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Wiener Holocaust Library

A mother and daughter, both Czech Jewish slave laborers at Lippstadt, a subcamp of Buchenwald, 1945. (Wiener Holocaust Library collections)
August 15, 2026, 8:30 am
‘Annihilation through work’: London exhibit highlights overlooked story of slave labor in WWII
‘Nazi Slave Labor: Perpetrators and Victims,’ which runs at the Wiener Holocaust Library through the end of October, explains how integral forced workers were in Germany’s wartime economy
By Robert Philpot
German police search an elderly Jewish man at gunpoint in Kolo, Poland, circa 1941. (Courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum/ Instytut Pamieci Narodowej)
April 3, 2026, 2:58 pm
The elderly were among the most vulnerable in the Holocaust – and the most overlooked
‘Eldercide,’ on display at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library through April 30, explores how older Jews were especially unlikely to survive the Nazis, while those who did faced enormous challenges
By Robert Philpot
Helen Emily Davy, left, and Katharina Mayrhofer pose with the table taken from the Wertheimer family during the Holocaust. (Courtesy)
August 26, 2025, 8:08 am
In 1938, an Austrian Nazi family looted a Jewish home. Their heirs connect over a table
After a woman unearthed a dark family history while cleaning her attic, she took steps to make things right – highlighting systemic problems with Austria’s Holocaust restitution policies
By Robert Philpot
Established in 1933 by Alfred Wiener, a German Jew decorated with the Iron Cross in World War I, the Wiener Library in London is the world's oldest Holocaust museum. (Courtesy)
January 27, 2025, 4:17 pm
UK’s Wiener Holocaust Library releases its extensive archive online for first time
Publication of 150,000 items, including dissident German pamphlets, Nuremberg trial documents and photos of Auschwitz, coincides with 80th anniversary of death camp’s liberation
By AFP
Fred Kormis in his studio in the 1980s. (Courtesy: Wiener Holocaust Library Collections via JTA)
September 10, 2024, 7:49 pm
The overlooked artist who escaped the Nazis and made the 1st UK memorial to their victims
A new display at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library follows the upheaval that plagued the life of little-known sculptor Fred Kormis, who focused on memorializing humans in captivity
By Shira Li Bartov
Bettina Farack, a research fellow at the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem, speaks about the Library of Lost Books initiative during a launch event in Berlin in November 2023. (Courtesy Weiner Library via JTA)
July 6, 2024, 3:59 am
Amateur detectives invited to join search for lost Jewish library looted by Nazis
Researchers from the Leo Baeck Institute seek to virtually reunite 60,000 texts from the modern liberal Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin, destroyed in the Holocaust
By Shira Li Bartov
Staff member Mrs. Walter at the Wiener Holocaust Library in 1952. (Wiener Holocaust Library)
February 13, 2024, 8:35 am
A Holocaust museum that predates WWII, London’s Wiener Library turns 90 this month
Founded in 1934 by Alfred Wiener, the museum exposed Nazis, helped the Allies battle them, and led to their conviction. Now it’s one of the world’s preeminent research institutions
By Robert Philpot
Friedel Jaffe working as a clerk in the Berlin office of Adler and Oppenheimer in 1936. (Courtesy Deborah Jaffe)
May 18, 2023, 3:26 am
Now on display, UK Jews’ correspondence shows the Holocaust unfolding in real-time
At London’s Wiener Holocaust Library through June 16, an exhibit of letters from WWII tracks the spread of information by Jews seeking to protect loved ones from the Nazis’ web
By Robert Philpot
Hubert Nassau's photo of the Hakoah swim team from the 1920s. (Wiener Holocaust Library Collections)
October 21, 2022, 10:30 am
In London exhibition, snapshots of Jewish life soon to be shattered by the Holocaust
The Wiener Library’s display of Jewish refugee family photos, running through November 4, shows happy times – and dark clouds on the horizon
By Robert Philpot
Protests against the work of antisemite and Holocaust denier David Irving, likely in connection to his employment by The Sunday Times, in the UK, 1992. (Courtesy Community Security Trust)
April 28, 2022, 6:11 am
London exhibit charts 150 years of Europe’s antisemitism – and the fight against it
Through September, a display at the Wiener Library showcases efforts to monitor and combat Jew-hatred in France, Germany and the UK, from the Dreyfus affair through today
By Robert Philpot
Wiener Holocaust Library director Toby Simpson shows a reporter documents in the central London institution. (Jacob Judah/ JTA)
January 15, 2022, 3:50 pm
In London, the world’s oldest Holocaust archive is still collecting material
Sensing impending disaster, the Wiener Library’s founder gathered evidence of German antisemitism from the 1920s, making an argument against the Nazis before Hitler came to power
By Jacob Judah
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