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| E-Newsletter for September 2022 |
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| 21 September - 4 November 2022 |
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| Upcoming Exhibition |
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The Wiener Holocaust Library has the UK’s largest archive of family papers related to Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe, including extensive collections of photographs: portraits, snapshots and albums. Family photographs have often been overlooked as historical or artistic objects in their own right. This exhibition asks visitors to reconsider their significance.
Featuring selected photographs from twelve family collections, the exhibition shows domestic, everyday images. They span holiday snaps from the 1920s, photo-postcards sent during the First World War, and formal studio portraits from the 1890s.
The images on display demonstrate an image-savvy public, using photography to express their identities and belonging within national cultures and local communities.
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The exhibition, Fighting Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today, shines a light on the various strategies that those fighting against antisemitism have taken over the last one hundred years and more, from publishing pamphlets refuting antisemitic ideas, to gathering evidence about the activities of antisemites, to street fighting and the infiltration of fascist groups.
This exhibition has been extended and will be on show until the 18th September.
You can still purchase our Fighting Antisemitism exhibition catalogue, view recordings of events in our Fighting Antisemitism series, and learn more about the inspiration and motivation for the exhibition in our accompanying video.
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Reading Room Exhibition
On display from 1st September, this Reading Room exhibition will draw upon historical documents in the archives of The Wiener Holocaust Library to focus on the theme of the renewal of Jewish communities after the Holocaust. The exhibition will feature materials from post-war Displaced Persons camps relating to the lives and experiences of Holocaust survivors, and uncover stories of the births, weddings, family reunions and migrations to new lives that happened in these most difficult of circumstances.
This exhibition is being curated as part of B’Nai B’rith UK’s Jewish Heritage Festival.
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We are delighted to announce that the Wiener Holocaust Library is participating in this year’s Open House Festival. The Open House Festival offers an opportunity for people to visit and gain access to a significant number of buildings, landscapes and neighborhoods across London.
The Library will be participating in the festival on Friday 9th September and Sunday 18th September from 12pm – 4pm on both dates. As part of this event, tours of the library will be conducted every half hour with the first at 12pm and the last at 3pm. The Tour will encompass the Library’s exhibition, main archive space and Wolfson Reading Room.
There is no pre-booking required, simply turn up and we’ll be delighted to welcome you in and show you around.
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We're delighted that our free education programme for schools is now open for booking for the 2022/23 Autumn term.
Run by the Library’s experienced education team and guided by the British curriculum, the programme of talks and workshops are aimed at teachers and students of the Holocaust wishing to deepen their understanding of the Holocaust through engagement with the Library’s unique and historic archive
Our next events for students and teachers are listed below, please register to attend as spaces are limited.
Please contact education@wienerholocaustlibrary.org if you are interested in booking a tailored talk or workshop for your school.
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This month also sees the launch of our Education Outreach Newsletter - a dedicated resource for Teachers detailing our ever-expanding education programme, educational resources and upcoming tours and workshops. To sign up to the Newsletter, email education@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
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New Educational Resources
This month has seen the publication of anew article exploring the Nazi occupation of Greece on our educational website, The Holocaust Explained. Aimed at British school students and designed with the curriculum in mind, The Holocaust Explained draws on the Library’s extensive archival collections to deepen students’ understanding of the Holocaust, its causes, and its consequences.
Our new article, focusing on the occupation of Greece, will enhance our series of occupation case studies on the website. Greece was initially invaded by Italy on 28 October 1940. Greece resisted the Italian invasion and, at first, were successful in pushing the Italian troops back into Albania. However, on 6 April 1941 German troops, supported by the Bulgarian and Hungarian armies, arrived to provide back up to the Italian forces, and by May 1941 Germany occupied the country.
Read the full article here.
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The PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series is designed for early-career researchers and PhD candidates to present their research for feedback from other researchers, PhD candidates, and faculty in a constructive, inclusive and friendly virtual setting. We are particularly interested in welcoming MA, doctoral students, and faculty to attend the seminars to share their views and perspectives.
Follow the links below to sign up for our upcoming events.
To get involved and to present your research, please contact Dr Christine Schmidt.
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Friday 16 September
10:00 - 17:00
The Wiener Holocaust Library
A limited number of tickets remain to attend this one-day, in person workshop coordinated by the Holocaust Research Institute and held at The Wiener Holocaust Library. The Workshop will bring together postgraduate and early career researchers focusing on gender and the Holocaust. It seeks to cover a range of themes, topics and demographics to incite discussion, debate and collaboration with gender at the core - with the understanding that gender is a fluid term and does not pertain only to women: masculinity and sexuality are also important frameworks to consider. We hope the workshop engages with this and offers an enriching day for all attending.
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Book Launch
The 14th
September will see the launch of a new book inspired by the current
exhibition: Fighting
Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today.
This new volume is edited by
the Library’s Barbara Warnock and Toby Simpson and with a foreword by Rabbi
Baroness Julia Neuberger DBE. In
a range of essays, the authors looks at the various individuals, groups and
organisations that have worked to counter antisemitism since the Dreyfus Affair
polarised France in the late nineteenth century.
The authors consider a range of
moments in the struggle against antisemitism, including the campaign to
exonerate Alfred Dreyfus; the anti-Nazi work of Alfred Wiener and others in
Germany and Holland inter-war; post-war anti-antisemitism and anti-fascist work
in Britain, including that of those engaged in direct action such as the 43
Group and The Wiener Library’s engagement in monitoring and analysing the
Holocaust and antisemitism.
The book is on sale now at the Library and via our online shop, where members receive a 10% discount!
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| Library Blog |
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'Heckling Mosley'
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This month we published a fascinating first-hand account of the 1966 general election, and the writer's experience 'Heckling Mosley' in East London.
Part of our Fighting Antisemitism series, this article looks at the fight against antisemitism here in London as Oswald Mosley's Union Movement attempted to make inroads in mainstream politics.
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| Wednesday 7 September 5:00 - 6:30pm |
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| Public Lecture: Shocking Photos: Holocaust Memorialisation, Research and Teaching |
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Public Lecture in partnership with Queen Mary, University of London.
Wendy Lower is an American historian and a widely published author on the Holocaust and World War II.
This event is open to all and will take place in the David Sizer Lecture Theatre, Bancroft Building, Queen Mary University of London.
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Thursday 8 September, 6:30pm
Part of the Excavation – Confrontation – Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust series
In this talk, Elise Bath, International Tracing Service Archive Team Manager at The Wiener Holocaust Library, will explore some of the documents in the Library’s collections that give an insight into the lives of Holocaust survivors in the immediate post-war period, and show how the ITS Digital Archive can be used to research the experiences of survivors of Nazi persecution as they tried to rebuild their shattered lives.
This event is part of B’Nai B’rith UK’s Jewish Heritage Festival taking place 1 September to 31 December.
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12 September, 7:30-m - Online Event
Judith Hayman tells the story of her mother’s life in the small town of Berndorf in Austria before and after the Anschluss on 12 March 1938.
Judith uses anecdotes from her mother, Charlotte, and from her aunt Frieda’s oral testimony. The miracle of Charlotte and Frieda and their immediate family’s escape is revealed but so too are the stories of family who were trapped in Austria and perished in the Łódź ghetto. Judith’s themes are on the role of bystanders and on what can happen when you hate ‘the other’ so much you want them dead.
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Wednesday 14 September 6:30 - 8:00pm
This new volume, edited by the Library’s Barbara Warnock and Toby Simpson and with a foreword by Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger DBE, is inspired by the Library’s current exhibition, Fighting Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today.
This book launch forms part of our Fighting Antisemitism event series.
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Thursday 15 September, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Join us for the launch of this new volume by Bea Lewkowicz and Anthony Grenville, who will speak at the event. The event will also feature a short film screening and live interviews with some of the children of the refugees featured in the volume.
In partnership with the Association of Jewish Refugees, the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies and Insiders/Outsiders.
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Thursday 22 September 3:30 - 5:00pm
Hosted as part of our of Holocaust and Genocide Partnership activities.
This volume of European Holocaust Studies edited by Michelle Gordon and Rachel O’Sullivan brings together a collection of peer-reviewed research articles by scholars of the Holocaust, genocide, and colonialism. The book explores the key concepts and themes of the historiographical challenges that scholars are grappling with in recent work connected to Hannah Arendt’s ‘boomerang thesis’ and Raphael Lemkin’s definition of genocide and the importance of its colonial dimensions.
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Wednesday 19th October 7:30pm
Gloria Silver tells the story of the
survival of her Polish born father, then just a teenager, which is an epic
story of bravery, resourcefulness and good luck.
Gloria includes Tony’s audio testimony
telling how he survived, living on his wits and taking risks despite having to
cope with the murders of the rest of his family and the other horrors of the
Shoah.
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Our Photo Archivist Torsten assisted with a new research project led by the Arolsen Archives this month - #LastSeen - Pictures of Nazi Deportations, providing important photographs from the Library's collection. The project aims to gather unknown photographs of Nazi deportations to recognise the victims in the photos and recover their stories.
A photograph from our collection of Dr Margarethe Wiener was also used in an article about the exchange transport from Bergen-Belsen to St. Gallen in January 1945. The author also describes Margarethe's early work against the Nazis.
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| The Library on Film: NFTS Bridges to Industry |
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The Library has teamed up with the NFTS, one of the world's leading film schools, to support teams of new filmmaking talent to create short films highlighting the Library's work.
A panel comprising: Jonathan Glazer (multi-award winning filmmaker and Library Trustee), Venetia Hawkes (NFTS Executive Producer for the Bridges to Industry scheme) and the Library's Toby Simpson and Barbara Warnock, was convened to select two projects to go into production.
The selected projects are 'Witness' written and directed by Katia Lom and produced by Shereen Ali, a commemorative poetic film to honour the lives of those affected by genocide using archive footage from the Library; and 'An Audio Testimony', a graphic representation of how the archive holds voices of the past, preserving them for future generations, written and directed by James Alexandrou and produced by Emma Hanson.
Dr Toby Simpson said: “We couldn’t be more excited to be working with NFTS graduates to convey the power of the Library's collections through film. The Bridges to Industry scheme is a brilliant way to foster collaboration between heritage institutions and talented young filmmakers with fresh, creative ideas. Watch this space!”
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| Exhibition Launch |
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| “We Are Not Alone”: Legacies of Eugenics |
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This important exhibition will launch at the Royal College of Psychiatrists on the 22nd September. Created by Professor Marius Turda with the support of the Library, this exhibition was shown for the first time at the Library last year.
The exhibition
reviews the impact of eugenics across time and space. It reveals how eugenics
has influenced programmes of human betterment in different national and
international contexts since the 1880s.
Look back on related talks, articles and find more information about the exhibition on our website.
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| Wednesday 4th – Friday 6th January 2023 |
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| Booking Now Open - Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution |
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The conference brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are engaged in research on all groups of survivors of Nazi persecution and who explore its aftermath in Europe and beyond. a variety of methodologies and highlighting work of new and more established scholars, papers and panels will explore issues of survival, rehabilitation, postwar trials and justice, and memory.
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| The Wiener Holocaust Library Blog |
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Why not check out the Library's blog? Read staff articles, past book reviews, guest posts and more.
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| The Library's YouTube Channel |
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Did you know that the Library has a YouTube channel? Browse through some of the past events the Library has hosted. Includes virtual events, book talks, curator talks and more.
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| Become a member of the Library |
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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.
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Becoming a member is a powerful way you can support us in working towards our wider mission. In return, you can enjoy our exclusive member benefits and know that you are playing a significant role in the future success of the Library.
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