Our series of Holocaust family history research events continues next month in Cardiff!

Find out more about the #RecoveryandRepair programme, and how you may be able to benefit from the International Tracing Service Digital Archive, here: bit.ly/4ai89I9

‘These women survived genocide only to face rejection at home’ - from curator Dr Becky Jinks RHUL Holocaust Research Institute Read new coverage Newsweek of our current exhibition Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership Armenian Institute Free Yezidi Foundation

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In case you missed it!

Last week we welcomed Janine Holc to discuss her new book, The Weavers of Trautenau: Jewish Female Forced Labor in the Holocaust.

Catch up on the recording via @youtube now: bit.ly/3QfpOrX

'The shoes, said Kwiatkowski, are of particular resonance in an age of increasing Holocaust denial: “The past is not the past, it’s the present. Ignoring the artefacts of genocide is a scandal and this scandal radiates”.' bit.ly/3UwllDK Kate Connolly The Guardian

On the 109th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, we staged a moving reading of the play, Sorrow is Turned into Joy, performed by women Armenian survivors in 1924, listening to their voices 100 years later. With gratitude to the actors and Armenian Institute RHUL Holocaust Research Institute Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership

#OnThisDay in 1914 Jan Karski, a Polish resistance-fighter and diplomat during WWII, was born

He is celebrated for delivering evidence of the murder of Jews to the Allies, reporting on Nazi atrocities in the Warsaw ghetto and deportations of Jews to killing centres

On 24 April Armenians commemorate the genocide of 1915. On that date hundreds of Armenian intellectuals, political and religious figures were arrested

Our exhibition, Genocidal Captivity, explores the genocide through the stories of the women who survived bit.ly/49iVvYi

Join us next week for what promises to be a fascinating discussion on archiving and making accessible extremely sensitive materials - sign up below ⬇️

On 24 April Armenians commemorate the genocide of 1915. On that date hundreds of Armenian intellectuals, political and religious figures were arrested

Our exhibition, Genocidal Captivity, explores the genocide through the stories of the women who survived bit.ly/49iVvYi

📢 We're hiring!

As one of the Library’s most public-facing roles, this would suit a candidate with an interest in User Experience to positively change the way our reading room operations support access to Britain’s foremost Holocaust collection bit.ly/2TZkBKq

Join us next week for a fascinating online panel event: Archiving ISIS wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-…

'We marched through the burning ghetto. When I asked where we were going I was told 'to the cemetery where you will be shot'.'

Aron Bard recalled the aftermath of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising when he gave his eyewitness testimony to the Library in June 1959 bit.ly/3VS4Pil

📢 New exhibition event!

On 2 May we welcome an expert panel to discuss how primary source documentation related to the #IslamicState #ISIS has been collected, archived and made accessible for research, intelligence and other purposes bit.ly/3IRiyya

The Library would like to wish all of our friends, supporters and followers a peaceful #Pesach .

This photograph from our collections shows the Gurfein family attending a #Passover dinner on 14 April 1949 at the Landsberg Displaced Persons camp bit.ly/2Zz4vHF

On 17 May 2024, as part of the travelling exhibition of 'Fate Unknown', the The Wiener Holocaust Library will host a 'Recovery and Repair: Family History Research' workshop using the International Tracing Service in Glamorgan Archives Clos Parc Morgannwg, Cardiff.

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'We marched through the burning ghetto. When I asked where we were going I was told 'to the cemetery where you will be shot'.'

Aron Bard recalled the aftermath of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising when he gave his eyewitness testimony to the Library in June 1959 bit.ly/3VS4Pil