"The Holocaust was not only perpetuated by ideologues but also carried out through bureaucratic means.”
Our acting Co-Director @ceschmidt.bsky.social spoke to @nytimes.com for this fascinating feature out today ➡️ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/w...
Our current exhibition, Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust, is closing in one week!
Visit Monday - Friday, 10am - 5pm to see this fascinating display including never before seen sources from our archive.
Last night Professor Mary Fulbrook delivered the 6th Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture. She spoke to a packed audience about her research into the communities and groups who refused to look the other way during the Holocaust... wienerholocaustlibrary.org/2026/05/19/a...
This week our Co-Director @ceschmidt.bsky.social is in Vilnius at the Samuel Bak Museum. A panel of international experts discussed how we talk about Jewish heritage and the Holocaust today, engaging audiences, education, and the challenges of working with archives.
www.jmuseum.lt/naujienos/sa...
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The Wiener Holocaust Library
Thrilled and honoured to be taking up this post together with Barbara. We’re looking forward to leading @wienerlibrary.bsky.social through its next, exciting chapter! With many thanks to our Trustees, staff and friends for their support and confidence in us.
Professor Mary Fulbrook delivered this year's Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture, exploring experiences of hiding and help during the Holocaust across Europe.
Bookbinders and restorers in the 1930s and ’40s helped the Nazi regime create a database that was used to persecute and kill Jews and others who were deemed racially impure, a British researcher has found.
The Wiener Holocaust Library
Christine Schmidt explaining things to the NYT! @ceschmidt.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/w...
Jürgen Habermas ist heute im Alter von 96 Jahren in Starnberg verstorben.
Honoured and delighted to have launched our new edited volume, Older Jews and the Holocaust, this week @lbilondon.bsky.social! With huge gratitude to them, especially Dr Magda Wrobel and @joannasliwa24.bsky.social @claims-conference.bsky.social
for all their work planning this terrific event!
