Current and upcoming exhibitions
Nazi Slave Labour: Perpetrators and Victims
Between 1939 and 1945, 20 million individuals were exploited as slave and forced labourers by the Nazi regime. This exhibition will explore how perpetrators profited off and exploited slave labourers, alongside the first-hand stories of the victims.
Life and death in Saharan Vichy labour camps
This exhibition sheds light on lesser-known Vichy forced labour camps in North Africa, examining the experiences of the German-Jewish men who found themselves imprisoned in these spaces.
Upcoming events
Book Talk and Special Exhibition – The Emperor of Atlantis or The Refusal of Death Facsimile, with Heidy Zimmermann and Jeremy Adler
Join us for an evening discussing the material history of Viktor Ullmann and Peter Kien's ‘The Emperor of Atlantis.' This new facsimile brings together the surviving sources and makes them accessible in the highest print quality. The exceptional book and its content will be presented by the editor of the facsimile, Heidy Zimmerman, and the son of the man responsible for the sources' survival, Jeremy Adler.
Exhibition Talk – Echoes from Auschwitz: Jewish child forced labourers and the Holocaust, by Johannes-Dieter Steinert
Join us for a special presentation by Professor Johannes-Dieter Steinert highlighting aspects of our newest exhibition Nazi Slave Labour: Perpetrators and Victims.
Playwright Talk and Reading: The Banality of Evil, Hannah Arendt, France 1940, with Julia Pascal
Join us as we hear from Dramatist and former Writer in Residence at the Wiener Holocaust Library Julia Pascal about her new play The Banality of Evil, running at the Arcola Theatre 7 October-7 November.
Book Talk – Paper Tombs: Post-Holocaust Memorial Books and Prewar Jewish Life, with Jennifer Rich
In the years after the Holocaust, survivors created yizker bikher — memorial books dedicated to the towns and communities that had been destroyed. In her book, Paper Tombs: Post-Holocaust Memorial Books and Prewar Jewish Life, Jennifer Rich explores these extraordinary works of collective memory.
Book Launch and Special Exhibition – Dress in Auschwitz: Clothing and Survival in the Holocaust, with Sofia Pantouvaki
The Wiener Holocaust Library is pleased to host the London launch of Dress in Auschwitz: Clothing and Survival in the Holocaust by Dr Sofia Pantouvaki, recently published by Bloomsbury. Dr Pantouvaki will be in conversation with Dr Aileen Ribeiro, Dr Lisa Peschel, and Dr Flavia Loscialpo.
