Governance & Finances

Finances

The Wiener Holocaust Library is a non-profit making company limited by guarantee. Our financial statements are available below:

Governance

Joint Presidents

  • Professor Alan Montefiore
  • Mr Anthony Spiro OBE

Board of Trustees

  • Mr Anthony Landes (Chair)

    Anthony has been touched by the Holocaust on both sides of his family. On his paternal side, he is a son of a refugee who escaped Vienna in September 1939 and on his maternal side, his grandfather actively saved Jews from the horrors of the Holocaust from his base in Sweden. Anthony is a lawyer by background having previously been a partner at the law firm Fieldfisher specialising in Intellectual Property Law.

    In 1996, Anthony moved to Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) where he ran the Legal and Commercial Department in the UK. In 2000, Anthony became the Risk Partner for Deloitte’s Consulting business across EMEAI and sat on the Deloitte Consulting Executive from June 2000 until May 2014.

    Since leaving Deloitte, Anthony has held a number of Board Non Executive Director roles and is involved in other charitable institutions, including being Chair of Just For Kids Law (a youth justice charity).

  • Ms Catherine Colloms

    Catherine’s maternal family, the Oppenheimers, were originally from Frankfurt, Germany. Growing up with stories about the war led her to study history and start her career as a diplomat specialising in post-conflict. She was instrumental in the process to determine Kosovo’s final status and worked as High Representative Paddy Ashdown’s Personal Political Adviser in Bosnia. She is a reputation and crisis expert and currently Director of Corporate Affairs and Brand for Openreach, the national broadband network. She is also Chair of a charity delivering primary healthcare in Rwanda and Ghana.

  • Mr Arend Dikkers (Treasurer)

    Arend, a Dutch national, was a Managing Director at Salomon Brothers / Citigroup in Public Equities as well as in Private Equity M&A. Previously he worked at Drexel Burnham in New York and Credit Suisse First Boston in London and later was Head of Private Equity Business Development at ABN-AMRO/RBS. Mr Dikkers was Senior Portfolio Manager and Head of European Research at WP Stewart & Co in London managing Pan-European funds. He held non-executive director positions at hedge funds.

    Arend is Chair of a Dutch non-profit, on the investment committee of a UK Social Welfare Charity and formerly Chair of a Theatre Production company. He is co-author of “Moritz Nussbaum, Anatom 1850-1915” published by the University of Bonn (DE). Arend holds a Master in Business Administration (MBA) and Master in International Affairs (MIA) from Columbia University in New York. Arend is married with three adult children and is fluent in Dutch, French and near fluent in German.

  • Mr Jonathan Glazer

    After completing art school and a degree in Theatre Design at Trent Polytechnic,Jonathan Glazer landed a job making film trailers. This led to music videos, TV commercials and art projects.

    Glazer’s feature directing debut was Sexy Beast in 2000. He went on to co-write and direct Birth in 2004, Under the Skin in 2014, and wrote and is directing The Zone of Interest which is in production.

  • Mr Frank Harding

    Frank is the son of refugees from Berlin who arrived in the UK in 1936; he was born in 1937. He is married and has children and grandchildren.

    He trained in London as a Chartered Accountant with Thomson McLintock & Co, qualified in 1960, and remained with that firm, which became part of KPMG, throughout his career. He was a general partner, carrying out audit and advisory work for corporate clients, both national and international. He was a member of the Councils of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He represented the UK profession on the Council of the European Union of Accountants and latterly on that of the international body, becoming President of the International Federation of Accountants in 1997.

    Following his retirement from practice, Frank has been the chairman and/or a director of a listed company and of a handful of other companies. He has been and remains a trustee of a small number of charities, including the Association of Jewish Refugees.

  • Mr Ian Haworth

    Ian has had a long career as a global creative leader in the advertising and communications world and is a passionate believer in the power of communication to inform, educate and unify people to work together for a better world.

    From starting his career as a tea boy and ending up as chairman of one of the world’s largest creative advertising networks Ian has created powerful communication across multiple cultures and countries around the world.

    He now runs his own creative consultancy, based in London but still can’t resist working with clients all around the world.

  • Ms Lizzie Marx

    Lizzie is an Art Historian at the University of Cambridge, where she is completing her PhD in seventeenth-century Dutch art. She has collaborated on research and exhibition projects at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and the Mauritshuis, The Hague. As all four of Lizzie’s grandparents were refugees from Germany and Hungary, she was always aware of the journeys that brought her family to England, and the stories of those who perished.

    Lizzie first encountered The Wiener Holocaust Library as an undergraduate when she was carrying out dissertation research, only to find out later that her grandfather, Theo Marx, had served on the Board in the 1980s. Before joining the Board of Trustees in 2018, Lizzie volunteered at the Library on the formation and research of London 1938: Defending ‘Degenerate’ German Art (June – September 2018), an exhibition in partnership with the Liebermann-Villa, Wannsee. As Trustee, Lizzie is especially committed to preserving the resonance of the Holocaust and the Library’s collections for the future.

  • Professor Philip Spencer

    Philip Spencer is Emeritus Professor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Kingston University, where he taught for many years. He is also a Visiting Professor in Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London. At Kingston, he set up and was the director of the Helen Bamber Centre for the Study of Right, Conflict and Mass Violence, and also set up and directed the first European-wide Masters programme on Genocide and Human Rights.  He is a founder member of the European Sociological Association network on Antisemitism, the first of its kind. He is a member of the UK Holocaust Memorial Advisory Board.

    He is the author of a number of works on antisemitism, genocide, the Holocaust, human rights and nationalism, including Antisemitism and the Left; on the return of the Jewish Question (with Robert Fine), Manchester University Press, 2017;  Genocide since 1945 , Routledge, 2102; and Nations and Nationalism, Edinburgh University Press, 2006;  and Nationalism : a crucial Introduction (with Howard Wollman), Sage 2002.

    He is currently writing a new book on the gravity of genocide.

  • Dr Zoë Waxman

    Dr Zoë Waxman is lecturer in Modern Jewish History at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Writing the Holocaust: memory, testimony, representation (2006), Anne Frank (2015), and Women in the Holocaust: A Feminist History of the Holocaust (2017), as well as numerous articles relating to the Holocaust and genocide. A board member of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation and a member of the academic advisory board for the Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust galleries.

  • Mr Andreas Wesemann

    Andreas Wesemann is an investment banker in London who grew up in Vienna and has lived in the UK for ca 30 years. His family background is not untypical for Central Europe, combining Jewish and Protestant, Austrian, German and Swedish histories. He is the co-founder of two free schools in London and has published two books, including one about Leopold Schwarzschild, a leading publisher and writer in the inter-war period.

 
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