If you would like to learn more about the life and work of Gerty Simon you can purchase the Library's catalogue published to mark the 2019 exhibition. 

Co-authored by Dr Barbara Warnock and John March, with a foreword by Professor Michael Berkowitz.

In this virtual panel discussion, speakers will explore aspects of reckonings with the Holocaust in the immediate post-war period.

To mark the publication in 2021 of Meriel Schindler’s acclaimed book The Lost Café Schindler, join the author and Lord Daniel Finkelstein in conversation about the book and Schindler’s project to uncover the history of her father and her family.

In this PhD and a Cup of Tea talk, Dr Imogen Dalziel will examine possible motivations for visitors removing artefacts from Auschwitz, such as financial gain, iconography, the need for an ‘authentic’ experience and the fulfillment of emotional connections.

In this virtual talk, our panel of speakers will discuss different ways of commemorating the death marches, including pilgrimages, memorials at former Nazi camps and other sites of significance, and artistic and photographic responses to such sites.

To mark the forthcoming publication of Rachael Cerrotti’s new memoir, which follows on from her award-winning podcast, We Share the Same Sky, join The Wiener Holocaust Library and The Ark Synagogue to hear Rachael in conversation with Stephen D. Smith about the book and the genesis and development of the project.

For the final event in our Death Marches exhibition series, we are delighted to be joined by Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg BEM who will share his experiences of his own death march journey and liberation, led in conversation with Professor Dan Stone.

As part of the Library's Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust event series, Judy Batalion will be discussing her acclaimed new book, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos.

Dr Henning Borggräfe (Arolsen Archives), Dr Simone Gigliotti (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Ms Yona Kobo (Yad Vashem) discuss the sources and methodologies used to research and narrate the history of the death marches. Chaired by Professor Dan Stone (Royal Holloway, University of London). Part of the Death Marches: Evidence and Memory exhibition event series.

The panel addressed how forensic evidence, such as sites of mass burial and human remains, has informed research and remembrance of genocide, as well as political and ethical dealings with sites of mass atrocity. Speakers discussed forensic archaeology and exhumations of mass graves related to the Spanish Civil War, the Holocaust, and the Second World War, and the afterlives of related sites.

In this event, hosted in association with the Ishami Foundation to mark the anniversary of the ‘100 days’ of the Genocide Against the Tutsi, our panel of speakers considered issues around denial and distortion of the Holocaust and of the genocide against Tutsi. Our speakers each gave their perspectives on the nature of these kinds of falsification and misrepresentation of history, current manifestations of these attitudes and beliefs, and the mechanisms by which such beliefs are spread and propagated.

To Meet in Hell follows Glyn Hughes, a high-ranking British officer, and Rachel Genuth, a teenager from the Hungarian provinces, as they navigate their respective forms of hell during the final, brutal year of the Second World War.

The Library's holdings on war crime trials largely pertain to those crimes committed by the Nazis and their allies during the Second World War. We also hold a small but growing section on war crime trials relating to other genocides.

Demands upon the Library continue to increase as we face rising antisemitism, racism, distortion and denial of the Holocaust and genocide. We need to continue our important work to ensure our Collections are put to the best possible use and to the service of the future.