Since its foundation, the Wiener Library has gathered more than 10,000 images For decades this unique collection has been used as a source to illustrate numerous books, press articles and TV documentaries. Thanks to the generosity of donors, the collection is still growing.

If you would like to make an appointment with our photo archivist to search the archive, please use our contact form.

The Online Photo Archive

In order to preserve our original prints we are now digitising our collection. This is also the first step towards making our pictures accessible through this website. As the database is constantly being added to, you have the opportunity to access a growing selection of images through our Photo Archive Search page.

The collection's main subjects

• Jewish cultural and everyday life in Germany
  and Europe before the Holocaust
• Anti-Semitism, discrimination and persecution of Jews
  before and after 1933
• Refugees and emigration
• The Kindertransports - The rescue of German, Austrian and
  Czech Jewish children to Britain in 1938/39
• The Holocaust in Germany and in German-occupied Europe

Also covered are

• The Weimar Republic 1918-1933 and the rise of
  the Nazi movement
• Politics, economy, and culture in Nazi Germany
• The Nazi party, SA and SS
• Resistance against Nazi rule
• The post-war trials of Nazi war criminals
• Jews in the post-war World
• Jewish cemeteries and synagogues in Germany and Europe
• Monuments and memorials commemorating
  the Holocaust all over Europe

Special collections

• Portraits of eminent and of notorious people
  of 20th century European history, including a large
  collection of German military personnel portraits
• The Ludwig Neumann and the Loewenstein collections.
  These are exemplary biographies documented in photographs
  of Jews who were forced to emigrate from Germany
  in the 1930s and had to rebuild their lives in new homelands
• The work of the Jewish Relief Units in post-war Europe.
  The JRU ran Displaced Persons camps, hospitals,
  children's homes and schools, homes for the elderly
  and trade schools for Jewish Holocaust survivors

Fees, Formats 
and Reproduction rights

Copies of our pictures are supplied as digital images by email or on CD-ROM by mail. Supply of images by email or on disc is £5 per image. Our general service fee if pictures are used commercially is £45 per order.

Some parts of our collection are in the public domain and therefore no fees for reproduction rights for these images are charged. For the licence to reproduce pictures for which the Wiener Library holds the copyright we charge depending on the kind of publication - in books, newspapers and journals, film and TV, exhibitions, or on websites.

The permission for non-commercial reproduction of pictures copyrighted by the Wiener Library is granted free of charge.

PDF of complete fee structure for various image uses

Terms & conditions of use

All pictures are supplied on condition that they may not be used or altered in a way that would trivialise, sensationalise or demean the subject portrayed. They may not be altered without the prior written consent of the Library.

On publication of works featuring images from our collection the Wiener Library is to be credited. Also on publication or broadcast the Library must be provided with one complimentary copy of the work featuring our pictures.

PDF of Terms and Conditions of Business