The Wiener Library collects material related to the Holocaust, its causes and legacies. 
It attempts to collect comprehensively in the following areas:

• Historiography and documentation of the Holocaust
• Jewish refugees and exiles in Great Britain, Kindertransport
• Resistance against the racial persecution of Jews by Nazis and collaborators.
  
  
  

  The Reading Room at the Wiener Library

At a more selective level, the Library collects material in the following areas:

• Modern Central European Jewish history
• The rise and fall of Nazi Germany
• War crimes and war crimes trials
• Remembrance, and confronting the Nazi past
• Revisionist and Holocaust denial literature
• Antisemitism
• Comparative Genocide studies.

The Library has holdings of approximately 65,000 items searchable online.
It is a multi-language collection with most items in German and English.
Parts of the collections are on microfilm.
Up to one third of the collection contains pre-war material, and we continue actively to add to the collection and search for rare material from all over the world.

The following materials of the collection are searchable online:

• Books and pamphlets
• Unpublished memoirs
• Documents by donors
• Periodicals
• Photographs