Exiled Writers Ink and The Wiener Library present: “I’m not going back”: A Refugee Week writing workshop

Lynette Craig

Refugee Week 2013 This workshop will use the resources of The Wiener Library as inspiration for creative writing, including stories and poems which aim to convey what it is like to be an...

Book launch: 'Ruta's Closet'

Keith Morgan

Ruta’s Closet is the harrowing and astonishing true story of how a Lithuanian Jewish family fought to escape the deadly clutches of Hitler’s Final Solution. The ordeal of the Kron family...

The Making of 'The Last Boat'

Alan Reich

A Filmmaker's Journey to Tell the Story of the Last Kindertransport Boat from Poland Filmmaker Alan Reich joins us to discuss his latest project, The Last Boat, which tells the story of the...

Wiener Library Family History Day

The Wiener Library offers unparalleled resources for researching family histories connected to the Holocaust. This special Open Day is an ideal place to start learning about the impact of the...

Rediscovering Piotr Rawicz’s Holocaust novel 'Blood from the Sky'

The Wiener Library is pleased to be hosting the UK launch of a new book co-edited by Anny Dayan Rosenman and Fransiska Louwagie. Un ciel de sang et de cendres: Piotr Rawicz et la solitude du...

FilmTalk: Once Upon a Time in Italy

Professor Sir Christopher Frayling

Sergio Leone's massive gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America (1984) was the result of fifteen years of preparation. It told of the rise and fall of a gang of Jewish hoodlums from the Lower...

Seminar: Introduction to Holocaust Studies through the Records of the International Tracing Service Collection at the Wiener Library

The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies

The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide, in partnership with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (CAHS), is pleased to...

FilmTalk: Imagining Multicultural London - Containment and Excess in 'Snatch'

Dr Rachel Garfield (University of Reading)

Snatch is a comic book gangster film that can be seen to represent the backlash against perceived notions of political correctness in what is effectively a public schoolboy fantasy of working class...