The Wiener Library: An Introduction
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide is the world's oldest Holocaust archive and Britain's largest collection on the Nazi era.
Learn more about our founder, how the Library came to be in London, and our work today.
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This film was kindly donated by Emma Kane
Narrated by Natasha Kaplinsky
Scriptwriting by Adam Taub
Music by Chris Rogers
Sound recording by Chris Phinikas at Silk Sound Studios
Leica Camera c/o RG Lewis
Printing Press c/o The Old Printing Shop
Directed and Edited by Richard Gold
Encounters: 1984 Wiener Library Exhibition in London
Volunteer Gaby's Film Project on the Wiener Library
In March 2014, volunteer and media student Gabrielle Deimeke ( made a film about the Wiener Library and the 'Match a Million' campaign. Our Learning and Engagement Manager, Toby, features in the film explaining more about our work.
A taster of Museums at Night at the Wiener Library - 14 May 2015
Thanks to volunteer, Richard Dunnett, for putting this film together. On 14 May 2015 our tour guides Kerrstyn and Sarah explored the Wiener Library's collection of Tarnschriften, or hidden pamphlets, and a personal story through memoirs, as part of our Museums at Night event.
Georgian Revealed - Valentin's Ball at the British Library in London
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British Library
Lady Greys Productions
Edmonds and Gerrish
Lord Byron (poetry)
Produced by Tessy de Nassau/ De Lux
291014 The Wiener Library: The 1984 Anti-Sikh Pogroms Remembered
Coverage of 'The 1984 Anti-Sikh Pogroms Remembered' exhibition launch event held on 29 October 2014 at The Wiener Library for the Study of Holocaust and Genocide, London.
Professor Michelle Tusan: The British Empire and the Armenian Genocide
This talk explores the British Empire’s response to the 1915 Armenian Genocide in which an estimated one million Armenians were killed. A leading power in the region and the world at the time, Britain and its Empire played a key role in determining the global response to events as they unfolded in the Ottoman Empire. Newly uncovered archival material on imperial policy dating back to the nineteenth century and war crimes trials held after WWI to punish perpetrators show why it proved impossible to stop the violence and prosecute those responsible for the atrocities despite the emergence at the time of the category of ‘crimes against humanity’ and one of the first ever international humanitarian campaigns.
Professor Michelle Tusan is Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the author of Smyrna’s Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide and the Birth of the Middle East. She has published widely on the history of humanitarianism and human rights.
Blue Danube by Strauss
This specifically Viennese sentiment associated with Strauss's melody has made it an unofficial Austrian national anthem.
Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Blue Danube is the common English title of An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314 (German for On the Beautiful Blue Danube), a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in 1866. Originally performed on 15 February 1867 at a concert of the Wiener Männergesangsverein (Vienna Men's Choral Association), it has been one of the most consistently popular pieces of music in the classical repertoire. Its initial performance was considered only a mild success, however, and Strauss is reputed to have said, The devil take the waltz, my only regret is for the coda—I wish that had been a success!
After the original music was written, the words were added by the Choral Association's poet, Joseph Weyl. Strauss later added more music, and Weyl needed to change some of the words. Strauss adapted it into a purely orchestral version for the 1867 Paris World's Fair, and it became a great success in this form. The instrumental version is by far the most commonly performed today. An alternate text was written by Franz von Gernerth, Donau so blau (Danube so blue). The Blue Danube premiered in the United States in its instrumental version on 1 July 1867 in New York, and in Great Britain in its choral version on 21 September 1867 in London at the promenade concerts at Covent Garden.
When Strauss's stepdaughter, Alice von Meyszner-Strauss, asked the composer Johannes Brahms to sign her autograph-fan, he wrote down the first bars of The Blue Danube, but adding Leider nicht von Johannes Brahms (Alas! not by Johannes Brahms).
Photo by Fritz Luckhardt (1843-1894) - PhotographerAdam Cuerden -
Restoration - This image comes from Gallica Digital Library and is available under the digital ID btv1b8453822q, Public Domain,
Doris Jones at 1984 Sikh rememberance rally london 09/06/13
1984 Sikh rememberance rally london 09/06/13. Sikhs are still protesting at 10 downing street for prof bhullar .The face of the Sangat , The voice of the Sangat
Refugees In Our Eyes - 12.5 minute version
The film explores the refugee crisis through the eyes of a group of teenagers from London as they encounter activists, artists and those directly involved. Featuring Syrian refugee and activist Ahmad al-Rashid, AOI World Illustration award winner Olivier Kugler and the Jewish Museum.
There is also an 18 minute version featuring ice&fire theatre and campaigner Onjali Rauf who organised aid to the Calais Camp with her charity Making Herstory.
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The film was produced on a weeklong film workshop at Camden Summer University.
The film has been screened at the British Museum, the British Library, the October Gallery and the Wiener Library.
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Full talk: Michael Rosen - So They Call You Pisher!
On 11 October 2018 writer and broadcaster, Michael Rosen presented his memoir, So They Call You Pisher! at The Wiener Library.
In the midst of the Rosens' often hilarious north London life, there was a mystery: what happened to his paternal grandfather's side of the family? Thanks to some old postcards turning up ten years ago, some photos sealed up in a cupboard in Connecticut for 70 years, and The Wiener Library itself, he started to piece together what grandfather Morris had been up to in the USA, and ultimately what befell Morris's brothers and sisters in Poland and France. But why did he spend so much time and effort trying to find out?
Vienna, old National Library
great place with lots of history, you can even small the centuries in there
Michael Storper 48hills Part One
Why Scott Wiener’s SB 50 Will Not Get Us Affordable Housing
Dr. Michael Storper is a Distinguished Professor of Regional and International Development in Urban Planning; Director, Global Public Affairs at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Michael Storper received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands in 2008. He was elected to the British Academy in 2012 and received the Regional Studies Association’s award for overall achievement as well as the Sir Peter Hall Award in the House of Commons in 2012. In 2014 Storper was named one of the “World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds” by Thomson Reuters. He holds Ph.D. in Geography from University of California, Berkeley.
Rachel Pistol: Jewish refugees in Britain: Internment of ‘enemy aliens’ during the Second World War
This talk by Rachel Pistol explained the policy of Second World War internment in Britain, life in the camps, and the experiences and memories of former internees. In partnership with the Kitchener Descendants Group.
With the outbreak of war in 1939, all Germans and Austrians resident in Britain became ‘enemy aliens’. The British government instituted a series of tribunals in order to ascertain which enemy aliens were ‘dangerous’ and which were refugees. Many families will have seen the archived tribunal cards, headed 'Exemption from Internment'. With the swift fall of France and the Low Countries in May 1940, public hysteria led to calls for mass internment in case there was a ‘Fifth Column’ of foreign spies and saboteurs. However, the vast majority of those interned in Britain during the War were refugees who had fled religious or political persecution before the war. Arrested by the police, sent to hastily constructed transit camps at racecourses, unfinished housing estates, or in one case an abandoned factory, and then moved to the Isle of Man, Australia, or Canada, internment was a traumatic experience for those involved. Additionally, those who wanted to fight against Nazism were initially denied this opportunity, leading to much frustration, as well as unnecessary hardships caused to individuals and families already suffering displacement because of Nazism. Almost as soon as the policy of mass internment began, it was decided to reverse the policy because of the numbers of refugees involved. Campaigns by refugee charities, prominent MPs, and public discovery of the most controversial aspect of internment – transport abroad – led to the start of the release process. Release was often slowed by bureaucracy and was significantly more challenging for those internees who had been deported to Canada and Australia. Yet, despite all these trials and tribulations, the internees made the most of their situations and created thriving environments despite their lack of resources.
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Dr Beth B Cohen: Starting Over: Reconstituted Jewish Families After the Holocaust
To mark the week of Holocaust Memorial Day 2017, The Wiener Library hosted a special lecture by Dr Beth Cohen to reflect on the theme of ‘How can life go on?’
In the postwar Displaced Persons camps, the birth rate of Jewish babies born to survivors was historically high. While this was true, Cohen provides an alternative narrative to the post-Holocaust picture of survivors’ renewal. She argues that many postwar Jewish families were built on the remnants of ruptured ones: widowed parents who remarried and became blended families of survivors that included children born before or during the war. What did this mean to child survivors who found themselves in new reconfigured groups composed of two-generations of survivors now under one roof? Synthesizing oral testimonies and archival documents, Cohen’s talk highlights the complexity and long-lasting repercussions of rebuilt families from the children’s perspective.
Recording from the event held on 25 January 2017, with an introduction by the Mayor of Camden, Councillor Nadia Shah:
Naomi Levy: The Shifting Policy of British Internment and Deportation, 1939-1940
Why were German and Austrian Jewish refugees interned when they arrived in the UK? Why were so many deported out of the country?
In this joint event with the Second Generation Network, Naomi Levy, whose German-born father, then Hermann Gutmann, was deported to Australia on HMT Dunera, spoke about his experience of internment there based on his 1941 diary.
Please note that this event also featured Roger Kershaw from The National Archives, who has written extensively on the subjects of immigration, emigration and aliens. If you would like to access the full talk please contact The Wiener Library directly on 020 7636 7247 or info@wienerlibrary.co.uk.
Refugees: In Our Eyes
The refugee crisis seen through the eyes of a group of teenagers from London as they encounter activists, artists and those directly involved. Featuring Syrian refugee and activist Ahmad al-Rashid, AOI World Illustration award winner Olivier Kugler, the Jewish Museum, ice&fire theatre and campaigner Onjali Rauf who has been organizing aid to the Calais Camp with her charity Making Herstory.
The film was produced on a weeklong film workshop at Camden Summer University and has been screened at the British Museum, the British Library, the October Gallery and the Wiener Library.
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Data Debate: Data and Inequality
A recording of the Data Debate that took place on 28 June 2018. Featuring:
Robert Berkeley Broadcasting Editor at BlackOut UK.
Catherine Mayer Writer, activist, speaker, consultant and the co-founder and President of the Women's Equality Party.
Dr. Karen Salt: Assistant Professor in Transnational American Studies at Nottingham University.
Dr. Sandra Wachter: Lawyer, Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute and Research Fellow in Data Ethics, AI, robotics and Internet Regulation/cyber-security at the Oxford Internet Institute.
Hetan Shah: Executive Director of the Royal Statistical Society and visiting professor at the Policy Institute, Kings College London.
Chaired by Timandra Harkness