Current and upcoming exhibitions
Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century
Our new exhibition surveys the life and career of Jewish émigré sculptor Fred Kormis and reunites some of the most important of his diverse works, from the woodcut prints he produced in a Prisoner of War camp, to the medallions he made of leading figures in British life, and the first memorial in Britain to the victims of Nazi concentration camps.
Upcoming events
Open House Festival 2024: Weekend Opening at the Library
We are delighted to announce that the Library is participating in this year’s Open House Festival. The Open House Festival offers an opportunity for people to visit and gain access to a significant number of buildings, landscapes and neighbourhoods across London. As the world’s oldest Holocaust archive and Britain’s largest, this event gives the opportunity for visitors to enter and explore the Library and its collections.
Book Talk: Hitler’s People, Richard J. Evans
Who were the Nazis? What happened to their moral compass? Join us for a discussion of a new biographical study of the lives and personalities of the leaders and functionaries of the Nazi regime, which offers a new way to understand the atrocities that followed.
Virtual Teacher Talk on the Nazi Police/ Terror State
As well as allowing KS3 teachers to add greater depth to their lessons on Nazi Germany, this talk will enable teachers to better guide their GCSE and A Level students through exploring issues such as the ways were the lives of the German people affected by the Nazi police state, and how and why the Nazis were able to create a police state in the years 1933–39.
Recovery & Repair: Supporting Jewish Family Histories of the Holocaust in Britain, with Holocaust Centre North
Following our successful visit to Holocaust Centre North in November 2022, a team from the Wiener Holocaust Library is returning to Huddersfield to deliver another in-person event, aimed at helping people learn how best to look after their family history.
Screening and panel discussion – The Nervous State: The Internalisation of the International crisis, 1938
Join us for a preview screening of Nicola Baldwin’s short film The Nervous State hosted by Julie V. Gottlieb, Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield. The film showing will be followed by a discussion about dramatising history, the film’s message to the present, and the resonances between the late 1930s and our own moment of ‘permacrisis’.
