🗺️ Our interactive Refugee Map allows you to browse and search a selection of our rich collection of family papers, including diaries, photo albums, identity and emigration papers, Red Cross letters and recorded interviews... www.refugeemap.org

‘Polish Jews are not working hard enough yet; a German construction worker carries five times as many stones up a ladder.’ This article is titled ‘The Jews must work’ and was published in an issue of the Nazis’ illustrated newspaper which we hold in our collection.

Every Tuesday we lead a behind the scenes tour of our archive! If you've never seen our stores, including some of the unique photos and documents within them, join us this Tuesday at 2pm... Sign up here:

🏛️Book Talk – Through the Eyes of Jewish Child Survivors from Poland, Joanna Michlic in conversation with Zoë Waxman 📅 9 June, 6:30 - 8:00pm Joanna Michlic's latest book offers an intimate social history of Jewish childhood during and after the Holocaust. Sign up for free tickets:

Every Tuesday afternoon you can visit the world’s Holocaust archives for an in-depth view of our historic collections and to see first-hand how we collect and preserve valuable material for future generations. There's no need to book, just turn up at 2pm and we'll be delighted to welcome you!

What happened after liberation when Jewish survivors tried to reclaim what had been stolen from them? Join us for an event with Adena J. Bernstein as she discusses her new book, Stolen Legacies: The Fight for Nazi-Looted Art 📅 4 June, 6:30 - 8pm 📍 The Wiener Holocaust Library buff.ly/czAkezz

Signing up to receive our monthly updates is the best way to stay up to date with all exhibitions, events, research, publications and news from our collections Catch up on previous issues and subscribe via our website: buff.ly/rIGBBjT

Last week Professor Mary Fulbrook delivered the 6th Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture. She spoke to a packed audience about her research into the communities and groups who refused to look the other way during the Holocaust... buff.ly/EaHy8s8

A series of evening events throughout the run of our latest exhibition will see experts on the subject from around the world offer their perspective on aspects of the display. Find out more and sign up for free tickets:

On sale now... Our latest publication accompanies our current exhibition, Nazi Slave Labour: Perpetrators & Victims, and provides additional insights into some of the remarkable items from our collection which are on display Visit our onsite bookshop or order your copy online buff.ly/iyGERZ3

In 1942, Zdeněk Tmej was conscripted to work on railways in Breslau Germany. Transported from his native Prague, he took clandestine photos of the everyday lives of his group of 100 Czech labourers. Tmej was one of 20 million people exploited as workers by the Nazi regime.

Survivor Eva Clarke and writer Jonathan Freedland highlight individual stories from brutal slave labour system

What happened after liberation when Jewish survivors tried to reclaim what had been stolen from them? Join us for an event with Adena J. Bernstein as she discusses her new book, Stolen Legacies: The Fight for Nazi-Looted Art 📅 4 June, 6:30 - 8pm 📍 The Wiener Holocaust Library 🎫

"She had to clamber onto a cart as the prisoners were transported by carts to the camp. She had people lying all over her with typhus and typhoid fever, and she proceeded to give birth to me" wienerholocaustlibrary.org/2026/05/21/e...

What was it that made people risk their own lives to save Jews who were being persecuted by the Nazis? For the 6th Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture Prof Mary Fulbrook spoke about the communities and groups who refused to look the other way during the Holocaust Catch up now:

Signing up to receive our monthly updates is the best way to stay up to date with all exhibitions, events, research, publications and news from our collections Catch up on previous issues and subscribe via our website:

🗺️ Our interactive Refugee Map allows you to browse and search a selection of our rich collection of family papers, including diaries, photo albums, identity and emigration papers, Red Cross letters and recorded interviews... www.refugeemap.org

"20 million individuals were exploited as slave and forced labourers by the Nazi regime, including concentration camp prisoners, POWs and foreign civilian workers. Their stories are told in this free exhibition." Our latest exhibition is featured in Londonist this week

Final tickets available now! Don't miss this fascinating talk at the Library next week: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-t...

Millions were forced into slave labour under the Nazi regime, this exhibition uncovers their stories Come behind the scenes with the exhibition's curators as they install our latest landmark display, Nazi Slave Labour: Perpetrators & Victims

"She had to clamber onto a cart as the prisoners were transported by carts to the camp. She had people lying all over her with typhus and typhoid fever, and she proceeded to give birth to me" wienerholocaustlibrary.org/2026/05/21/e...

What happened after liberation when Jewish survivors tried to reclaim what had been stolen from them? Join us for an event with Adena J. Bernstein as she discusses her new book, Stolen Legacies: The Fight for Nazi-Looted Art 📅 4 June, 6:30 - 8pm 📍 The Wiener Holocaust Library 🎫

Millions were forced into slave labour under the Nazi regime, this exhibition uncovers their stories Come behind the scenes with the exhibition's curators as they install our latest landmark display, Nazi Slave Labour: Perpetrators & Victims

Had fascinating visit @wienerlibrary.bsky.social Where I bought a copy of @ceschmidt.bsky.social et al, Older Jews & the Holocaust A subject I’ve long been interested in, having discovered that the majority of Jews deported from the area my grandparents lived in were elderly. 🗃️ #history

Many thanks to the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social for giving a wonderful tour of the institution to the General Assembly delegates of #EHRI-ERIC. The Wiener Holocaust Library is a member of @ehri-uk.bsky.social and the staff, resources and history of the library made quite an impression. www.ehri-uk.org

Final tickets available now! Don't miss this fascinating talk at the Library next week: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-t...

Last night Professor Mary Fulbrook delivered the 6th Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture. She spoke to a packed audience about her research into the communities and groups who refused to look the other way during the Holocaust... wienerholocaustlibrary.org/2026/05/19/a...

Applications for the Conny Kristel Fellowship Programme 2026 are now open! 🎉 Submit yours before midnight on June 7, 2026 and join us as a fellow! #AcademicFellowship #OpenCall

"20 million individuals were exploited as slave and forced labourers by the Nazi regime, including concentration camp prisoners, POWs and foreign civilian workers. Their stories are told in this free exhibition." Our latest exhibition is featured in Londonist this week

🗺️ Our interactive Refugee Map allows you to browse and search a selection of our rich collection of family papers, including diaries, photo albums, identity and emigration papers, Red Cross letters and recorded interviews... www.refugeemap.org

Signing up to receive our monthly updates is the best way to stay up to date with all exhibitions, events, research, publications and news from our collections Catch up on previous issues and subscribe via our website:

Last night Professor Mary Fulbrook delivered the 6th Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture. She spoke to a packed audience about her research into the communities and groups who refused to look the other way during the Holocaust... wienerholocaustlibrary.org/2026/05/19/a...

The editors of the current issue of our yearbook "History of Intellectual Culture" are inviting everyone to a virtual discussion on Wednesday May 27, 7pm (Israel time) / 5pm (BST) / 12pm (CEST) To sign up for the event, please send an email to: [email protected]

Between 1939 and 1945, 20 million individuals were exploited as slave and forced labourers by the Nazi regime 13m of them were concentration camp prisoners, POWs and foreign civilian workers, and 7m were forced to work in occupied territories outside Germany as the Second World War was waged...

Professor Mary Fulbrook was interviewed on BBC Radio 4 yesterday morning about her research into the local communities and religious groups who refused to look the other way during the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust, also the subject of today's Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture

Join us later this month for a @hgrporg.bsky.social book talk on a new work which explores the meanings of “homecoming” for Jews from Greece through the lens of survivor testimony ➡️ Homecoming and Survival: Jewish Life Stories and Return in Greece 📍 28 May, 6:30pm Sign up now:

Join us later this month for a @hgrporg.bsky.social book talk on a new work which explores the meanings of “homecoming” for Jews from Greece through the lens of survivor testimony ➡️ Homecoming and Survival: Jewish Life Stories and Return in Greece 📍 28 May, 6:30pm Sign up now:

Professor Mary Fulbrook was interviewed on BBC Radio 4 yesterday morning about her research into the local communities and religious groups who refused to look the other way during the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust, also the subject of today's Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture

What happened after liberation when Jewish survivors tried to reclaim what had been stolen from them? Join us for an event with Adena J. Bernstein as she discusses her new book, Stolen Legacies: The Fight for Nazi-Looted Art 📅 4 June, 6:30 - 8pm 📍 The Wiener Holocaust Library 🎫

Every Tuesday we lead a behind the scenes tour of our archive! If you've never seen our stores, including some of the unique photos and documents within them, join us this Tuesday at 2pm... Sign up here:

🏛️Book Talk – Through the Eyes of Jewish Child Survivors from Poland, Joanna Michlic in conversation with Zoë Waxman 📅 9 June, 6:30 - 8:00pm Joanna Michlic's latest book offers an intimate social history of Jewish childhood during and after the Holocaust. Sign up for free tickets:

Between 1939 and 1945, 20 million individuals were exploited as slave and forced labourers by the Nazi regime 13m of them were concentration camp prisoners, POWs and foreign civilian workers, and 7m were forced to work in occupied territories outside Germany as the Second World War was waged...

🏛️Book Talk – Through the Eyes of Jewish Child Survivors from Poland, Joanna Michlic in conversation with Zoë Waxman 📅 9 June, 6:30 - 8:00pm Joanna Michlic's latest book offers an intimate social history of Jewish childhood during and after the Holocaust. Sign up for free tickets:

Every Tuesday we lead a behind the scenes tour of our archive! If you've never seen our stores, including some of the unique photos and documents within them, join us this Tuesday at 2pm... Sign up here:

What happened after liberation when Jewish survivors tried to reclaim what had been stolen from them? Join us for an event with Adena J. Bernstein as she discusses her new book, Stolen Legacies: The Fight for Nazi-Looted Art 📅 4 June, 6:30 - 8pm 📍 The Wiener Holocaust Library 🎫

Hidden: Photography and Displacement under the Khmer Rouge is open until Friday! Don't miss your chance to see this fascinating creative response to violence, loss and forced relocation under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia Find out more and plan your visit wienerholocaustlibrary.org/exhibition/h...

Next week we launch a landmark new exhibition! Photos, eyewitness testimony, trial documents and personal letters reveal the crimes of the perpetrators and the individual stories of the victims of the Nazis' ruthless system of enslavement and forced work wienerholocaustlibrary.org/exhibition/n...

Don't miss our latest Academic Book Event, hosted with the @hgrporg.bsky.social ➡️ HGRP Book Talk – Homecoming and Survival: Jewish Life Stories and Return in Greece 📅 28 May, 6:30 - 8pm 📍 The Wiener Holocaust Library Sign up for your free ticket now:

Next week we launch a landmark new exhibition! Photos, eyewitness testimony, trial documents and personal letters reveal the crimes of the perpetrators and the individual stories of the victims of the Nazis' ruthless system of enslavement and forced work wienerholocaustlibrary.org/exhibition/n...

📣 Coming this 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 🔗