📢 Paid student summer placement opportunity (London area)🔊 @wienerlibrary.bsky.social is hosting a 150-hours work placement. This would suit a student of Library and Information Studies with some volunteering experience in libraries. ⏳ Apply by Sunday 19 April 2026 ❗ www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-plac...
Honoured and delighted to have launched our new edited volume, Older Jews and the Holocaust, this week @lbilondon.bsky.social! With huge gratitude to them, especially Dr Magda Wrobel and @joannasliwa24.bsky.social @claims-conference.bsky.social
for all their work planning this terrific event!
Jürgen Habermas ist heute im Alter von 96 Jahren in Starnberg verstorben.
Thank you for visiting (after a day of teaching and commuting no less!) and chatting today, @ankahajkova.bsky.social!
And for your support for this project 🙏
Thrilled and honoured to be taking up this post together with Barbara. We’re looking forward to leading @wienerlibrary.bsky.social through its next, exciting chapter! With many thanks to our Trustees, staff and friends for their support and confidence in us.
Christine Schmidt explaining things to the NYT! @ceschmidt.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/w...
"The Holocaust was not only perpetuated by ideologues but also carried out through bureaucratic means.”
Our acting Co-Director @ceschmidt.bsky.social spoke to @nytimes.com for this fascinating feature out today ➡️ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/w...
EHRI-PL Call for Papers | International #Conference “Documenting the Holocaust: #Testimonies as Historical Evidence”
Date: June 16–17, 2026 | Location: The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, Poland | Language: English | Deadline for applications: March 31, 2026
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Thrilled to see our beautiful book, Holocaust Letters, out soon from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social! With huge thanks to my amazing co-editors @sandralipner.bsky.social @charlieknight.bsky.social & Clara Dijkstra. Launching soon @wienerlibrary.bsky.social: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-l...
Over the next week we'll be featuring articles from @ehri-project.eu document blog. Today's blog is by @ceschmidt.bsky.social Acting Co-Director of @wienerlibrary.bsky.social and is a great resource for researchers & students using Holocaust testimony blog.ehri-project.eu/2019/04/17/h... #HMD2026
I was honoured to chair this wonderful discussion last night between Debórah and Dan. A mentor and friend, Debórah encouraged us to reconsider seriously the role of the irrational and unpredictable in making sense of the past. Grateful to have her contributions to this conference!
We’re sharing impressions from our three days of gathering together for the @bcflconference.bsky.social conference at this dedicated account. @wienerlibrary.bsky.social is proud to co-host this dynamic international conference!
And we begin! Acting Co-Director of the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social Dr @ceschmidt.bsky.social giving the first opening remarks, followed shortly by Professor David Feldman, Director of @bisa-bkk.bsky.social !
📣 Freelance opportunity!
We're seeking to engage an experienced provenance researcher to conduct a detailed provenance and restitution investigation into the St Lambrecht collection, currently held at the FCDO archive.
Find out more and apply🔗
Check out the rich programme of new research on survivors of Nazi persecution featured @bcflconference.bsky.social January 2026 conference - and register to attend today!
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88% of the way toward @wienerlibrary.bsky.social’s Big Give fundraising challenge! Can you help us reach 💯?
Your gift is doubled until Tuesday, 9 Dec! Everything helps! Please give and share widely
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
We are now live! Thank you @drcweissenberg.bsky.social and everyone who has given so far!
It’s that time of year! If you’ve taken part in our vibrant free events programme, exhibitions or made use of our amazing collections, please consider donating.
Double your gift now - every bit helps! And please share 🙏
And the programme: museumforintelsen.se/en/about-the...
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So honoured to give the opening keynote on @wienerlibrary.bsky.social testimony collections, past & present, with Dr Rebecca Jinks for the Collecting the Holocaust Conference in Stockholm. A stimulating and challenging programme made even better with dear friends. Thank you to the organisers!
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...
Just a few days left to apply!
Thank you, @ankahajkova.bsky.social! Really enjoyed the long chat with Bea @theajruk.bsky.social and Natalia about Eva Reichmann’s postwar work for @wienerlibrary.bsky.social and her German Jewish networks in exile. With thanks to @lbilondon.bsky.social for this event and to everyone for coming!
Are you a postgrad with a passion for public history and engaging different publics with the latest Holocaust research? Join our team! Details ⬇️
Looking for short-term Holocaust research-related fellowships in the UK? Our second @ehri-uk.bsky.social Fellowship call is now live! Details below and spread the word!
I am so pleased the important work on Eva Reichmann by my friend Christine @ceschmidt.bsky.social is now coming out. Reichmann was the grande dame of the early Holocaust studies and her biography has been long overdue.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Thank you! 🙏
A photograph of the exhibition gallery at the Wiener Holocaust Library with the Finding Ivy exhibition in situ
A photograph of the exhibition gallery at the Wiener Holocaust Library with the Finding Ivy exhibition in situ
A photograph of the exhibition gallery at the Wiener Holocaust Library with the Finding Ivy exhibition in situ
A black and white photograph of the Angerer family, on display in the Wiener Holocaust LIbrary's current exhibition
On display now until 5 November, Finding Ivy: A Life Worthy of Life....
This important travelling exhibition tells the stories of disabled British-born victims of Nazi persecution in the wider context of the Nazis’ T4 ‘euthanasia’ programme.
Find out more: buff.ly/1qhoBfN
The Wiener Holocaust Library stands in solidarity with Britain’s Jewish community after yesterday's horrific attack targeting Jews on Yom Kippur. Our thoughts are with the families of Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz, the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation & all who have been affected by these events.