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Our research team which works on the remarkable International Tracing Service Archive is visiting Windermere Library to offer a free event, exploring this complicated history and how the search for the missing continues. Join us on 11 July with the Lake District Holocaust Project:

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‘Everyone was so occupied that there was no time, nor energy, nor sense for possible friendships. One was far too undernourished and exhausted…’ Elsa Kafka was deported from Prague to Łódź in October 1941 and described her experiences of forced labour there to Library researchers in the 1950s..

Our latest exhibition, Nazi Slave Labour: Perpetrators & Victims, is open to the public now. We're open Monday to Friday, 10am - 5pm, with no need to book tickets in advance. All of our public exhibitions and events are free and open to all. Plan your visit: buff.ly/idvhmQO

In his eyewitness testimony, Jacob Jacobohn described life in Theresienstadt "A number of football teams trained and played in the grounds of the Dresden Barracks... for the fans of each team it was an issue of major importance whether the cooks’ or the electricians’ team had won" buff.ly/TLQep8K

While you may not expect to find much material relating to football in our archive, researchers certainly won't emerge empty handed... In the family papers collection of Ruth Ucko are photographs of a trip to see a friendly between Germany and Poland in Warsaw in 1934 buff.ly/pXc2s0f

In the Gordon family papers collection, loose photos which belonged to Alfred Gordon taken between 1921-1938 show holidays and trips he took as a young man, as well as group photos of his gymnastics, swimming and football teams buff.ly/h4PPMJk

Happening next week! Don't miss a fascinating free evening talk about the experience of Nazi slave labourers on the Channel Islands Tickets available here: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibi...

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The Wiener Holocaust Library

Join us for a special presentation by Dr Gilly Carr highlighting aspects of our newest exhibition Nazi Slave Labour: Perpetrators and Victims.

Exhibition Talk - A Proximity to Violence: What Channel Islands’ labourers experienced in Alderney, by Gilly Carr - The Wiener Holocaust Library

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A team from the Wiener Holocaust Library is visiting Windermere Library to offer a free event, exploring this complicated history and how the search for the missing continues today. Join us for this…

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Recovery and Repair: The Search for the Missing After the Holocaust, one-day event at Windermere Library - The Wiener Holocaust Library

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Based in London, The Wiener Holocaust Library is the world’s oldest and Britain’s largest collection of original archival material on pre-war Jewish life, the Nazi era and the Holocaust.

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Eyewitness account by Jacob Jacobohn, Berlin, of Theresienstadt

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The 8,000 slave labourers who passed through Alderney during the course of the war were witnesses to much of what was happening on the island while it was in the hands of German forces. Find out more about their experiences at an evening talk by Prof Gilly Carr

Join us for a special presentation by Dr Gilly Carr highlighting aspects of our newest exhibition Nazi Slave Labour: Perpetrators and Victims.

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Exhibition Talk - A Proximity to Violence: What Channel Islands’ labourers experienced in Alderney, by Gilly Carr - The Wiener Holocaust Library

The Wiener Holocaust Library