📣 A call for applications is now open for an EHRI Transnational Workshop taking this December The workshop - Documentation as Resistance: Methodologies for Reconstructing Early Postwar Transnational Jewish Knowledge Networks - will take place at the Wiener Holocaust Library buff.ly/OwDg9Ae

Have you explored our online archive? Wiener Digital Collections is our groundbreaking digital portal offering access to some of our most significant collections to researchers around the world. Start your search at whlcollections.org

With huge thanks to @schuneke.bsky.social for his brilliant talk @wienerlibrary.bsky.social on his moving & incisive book, I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany. Special thanks to @williamrossjones.bsky.social for the insightful conversation. And thanks to all who braved the heat!

This summer, we are sharing episodes from ‘For the Living and the Dead: Traces of the Holocaust’, a podcast series by @ehri-project.eu. This week's episode is 'A Mica Flake from Theresienstadt’ with Robert Ehrenreich from @ushmm.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/5fy9u97f

Call for Applications @ehri-project.eu Transnational Workshop | Documentation as Resistance: Methodologies for Reconstructing Early Postwar Transnational Jewish Knowledge Networks, 1-2 December 2026, taking place at @wienerlibrary.bsky.social ⏳ Apply by 24 August 2026 tinyurl.com/23tvpcdv

📢 Call for Applications @ehri-project.eu Transnational Seminar | Holocaust Memoirs – Who Will Write Their History? 📍 Location of event: Terezín Memorial (Památnik,Czech Republic) | 📅 Date: 30 November – 4 December 2026 | ⏳ Deadline for Applications: 16 August 2026 tinyurl.com/5c8jztar

A terrific interview with the wonderful Keira Dobbin, Special Collections at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social. It was great to catch up with Keira and other members of the team back in April and we are excited to share about the Holocaust-related and Jewish collections at QUB.

The London Gazette of September 1947 lists Pathologist Mojzesz Seiler, resident in Bedfordshire as an "alien" granted naturalization in 1947 buff.ly/qnqrV1E

Discovered in the papers of the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund, some "foot drawings" and measurements for shoes request by Mojzesz Seiler. Along with his wife, he arrived in England in September 1939 from Poland via France. He was a medical doctor. We hope the shoes fitted them well! buff.ly/kY1BrFn

Join us on 16 July for the launch of a new Holocaust Studies special issue on queer experiences during the Holocaust at which we will hear from a panel of editors and contributors to the special issue including Helen Finch, Rosie Ramsden, Matt Smith, and William Jones. Free tickets:

Summertime, but you can still listen to our #podcast series 'For the Living and the Dead. Traces of the Holocaust'. Browse through our 18 episodes, chose your topic and close your eyes for 30 minutes. www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-podcast...

Welcome to the FIRST EHRI-ERIC Annual Activity Report! It sets out EHRIs achievements and advancement during 2025, a year of fundamental transition. It was fast-paced, at times challenging, but ultimately exciting and successful. Thanks to the commitment of many! www.ehri-project.eu/ehris-first-...

This summer, we will be sharing episodes from ‘For the Living and the Dead: Traces of the Holocaust’, a podcast series by @ehri-project.eu. Listen to Episode 1, ‘A Typewriter in Transit’, to learn about the life of Anatoly Kuznetsov and the massacre at Babyn Yar. www.ehri-project.eu/podcast-epis...

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. Join us for the next event in the series with Dr Christine Schmidt and Prof Dan Stone on 2 July... buff.ly/JoauVUy

Happening this Thursday! Sign up to attend our latest free exhibition event featuring Prof Dan Stone and our Co-Director @ceschmidt.bsky.social They will highlight aspects of our current exhibition in relation to gender Tickets: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibi...

3/ We curate celebrated public exhibitions using our collections, and many of these can now be accessed online. Discover more from our displays on Jewish refugee artist Fred Kormis, letter-writing during the Holocaust, and the fight against antisemitism www.exhibitions.wienerholocaustlibrary.org

2/ Our interactive Refugee Map uses some of our moving document collections relating to Jewish refugee families and their flight from persecution Explore their stories of escape and refuge through letters, diaries, family photos, testimony, and follow their journey on the map www.refugeemap.org

We're closed again tomorrow, but there are more ways than ever to access our collections and the stories they hold online ⬇ 1/ Wiener Digital Collections is our online archive featuring free access to some of our most significant collections including on the Nuremberg Trials and the Kindertransport

Are you an educator or researcher who wants to learn more about the Holocaust in Transnistria, where the single largest massacre of the Holocaust took place? Read this week's document blog to learn about the Bogdanovka massacre and the preservation of related archival records. tinyurl.com/y3mvsek6

Our latest exhibition, Nazi Slave Labour: Perpetrators & Victims, is open to the public now. We're open Monday to Friday, 10am - 5pm, with no need to book tickets in advance. All of our public exhibitions and events are free and open to all. Plan your visit: buff.ly/idvhmQO

I Will Not Abandon You brings to life the experiences of queer women in fascist Germany, showing how love, resistance, and collective action survived under Nazi rule. Join us at the Library next month for a free evening book talk to find out more about this fascinating new work!

This week's Holocaust document blog is the second instalment of Laszlo Csosz & Laura Csonka's investigation of one of the last and bloodiest crimes committed by Hungarian extremist Arrow Cross militiamen in Budapest at the very end of the war. Read the blog here blog.ehri-project.eu/2017/07/05/m...

Book Launch: The Mosse-Women: German-Jewish Life Stories by Elisabeth Wagner 🗓 15 June 2026 | 5:00 – 6:00 PM BST 💻 Zoom only | Free to attend | Held in English Book now: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/events/book-...

Our exhibition is accompanied by a series of free evening events in which experts will elucidate some of the display's key themes Don't miss your chance for an after-hours view and to find out more about this topic The first event takes place tomorrow! wienerholocaustlibrary.org/exhibition/n...

This week’s Holocaust document blog examines the last and bloodiest crimes committed by Hungarian extremist Arrow Cross militia in Budapest at the very end of the war. Read ‘Murdered on the Verge of Survival: Massacres in the Last Days of the Siege of Budapest, 1945’ here

In @theguardian.com this week, Robin Lustig describes the experience of his father as he fled Nazi Germany in April 1939. He joins us at the Library on 18 June to discuss his new book about his father's flight and life in Britain, And the Cello Came Too... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

I spent six weeks in London, researching at the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social, tbh, a dream come true. 💫 Here's a short report, if anyone wants to apply for a Conny Kristel Fellowship @ehri-project.eu, text me.

Read the new issue of Memoria Magazine, published by @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social. Thank you for including the call for the CK Fellowship programme and the next EHRI webinar on 17 June! viewer.joomag.com/memoria-en-n...

This week’s Holocaust document blog is a new post written by Olga Stefan examining motherhood and birth during the Holocaust through a study of sources documenting the only child born in the Vapniarka camp. Read 'A Child is Born: The Mysterious Case of Harry Wapniarka' here tinyurl.com/ye23fdf6

Read this week's Holocaust document blog about a diary written in hiding, by more than one writer, that chronicled 933 days in Nazi-occupied Netherlands. blog.ehri-project.eu/2018/07/31/a... Image credit: Diary of Fin Weijel -Aleng & Jaap Weijel © @niodamsterdam.bsky.social

Register for a @ehri-cz.bsky.social webinar on a new research portal that brings together heterogeneous Holocaust-related data from multiple institutions through a unified interface, addressing multilinguality, differing metadata standards & varying levels of data granularity. tinyurl.com/bdd4t3mf

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:

Rabbi Leo Baeck stands at the centre of German-Jewish history, yet his life and thought are often known only in outline. Listen to the LBI podcast to find out more about him: www.lbi.org/projects/pod... www.lbi.org/projects/pod... Read more: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/05...

Are you considering to apply for a Conny Kristel #Fellowship? Read the story of Silvia Pin who visited the Vienna Wiesenthal Archive and the German Exile Archive as an EHRI fellow and no longer wait with your application! Deadline 7 June. www.ehri-project.eu/silvia-pin-d...

When teaching about the Holocaust, educators are often asked what & when governments knew about what was happening to Jewish populations in Europe. This week’s Holocaust document blog by Dr Anna Ullrich provides an overview of the EHRI Online Edition ‘Diplomatic Reports’. tinyurl.com/yc3x87ua

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...

The workshop “Between Liberation and a new beginning” (Feb 3—5 2027, Forced Labour Museum Weimar) focuses on sources by former (Jewish) concentration camp prisoners concerning Buchenwald and other displaced persons camps after 1945. Abstracts due June 15 2026. www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

This week’s Holocaust document blog is an examination of the ‘Investigation Files’ of local police in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine and was written by Roman Shliakhtych, Fortunoff Research Fellow at the Wiener Wiesenthal Institute. Read the blog here: blog.ehri-project.eu/2023/04/25/m... #HolocaustResearch

📢 Undergrads researching the Holocaust — want to present at a conference? The BIAHS Postgraduate Conference has an undergraduate panel on 2 June at the University of Southampton. Ask your supervisor to nominate you by 18 May 👇 [email protected] #HolocaustStudies #BIAHS2026

It's almost time for the 6th Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture! Join us at Gresham College for a lecture by Professor Mary Fulbrook: Society and Survival During the Holocaust 📅 May 18, 6 - 8pm 📍 Gresham College, London Sign up to attend in person or online:

Jewish history is closer than you think. 🗺️ Our PhD researcher Immy Tozer has created a digital map revealing Hampshire's hidden Jewish heritage — and the Daily Echo is talking about it. Check it out 👇https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/26082900.digital-map-project-reveals-hampshires-jewish-heritage/

You have until 7 June 2026 to apply to the @ehri-project.eu Conny Kristel Fellowship Programme 2026. The programme is open to applicants at all career stages and particularly welcomes applications from early career practitioners such as PhD students. For more information visit tinyurl.com/5f7y53ms

Huge congratulations to Florine Miez & Dr Johannes Meerwald at @ehri-de.bsky.social, the German National Node of @ehri-project.eu on a great launch event! EHRI-DE have lots of great events and resources coming up, so follow them for news about Holocaust research & training in Germany.

This week’s Holocaust document blog is a new contribution to the EHRI Document Blog as a part of the special series ‘Holocaust in Ukraine’. Read Hannah Abakunova’s account of her personal journey through Holocaust studies in Ukraine here: blog.ehri-project.eu/2026/04/30/s...

This week our Co-Director @ceschmidt.bsky.social is in Vilnius at the Samuel Bak Museum. A panel of international experts discussed how we talk about Jewish heritage and the Holocaust today, engaging audiences, education, and the challenges of working with archives. www.jmuseum.lt/naujienos/sa...

Today’s Holocaust document blog is by Dr Joanna Sliwa and examines ‘Rescue and Parenting through Correspondence’. blog.ehri-project.eu/2020/11/02/r... Through a study of documents, images & oral testimony, this article provides a rare glimpse into the details of a hidden child's rescue arrangements.

Natalie Livingstone writes in @telegraph.co.uk this week about her new book, The Nuremberg Women. She will be at the Library in conversation with Lord Daniel Finkelstein about this fascinating new take on the post-war trials this June. Sign up for your free tickets now: buff.ly/ADnc3HM

"These women interpreted testimonies across multiple languages, assembled prosecution cases, sketched and painted the defendants’ faces, reported the proceedings to a war-weary public and, in some cases, confronted their former oppressors from the witness stand." buff.ly/Tr92ZSs

Our next event is the annual Howard Rein Memorial Lecture. Join @yairwallach.bsky.social (@soasuni.bsky.social) for a talk on 'Ashkenazi Medical professionals in the Arab Middle East: Rethinking the stories we know'. 📍 Hybrid 📅 Tues 5 May, 6pm (BST) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ashkenazi-...

There are only a few days left to view the Eldercide exhibition, open at @wienerlibrary.bsky.social until Thursday 30 April! This exhibition, curated with Prof Dan Stone @rhulholocaustri.bsky.social includes stories and materials from Jews who experienced the Holocaust in their later years