Current and upcoming exhibitions
The Blumenfeld Family: An International Tracing Service Case Study
This exhibition is a case study of the Blumenfeld family, the owners of one of the most famous German-Jewish travelling circuses of the 20th century, passed down through generations following its first tour in 1811. The circus was truly a family affair, with mother Rosa working as co-director with her son Fritz, eldest son Alex performing dressage on his famous horse ‘Puppchen’ and Willy Blumenfeld performing as ‘Kucki the Clown’.
A Chance to Breathe: Photographs by Rohingya Refugees in Cox’s Bazar Camps
The Wiener Holocaust Library’s new exhibition showcases the award-winning photography of Omal Khair, Dil Kayas and Azimul Hasan, three survivors of the Rohingya genocide. Their works provide a rich and intimate look at Rohingya life in the refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, offering a rare glimpse into the daily lives of Rohingya refugees and genocide survivors.
Traces of Belsen
The traces remaining of the Prisoner of War and Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen are faint, but this new exhibition uncovers evidence of the camp from records in our archive, testimonies, photographs and archaeological digs, revealing the history of the camp beyond the well-known story of its liberation by British Forces.
Upcoming events
Online Book Talk – A Nation of Refugees: Russia’s Jews in WWI, with Polly Zavadivker
A Nation of Refugees explores how World War I transformed the lives of East European Jews in ways that were second only to the Holocaust in their magnitude. It examines the contradictory forces that emerged within a collapsing empire at war, including state violence and forced migration, as well as the transformation of Russia’s Jewish civil society through an empire-wide humanitarian campaign to rescue the “nation of refugees,” whose plight embodied that of the Jewish nation itself.
Book Talk: The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz, with Anne Sebba and Lord Daniel Finkelstein
In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. In The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz Anne Sebba traces these tangled questions of deep moral complexity with sensitivity and care, drawing on meticulous archival research and exclusive first-hand accounts to tell the full and astonishing story of the orchestra, its members and the response of other prisoners for the first time.
Public lecture and musical performance: Revealing suppressed culture – Lost histories in the archives of The Wiener Holocaust Library
An event hosted with the Reawakening Suppressed Music project. Dr Barbara Warnock will explore some of the traces and records of culture suppressed during the Nazi era that are contained in the Library’s extensive archives. Conductor Shelley Katz joined by soprano Adaya Peled will present orchestral works by Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, Robert (Bob) Hanf, Robert Kahn and Hans Krieg.
Hybrid Exhibition Event: The Boy Who Didn’t Want to Die, with Peter Lantos
An exhibition event held as part of the Traces of Belsen series. Join us for an evening talk by Peter Lantos, a survivor of Belsen camps and writer of several books about his experiences.
Exhibition Online Talk: Goldie Morgentaler discusses the life and work of her mother, Chava Rosenfarb
Held as part of the Traces of Belsen Exhibition Event series. In this talk Goldie Morgentaler will be discussing the work of her mother, Belsen survivor and Yiddish author, Chava Rosenfarb.
