EHRI-UK National Research Fellowships! Deadline 30 November 2025 📅 Please share within your networks. @ehri-project.eu @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @holocaustnorth.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy
The Second Call for EHRI-UK National Research Fellowships is live 📅 Apply by 30 Nov 2025
Find out more 👇
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EHRI-UK Fellowships | EHRI-UK
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November 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
📢There is still time to apply for the EHRI-UK National Research Fellowships! Deadline 30 November 2025 📅 Please share within your networks. @ehri-project.eu @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @holocaustnorth.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy
In November 1945, twenty-four prominent members of Nazi Germany, who had been captured by the Allies at the end of the war, were prosecuted by the International Military Tribunal (IMT) for the crimes they planned and committed throughout the Second World War, including the Holocaust...
November 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM
In November 1945, twenty-four prominent members of Nazi Germany, who had been captured by the Allies at the end of the war, were prosecuted by the International Military Tribunal (IMT) for the crimes they planned and committed throughout the Second World War, including the Holocaust...
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The Samovar - alongside Deborah's episode of 'Glimpses of German History' - can be seen at the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social latest exhibition 'Eldercide - Older Jews and the Holocaust' on show until April 2026 in London.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The Samovar - alongside Deborah's episode of 'Glimpses of German History' - can be seen at the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social latest exhibition 'Eldercide - Older Jews and the Holocaust' on show until April 2026 in London.
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Learn more about the newest exhibition from co-curators Dr Christine Schmidt from @wienerlibrary.bsky.social and Dr Dan Stone and Roxy Moore from @rhulholocaustri.bsky.social in this free event, happening 2 December at 6:30pm!
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November 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Learn more about the newest exhibition from co-curators Dr Christine Schmidt from @wienerlibrary.bsky.social and Dr Dan Stone and Roxy Moore from @rhulholocaustri.bsky.social in this free event, happening 2 December at 6:30pm!
wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/curato...
wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/curato...
In the months following November 1938, Alfred Wiener and his colleagues at the JCIO in Amsterdam collected over 350 contemporary testimonies and reports of the November Pogrom in Germany and Austria.
Discover the full testimony collection via our online archive
Discover the full testimony collection via our online archive
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November 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
In the months following November 1938, Alfred Wiener and his colleagues at the JCIO in Amsterdam collected over 350 contemporary testimonies and reports of the November Pogrom in Germany and Austria.
Discover the full testimony collection via our online archive
Discover the full testimony collection via our online archive
"Through her eloquence and heartfelt storytelling, she brought the human dimension of the Kindertransport to life." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tributes paid to Holocaust survivor Vera Schaufeld
Holocaust survivor Vera Schaufeld is hailed for her
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November 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
"Through her eloquence and heartfelt storytelling, she brought the human dimension of the Kindertransport to life." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Thank you to everyone who attended the launch of our latest exhibition! Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust is now open to the public, Monday to Friday, 10am - 5pm, with free entry.
Find out more about the launch via @jewishnews.bsky.social www.jewishnews.co.uk/wiener-holoc...
Find out more about the launch via @jewishnews.bsky.social www.jewishnews.co.uk/wiener-holoc...
November 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Thank you to everyone who attended the launch of our latest exhibition! Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust is now open to the public, Monday to Friday, 10am - 5pm, with free entry.
Find out more about the launch via @jewishnews.bsky.social www.jewishnews.co.uk/wiener-holoc...
Find out more about the launch via @jewishnews.bsky.social www.jewishnews.co.uk/wiener-holoc...
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📣 Discover the stories behind our latest exhibition, Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust.
Join us on 2 December for a roundtable discussion with curators Christine Schmidt, Dan Stone, and Roxy Moore that will explore the untold history of of elderly Jews during the Holocaust: buff.ly/LK10rJX
Join us on 2 December for a roundtable discussion with curators Christine Schmidt, Dan Stone, and Roxy Moore that will explore the untold history of of elderly Jews during the Holocaust: buff.ly/LK10rJX
November 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
📣 Discover the stories behind our latest exhibition, Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust.
Join us on 2 December for a roundtable discussion with curators Christine Schmidt, Dan Stone, and Roxy Moore that will explore the untold history of of elderly Jews during the Holocaust: buff.ly/LK10rJX
Join us on 2 December for a roundtable discussion with curators Christine Schmidt, Dan Stone, and Roxy Moore that will explore the untold history of of elderly Jews during the Holocaust: buff.ly/LK10rJX
Our PhD and a Cup of Tea series is back!
For our next event in the series Ruthie Kaplan will discuss her research following the spatial conduct of Łódź’s Jewish middle—and upper-class in the interwar period.
Open for booking now:
For our next event in the series Ruthie Kaplan will discuss her research following the spatial conduct of Łódź’s Jewish middle—and upper-class in the interwar period.
Open for booking now:
PhD and a Cup of Tea - Spatial Research of Łódź's Jewish Middle and Upper-Class Before the Holocaust - The Wiener Holocaust Library
Part of our PhD and a Cup of Tea series of academic seminars. Ruthie Kaplan will discuss her research exploring the spatial conduct of Łódź's Jewish middle—and upper-class in the interwar period.
buff.ly
November 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Our PhD and a Cup of Tea series is back!
For our next event in the series Ruthie Kaplan will discuss her research following the spatial conduct of Łódź’s Jewish middle—and upper-class in the interwar period.
Open for booking now:
For our next event in the series Ruthie Kaplan will discuss her research following the spatial conduct of Łódź’s Jewish middle—and upper-class in the interwar period.
Open for booking now:
Looking for accurate, truthful information about various aspects of the history of the Holocaust?
We're constantly adding new videos to our YouTube channel drawing on our unique archive collections, academic talks and lectures, and our expertly curated exhibitions.
Subscribe now:
We're constantly adding new videos to our YouTube channel drawing on our unique archive collections, academic talks and lectures, and our expertly curated exhibitions.
Subscribe now:
The Wiener Holocaust Library
The Wiener Library is one of the world's leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust and Nazi era. Formed in 1933, the Library's unique collection of over one million items includes…
buff.ly
November 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Looking for accurate, truthful information about various aspects of the history of the Holocaust?
We're constantly adding new videos to our YouTube channel drawing on our unique archive collections, academic talks and lectures, and our expertly curated exhibitions.
Subscribe now:
We're constantly adding new videos to our YouTube channel drawing on our unique archive collections, academic talks and lectures, and our expertly curated exhibitions.
Subscribe now:
📣 Discover the stories behind our latest exhibition, Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust.
Join us on 2 December for a roundtable discussion with curators Christine Schmidt, Dan Stone, and Roxy Moore that will explore the untold history of of elderly Jews during the Holocaust: buff.ly/LK10rJX
Join us on 2 December for a roundtable discussion with curators Christine Schmidt, Dan Stone, and Roxy Moore that will explore the untold history of of elderly Jews during the Holocaust: buff.ly/LK10rJX
November 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
📣 Discover the stories behind our latest exhibition, Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust.
Join us on 2 December for a roundtable discussion with curators Christine Schmidt, Dan Stone, and Roxy Moore that will explore the untold history of of elderly Jews during the Holocaust: buff.ly/LK10rJX
Join us on 2 December for a roundtable discussion with curators Christine Schmidt, Dan Stone, and Roxy Moore that will explore the untold history of of elderly Jews during the Holocaust: buff.ly/LK10rJX
Thank you to everyone who attended the launch of our latest exhibition! Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust is now open to the public, Monday to Friday, 10am - 5pm, with free entry.
Find out more about the launch via @jewishnews.bsky.social www.jewishnews.co.uk/wiener-holoc...
Find out more about the launch via @jewishnews.bsky.social www.jewishnews.co.uk/wiener-holoc...
November 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Thank you to everyone who attended the launch of our latest exhibition! Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust is now open to the public, Monday to Friday, 10am - 5pm, with free entry.
Find out more about the launch via @jewishnews.bsky.social www.jewishnews.co.uk/wiener-holoc...
Find out more about the launch via @jewishnews.bsky.social www.jewishnews.co.uk/wiener-holoc...
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We were honoured to launch our newest exhibition 'Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust' at @wienerlibrary.bsky.social with @rhulholocaustri.bsky.social last week. Thank you to Dr Christine Schmidt, Dr Dan Stone, Nicola Loftus, and Dr Toby Simpson for the introduction to the material and topic.
November 18, 2025 at 11:47 AM
We were honoured to launch our newest exhibition 'Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust' at @wienerlibrary.bsky.social with @rhulholocaustri.bsky.social last week. Thank you to Dr Christine Schmidt, Dr Dan Stone, Nicola Loftus, and Dr Toby Simpson for the introduction to the material and topic.
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Our November newsletter has just made its way to subscribers!
Find out more about forthcoming free exhibitions and events, newly digitised collections, and all the latest updates from the Library: mailchi.mp/wienerholoca...
Find out more about forthcoming free exhibitions and events, newly digitised collections, and all the latest updates from the Library: mailchi.mp/wienerholoca...
📧 The Wiener Holocaust Library November Newsletter
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November 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Our November newsletter has just made its way to subscribers!
Find out more about forthcoming free exhibitions and events, newly digitised collections, and all the latest updates from the Library: mailchi.mp/wienerholoca...
Find out more about forthcoming free exhibitions and events, newly digitised collections, and all the latest updates from the Library: mailchi.mp/wienerholoca...