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.

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

• Contemporary 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 50,000 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• Unpublished memoirs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
• Multi-media resources
• Periodicals.