Our current exhibition, Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust, is closing in one week!

Visit Monday - Friday, 10am - 5pm to see this fascinating display including never before seen sources from our archive.

Suppressed Music Reawakened: From Archive to Sound - The Wiener Holocaust Library 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 ...

Join us on 28 April to mark 3 years of the Reawakening Suppressed Music project, presenting recent work to bring suppressed orchestral music back to life

The event will feature music by composers who were persecuted under the Nazi regime

Free tickets: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/suppre...

Wiener Holocaust Library granted permission for building transformation Go ahead from Camden Council for new learning area, gallery and roof garden for Grade II listed building

“The beautiful new building will provide us with new opportunities to share our history and our extraordinary collections. It will strengthen our ability to bring the evidence of Nazi crimes, collected by our predecessors from the Nazi rise to power, to the audiences of the future”

The full episode is available to watch now via BBC iPlayer buff.ly/7352xik

Amid rising threats against Jews in the UK we were pleased to be able to contribute to the latest BBC Panorama.

Lord Daniel Finkelstein spoke from our Reading Room, in the institution founded by his grandfather, about a torrent of antisemitic abuse he has faced recently from far right trolls.

Object - The Wiener Holocaust Library Based in London, The Wiener Holocaust Library is the world’s oldest and Britain’s largest collection of original archival material on pre-war Jewish life, the Nazi era and the Holocaust.

Since launching our digital archive last year we have been constantly updating the site to make as many of our collections as possible available to researchers around the world

There are now over 260,000 pages of evidence relating to the Holocaust and the Nazi era available online buff.ly/OaZa98s

"In an age of increased misinformation this database is also a reminder of the power of original documentation and its evidentiary capacity in the face of denial or distortion of the facts"

Our Co-Director contributed to a piece @CNN.com about a new Nazi membership search engine 🔗 buff.ly/chErKa6

Object - The Wiener Holocaust Library Based in London, The Wiener Holocaust Library is the world’s oldest and Britain’s largest collection of original archival material on pre-war Jewish life, the Nazi era and the Holocaust.

Since launching our digital archive last year we have been constantly updating the site to make as many of our collections as possible available to researchers around the world

There are now over 260,000 pages of evidence relating to the Holocaust and the Nazi era available online buff.ly/OaZa98s

Wiener Holocaust Library wins planning approval for major extension - Museums Association London institution granted permission to expand its exhibition and learning spaces

“In the current era of misinformation and disinformation, it’s more important than ever to emphasise our archives, our collections, and the evidence we have about this important history.”

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Nazi Slave Labour: Perpetrators and Victims - The Wiener Holocaust Library Between 1939 and 1945, 20 million individuals were exploited as slave and forced labourers by the Nazi regime. This exhibition will explore how perpetrators profited off and exploited slave…

📣 Coming next month!

A new exhibition launching in May 2026 will reveal the scale and brutality of the Nazi slave labour system, displaying eyewitness testimony, clandestine photographs and damning war crimes trial judgments that uncover this tangled history.

Find out more 🔗

‘Emotions in the Holocaust’ Special Seminar Series - The Wiener Holocaust Library We are excited to announce a special seminar series on ‘Emotions in the Holocaust’ that will run in the 2026 calendar year.

We are excited to announce a special seminar series on ‘Emotions in the Holocaust’ that will run in the 2026 calendar year.

This new academic lecture series will provide a forum for established and early career researchers to present on groundbreaking new research.

Find out more:

Don't miss this call for participants! Closes on Monday 20 April ⬇️⬇️

Report of Stroop on the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto

"There is no Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw anymore"

📃 This translated document is the so-called Stroop Report on the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto. This copy is from our collection of documents from the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials.

Search whlcollections.org to find out more.

Hidden: Photography and displacement under the Khmer Rouge   - The Wiener Holocaust Library Hidden is a long-term collaborative project by Charles Fox and Prum Sisaphantha, also known as Pantha. The exhibition follows Pantha’s personal journey during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia (1975–...

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“Hidden: Photography and displacement under the Khmer Rouge”
🗓️ 5 May 2026 - 15 May 2026
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#KhmerRouge #Cambodia #Kampuchea #Photography

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools This map shows the boundaries of the Warsaw Ghetto, where 400,000 people were incarcerated. It was published by the Yiddish Scientific Institute in 1944.

While the uprising ultimately failed, it was an extremely significant display of resistance from Jews in Warsaw. It delayed the Germans timeline of deportations, and inspired other resistance movements across the German-occupied areas.

Learn more: buff.ly/ieLaOCW

The Nazis changed tact, and slowly destroyed the ghetto, building by building, forcing Jews remaining in hiding to appear or be killed. 27 days after the initial April attack the uprising was crushed and the ghetto destroyed. The 42,000 survivors of the uprising were deported to camps in the east.

On 19 April 1943, the Nazis began their attack, led by SS General Jürgen Stroop. Within fifteen minutes, Jewish fighters retaliated, many with handmade weapons, initially forcing the German troops to retreat on the first day.

From the middle of 1942, the Nazis began mass deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to extermination camps in the East.

The utter despair felt by many Jews throughout the mass deportations hardened into growing resistance, and preparations were made to resist the Nazis' efforts.

Report of Stroop on the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto

"There is no Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw anymore"

📃 This translated document is the so-called Stroop Report on the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto. This copy is from our collection of documents from the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials.

Search whlcollections.org to find out more.

📢 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...

Don't miss this call for participants! Closes on Monday 20 April ⬇️⬇️

‘Emotions in the Holocaust’ Special Seminar Series - The Wiener Holocaust Library We are excited to announce a special seminar series on ‘Emotions in the Holocaust’ that will run in the 2026 calendar year.

We are excited to announce a special seminar series on ‘Emotions in the Holocaust’ that will run in the 2026 calendar year.

This new academic lecture series will provide a forum for established and early career researchers to present on groundbreaking new research.

Find out more:

New upcoming exhibition from @wienerlibrary.bsky.social

Nazi Slave Labour: Perpetrators and Victims - The Wiener Holocaust Library Between 1939 and 1945, 20 million individuals were exploited as slave and forced labourers by the Nazi regime. This exhibition will explore how perpetrators profited off and exploited slave…

📣 Coming next month!

A new exhibition launching in May 2026 will reveal the scale and brutality of the Nazi slave labour system, displaying eyewitness testimony, clandestine photographs and damning war crimes trial judgments that uncover this tangled history.

Find out more 🔗

In the spring of 1944, the Łódź ghetto was ‘liquidated’. At the time it was the last remaining ghetto in German-occupied Poland

75,000 Jews remaining in Łódź were deported to Chełmno and Auschwitz and murdered there

📸 The hospital for infectious diseases in Łódź Ghetto, buff.ly/AuiD1ZZ

Yom HaShoah: The mission to uncover the names and fates of a million murdered Jews - The Jewish Chronicle Digitisation has revolutionised Holocaust archives. From the UK and Israel to Poland and Germany, the JC talks to the people whose life's work is to help others find out what happened to their…

"The details we uncover can be stark and distressing, including for example collaboration and child abandonment, that people aren’t necessarily anticipating. Sharing all the information we find is part of our duty but we make sure that we do this in as sensitive a manner as possible” buff.ly/TFqBElE

Wiener Holocaust Library wins planning approval for major extension - Museums Association London institution granted permission to expand its exhibition and learning spaces

“In the current era of misinformation and disinformation, it’s more important than ever to emphasise our archives, our collections, and the evidence we have about this important history.”

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Find out more about the International Tracing Service Archive Team's work via our website: buff.ly/6KQaCVd

In The Jewish Chronicle this week, the Library's ITS Programme Manager discusses not only how her team goes about uncovering the names and fates of some of the 1 million unnamed victims of the Holocaust, but how they sensitively interpret and share that information with descendants buff.ly/TFqBElE

Yom HaShoah: The mission to uncover the names and fates of a million murdered Jews - The Jewish Chronicle Digitisation has revolutionised Holocaust archives. From the UK and Israel to Poland and Germany, the JC talks to the people whose life's work is to help others find out what happened to their…

"The details we uncover can be stark and distressing, including for example collaboration and child abandonment, that people aren’t necessarily anticipating. Sharing all the information we find is part of our duty but we make sure that we do this in as sensitive a manner as possible” buff.ly/TFqBElE