Roxy Moore, the Library's The Holocaust Explained Project Coordinator, has written an article exploring the end of the Holocaust and the aftermath of genocide for Holocaust Memorial Day, reflecting on the 2022 theme of ‘One Day’.

This virtual Holocaust Memorial Day talk, aimed at GCSE and A-Level students, will utilise sources from the Library’s unique archive to examine the topic of ‘liberation’. It will contextualise the final events of the Holocaust, explore the concept of ‘liberation’, consider life after ‘liberation’ in DP camps and frame why it is so important that we remember the Holocaust today.

The presentations were complemented by a stimulating discussion featuring contributions by experts in the field of challenging extremism, Dr Dave Rich of the Community Security Trust, Dr Joe Mulhall of HOPE not hate, and Dr Bethan Johnson of the Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right, on the subject of fighting fascism today. The panellists discussed the threats posed by the rapid dissemination of extremist ideas online, including conspiracy theories to do with COVID-19, and the continued threat of violent action from the far right, and considered the difficulties faced by those trying to challenge extremism and extremist ideas.

Joining the conference online from Vienna, Professor Wodak looked at the means by which extreme-right wing views, such as anti-refugee attitudes, become normalised in the mass media and in political discourse.

Professor Gottlieb reflected upon issues around gender in British fascism, and the historical and family memories of fascist women today, twenty years on from the publication of her seminal work, Feminine Fascism.

The Kitchener Camp has been largely forgotten today, this exhibition draws on materials collected by the Kitchener Camp Project and the Library to build a moving and compelling picture of this unlikely sanctuary.

Tickets are still available to join us for the exhibition launch with Antony Lishak on Thursday 17 February at the Library. 

As antisemitic rhetoric and actions continue to pose a threat to Jews in Britain and around the world, the Library’s timely new exhibition explores the individuals, organisations and campaigns that have fought back against antisemitism in France, Britain and Germany over the hundred years and more since the time of the Dreyfus Affair in France in the late nineteenth century.

In this lunchtime talk, Helen Roche will present some of her research regarding the first comprehensive history of the Third Reich's most prominent elite schools, the National Political Education Institutes (Napolas / NPEA).

We are delighted to host Dr Joanna Sliwa in conversation with Professor Natalia Aleksiun in honour of Dr Sliwa’s joint award of the 2020 Ernst Fraenkel Prize. Dr Sliwa’s award-winning manuscript, Jewish Childhood in Kraków, is the first book to tell the history of Kraków in the second World War through the lens of Jewish children’s experiences.

Living in Two Worlds is a unique collection of personal diaries and letters describing the lives of a remarkable couple, Else and Siegfried Rosenfeld, during the 1930s, then throughout the Second World War and beyond.

In this virtual doctoral seminar, Mark Frankel will talk about two episodes in the Quaker politician T. Edmund Harvey's career: his intervention on behalf of political prisoners in the occupied Ruhr in 1923, and his part in the Quakers’ collective response to the Munich Agreement of 1938.

Join us for a talk and reception to mark the launch of the 'Leave to Land' exhibition at the Library. Antony Lishak will explore the significance of this remarkable act of humanitarianism.

This is an in-person event at the Library.

On 27 June 1941, the Wehrmacht captured the Soviet-occupied Polish city of Białystok and murdered 2,000 Jews. In this virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea presentation, Jake Holliday will draw upon official records, survivors’ accounts and post-war criminal trial papers to try and understand what happened in Białystok that day.

This virtual event celebrates the launch of The Journey Home: Emerging out of the Shadow of the Past and will be introduced by the co-editor, David Clark, and two of the contributors to the book. This event is in partnership with the Second Generation Network.

In this Leave to Land exhibition talk, Professor Clare Ungerson will discuss how it came about that 4,000 German Jewish refugee men moved from Greater Germany to live in an old army camp on the edge of the small town of Sandwich in East Kent in 1939.

In this event, Simon Parkin will speak about his new book which uses exclusive new archival material, letters and diaries to reveal the untold story of history's most extraordinary prison camp, where Britain interned thousands of refugees during the Second World War.

On Monday 25 October 2021, the Library celebrated the launch of a major new collection of nearly 300 filmed interviews with ‘Third Reich’ contemporaries.

Speakers at the launch event included Sam Pope (ZEF Productions), Professor Mary Fulbrook (UCL), Dr Stefanie Rauch (UCL), Mileva Stupar (Institute National de l’Audiovisuel), and Dr Toby Simpson (The Wiener Holocaust Library).

The Library was delighted to partner with UCL's Institute of Jewish Studies and the Institute for Polish Jewish Studies to virtually launch Michael Fleming's new book In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission and the Search for Justice.

This talk examines the struggle to attain post-war justice and prosecution.

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.