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.
J’accuse! Press, Polemic and the Dreyfus Affair
Coming this autumn, a new free exhibition will examine the print culture that emerged in response to the Dreyfus Affair, from Captain Dreyfus’s arrest in 1894 to his eventual exoneration in 1906. It seeks to explain how a relatively ordinary man became caught up in an immense miscarriage of justice, which transformed into one of the first major mass media moments.
Upcoming events
Exhibition and Book Talk: Once the Deed is Done, Rachel Seiffert in conversation with Dr Christine Schmidt
Join Booker nominated novelist Rachel Seiffert in conversation with Wiener Holocaust Library Co-Director Dr Christine Schmidt as they discuss the Library’s current exhibition Nazi Forced Labour: Perpetrators and Victims and Seiffert’s latest novel, Once the Deed is Done, shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2026.
Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea – Reconstructing a Sense of ‘Home’: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Yorkshire, with Hannah Buckley
What did it mean to make a 'home' after the Holocaust? This presentation draws on my wider research into the postwar lives of Holocaust survivors in Yorkshire to explore home not simply as a place of settlement, but as an emotional process shaped by relationships, community, memory and belonging.
Exhibition Talk: Perpetrator & Victim, by Photographer Mike Stone
In Perpetrator & Victim, photographer Mike Stone confronts the uneasy entanglement between the machinery of Nazi persecution and the materials still embedded in contemporary image-making. This event offers a rare opportunity not only to hear the stories behind the work, but to handle a working portfolio of prints that brings the material history of the images into the room, including survivor portraits never previously exhibited.
Book Talk – Art Restoration under the Nazi Regime: Revelation and Concealment, by Dr Morwenna Blewett
In this talk, Dr Morwenna Blewett will discuss her new book, the first in-depth study of the restoration and conservation field in the National Socialist era.
Book Talk: In Search of the Perfect Romanian, Professor Marius Turda in Conversation with Professor Dan Stone
Join us as we hear from author Professor Marius Turda on his new book In Search of the Perfect Romanian: National Specificity, Racial Degeneration, and Social Selection in Modern Romania in conversation with Professor Dan Stone.
