The Wiener Holocaust Library
@wienerlibrary.bsky.social
The world's oldest Holocaust archive and Britain's largest collection on the Nazi era.
Website: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org
Digital Archive: www.whlcollections.org
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Website: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org
Digital Archive: www.whlcollections.org
Donate: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/support-our-work/donate/
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📢 Work with us!
We are seeking an enthusiastic Engagement and Community Outreach Officer to work with us on engaging core and new audiences, to promote the Library and build archival research and digital skills amongst our audiences.
➡ £32,000p/a
➡ Closes 12 Jan 2026
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We are seeking an enthusiastic Engagement and Community Outreach Officer to work with us on engaging core and new audiences, to promote the Library and build archival research and digital skills amongst our audiences.
➡ £32,000p/a
➡ Closes 12 Jan 2026
Apply 🔗 buff.ly/UCxtOIY
📣 Forthcoming book talk!
25 March, 6:30 - 8pm
The @hgrporg.bsky.social is delighted to host Prof Alan Kramer in conversation with Prof Dan Stone about his new work, Concentration Camps: A Global History, a ‘global and comprehensive history of a modern institution of inhumanity.’
25 March, 6:30 - 8pm
The @hgrporg.bsky.social is delighted to host Prof Alan Kramer in conversation with Prof Dan Stone about his new work, Concentration Camps: A Global History, a ‘global and comprehensive history of a modern institution of inhumanity.’
Book Talk - Concentration Camps: A Global History, Alan Kramer in conversation with Dan Stone - The Wiener Holocaust Library
The Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership is delighted to host Professor Alan Kramer in conversation with Professor Dan Stone about Professor Kramer’s new book: Concentration Camps: A Global…
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January 7, 2026 at 4:09 PM
📣 Forthcoming book talk!
25 March, 6:30 - 8pm
The @hgrporg.bsky.social is delighted to host Prof Alan Kramer in conversation with Prof Dan Stone about his new work, Concentration Camps: A Global History, a ‘global and comprehensive history of a modern institution of inhumanity.’
25 March, 6:30 - 8pm
The @hgrporg.bsky.social is delighted to host Prof Alan Kramer in conversation with Prof Dan Stone about his new work, Concentration Camps: A Global History, a ‘global and comprehensive history of a modern institution of inhumanity.’
These photos from our collection were taken by Berthold Birnbach. They document the flight of people from the Sudetenland after its accordance to Nazi Germany in autumn 1938...
January 7, 2026 at 2:48 PM
These photos from our collection were taken by Berthold Birnbach. They document the flight of people from the Sudetenland after its accordance to Nazi Germany in autumn 1938...
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📣 Forthcoming Book Talk!
📍25 Feb, 6:30pm
In this talk, Sasha Senderovich will discuss how works by Soviet Jewish writers, and the act of translating them, open new ways of thinking about Holocaust literature, Soviet Jewish history, and the long, uneven afterlives of mass violence
📍25 Feb, 6:30pm
In this talk, Sasha Senderovich will discuss how works by Soviet Jewish writers, and the act of translating them, open new ways of thinking about Holocaust literature, Soviet Jewish history, and the long, uneven afterlives of mass violence
Book Talk - In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union - The Wiener Holocaust Library
The short fiction collected in In the Shadow of the Holocaust, translated by Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav, recovers a range of compelling voices that had been scarcely known or translated,…
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January 6, 2026 at 9:28 AM
📣 Forthcoming Book Talk!
📍25 Feb, 6:30pm
In this talk, Sasha Senderovich will discuss how works by Soviet Jewish writers, and the act of translating them, open new ways of thinking about Holocaust literature, Soviet Jewish history, and the long, uneven afterlives of mass violence
📍25 Feb, 6:30pm
In this talk, Sasha Senderovich will discuss how works by Soviet Jewish writers, and the act of translating them, open new ways of thinking about Holocaust literature, Soviet Jewish history, and the long, uneven afterlives of mass violence
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📜 Report of the Jewish Community of Vienna, January– February 1939
This report gives an indication of the impoverishment that Jews in Vienna were experiencing by 1939. The graph shows the huge and very rapid rise in the use of the Jewish Community of Vienna’s soup kitchen in early 1939...
This report gives an indication of the impoverishment that Jews in Vienna were experiencing by 1939. The graph shows the huge and very rapid rise in the use of the Jewish Community of Vienna’s soup kitchen in early 1939...
January 6, 2026 at 2:48 PM
📜 Report of the Jewish Community of Vienna, January– February 1939
This report gives an indication of the impoverishment that Jews in Vienna were experiencing by 1939. The graph shows the huge and very rapid rise in the use of the Jewish Community of Vienna’s soup kitchen in early 1939...
This report gives an indication of the impoverishment that Jews in Vienna were experiencing by 1939. The graph shows the huge and very rapid rise in the use of the Jewish Community of Vienna’s soup kitchen in early 1939...
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📣 Join us next month for the launch of the RIBA Refugee Committee online database.
A result of groundbreaking research, the database will include entries for each one of the individual architects who escaped to the UK from Nazi-occupied Europe, whatever their fate or their stature
A result of groundbreaking research, the database will include entries for each one of the individual architects who escaped to the UK from Nazi-occupied Europe, whatever their fate or their stature
Online database launch: The RIBA Refugee Committee - The Wiener Holocaust Library
Join us for the launch of the RIBA Refugee Committee online database. A result of groundbreaking research on the RIBA Refugee Committee Papers, the database will include entries for each one of these…
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January 6, 2026 at 4:09 PM
📣 Join us next month for the launch of the RIBA Refugee Committee online database.
A result of groundbreaking research, the database will include entries for each one of the individual architects who escaped to the UK from Nazi-occupied Europe, whatever their fate or their stature
A result of groundbreaking research, the database will include entries for each one of the individual architects who escaped to the UK from Nazi-occupied Europe, whatever their fate or their stature
Beyond Camps and Forced Labour is underway!
This week's conference will bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are engaged in research on all groups of survivors of Nazi persecution.
Discover the full programme here: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/r...
This week's conference will bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are engaged in research on all groups of survivors of Nazi persecution.
Discover the full programme here: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/r...
January 7, 2026 at 10:07 AM
Beyond Camps and Forced Labour is underway!
This week's conference will bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are engaged in research on all groups of survivors of Nazi persecution.
Discover the full programme here: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/r...
This week's conference will bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are engaged in research on all groups of survivors of Nazi persecution.
Discover the full programme here: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/r...
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And we begin! Acting Co-Director of the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social Dr @ceschmidt.bsky.social giving the first opening remarks, followed shortly by Professor David Feldman, Director of @bisa-bkk.bsky.social !
January 7, 2026 at 9:48 AM
And we begin! Acting Co-Director of the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social Dr @ceschmidt.bsky.social giving the first opening remarks, followed shortly by Professor David Feldman, Director of @bisa-bkk.bsky.social !
📢 Join us at the Library next month for the launch of the RIBA Refugee Committee online database!
This new research hub details the lives and works of the more than 200 refugees from Nazi-occupied Central Europe who were assisted by the RIBA Refugee Committee
Tickets:
This new research hub details the lives and works of the more than 200 refugees from Nazi-occupied Central Europe who were assisted by the RIBA Refugee Committee
Tickets:
Online database launch: The RIBA Refugee Committee - The Wiener Holocaust Library
Join us for the launch of the RIBA Refugee Committee online database. A result of groundbreaking research on the RIBA Refugee Committee Papers, the database will include entries for each one of these…
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January 7, 2026 at 9:22 AM
📢 Join us at the Library next month for the launch of the RIBA Refugee Committee online database!
This new research hub details the lives and works of the more than 200 refugees from Nazi-occupied Central Europe who were assisted by the RIBA Refugee Committee
Tickets:
This new research hub details the lives and works of the more than 200 refugees from Nazi-occupied Central Europe who were assisted by the RIBA Refugee Committee
Tickets:
Tickets to attend our online #HMD2026 lecture are now live!
Book via our website 🔗 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/holoca...
Book via our website 🔗 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/holoca...
January 7, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Tickets to attend our online #HMD2026 lecture are now live!
Book via our website 🔗 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/holoca...
Book via our website 🔗 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/holoca...
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Deadline 12th January for two exciting jobs at Wiener — below freelance opportunity and a fixed term Engagement and Community Outreach Officer. See below…
📣 Freelance opportunity!
We're seeking to engage an experienced provenance researcher to conduct a detailed provenance and restitution investigation into the St Lambrecht collection, currently held at the FCDO archive.
Find out more and apply🔗
We're seeking to engage an experienced provenance researcher to conduct a detailed provenance and restitution investigation into the St Lambrecht collection, currently held at the FCDO archive.
Find out more and apply🔗
Work With Us - The Wiener Holocaust Library
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January 6, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Deadline 12th January for two exciting jobs at Wiener — below freelance opportunity and a fixed term Engagement and Community Outreach Officer. See below…
📣 Join us next month for the launch of the RIBA Refugee Committee online database.
A result of groundbreaking research, the database will include entries for each one of the individual architects who escaped to the UK from Nazi-occupied Europe, whatever their fate or their stature
A result of groundbreaking research, the database will include entries for each one of the individual architects who escaped to the UK from Nazi-occupied Europe, whatever their fate or their stature
Online database launch: The RIBA Refugee Committee - The Wiener Holocaust Library
Join us for the launch of the RIBA Refugee Committee online database. A result of groundbreaking research on the RIBA Refugee Committee Papers, the database will include entries for each one of these…
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January 6, 2026 at 4:09 PM
📣 Join us next month for the launch of the RIBA Refugee Committee online database.
A result of groundbreaking research, the database will include entries for each one of the individual architects who escaped to the UK from Nazi-occupied Europe, whatever their fate or their stature
A result of groundbreaking research, the database will include entries for each one of the individual architects who escaped to the UK from Nazi-occupied Europe, whatever their fate or their stature
📜 Report of the Jewish Community of Vienna, January– February 1939
This report gives an indication of the impoverishment that Jews in Vienna were experiencing by 1939. The graph shows the huge and very rapid rise in the use of the Jewish Community of Vienna’s soup kitchen in early 1939...
This report gives an indication of the impoverishment that Jews in Vienna were experiencing by 1939. The graph shows the huge and very rapid rise in the use of the Jewish Community of Vienna’s soup kitchen in early 1939...
January 6, 2026 at 2:48 PM
📜 Report of the Jewish Community of Vienna, January– February 1939
This report gives an indication of the impoverishment that Jews in Vienna were experiencing by 1939. The graph shows the huge and very rapid rise in the use of the Jewish Community of Vienna’s soup kitchen in early 1939...
This report gives an indication of the impoverishment that Jews in Vienna were experiencing by 1939. The graph shows the huge and very rapid rise in the use of the Jewish Community of Vienna’s soup kitchen in early 1939...
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Join us for our virtual #HolocaustMemorialDay 2026 event co-organised with @wienerlibrary.bsky.social & @igdjhh.bsky.social on 20 Jan, 6-7pm UK time, with @drhannahw.bsky.social, Deborah Jaffé and @svenjabethke.bsky.social Details and registration👇 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/holoca...
Online Holocaust Memorial Lecture 2026 - What Remains: Personal Objects and the Memory of the Holocaust - The Wiener Holocaust Library
The Institute for the History of the German Jews in Hamburg, the Wiener Holocaust Library London and the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Leicester are ple...
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January 6, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Join us for our virtual #HolocaustMemorialDay 2026 event co-organised with @wienerlibrary.bsky.social & @igdjhh.bsky.social on 20 Jan, 6-7pm UK time, with @drhannahw.bsky.social, Deborah Jaffé and @svenjabethke.bsky.social Details and registration👇 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/holoca...
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Last chance to register for this year’s Beyond Camps and Forced Labour Conference! We gather tomorrow! @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @bisa-bkk.bsky.social @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social @lbilondon.bsky.social @hgrporg.bsky.social
The programme and registration is LIVE! wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/r...
fees: £120 3 days; £60 single day. Subsidised tickets avail for PhD students. Register now! @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @bisa-bkk.bsky.social @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social @hgrporg.bsky.social @lbilondon.bsky.social
fees: £120 3 days; £60 single day. Subsidised tickets avail for PhD students. Register now! @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @bisa-bkk.bsky.social @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social @hgrporg.bsky.social @lbilondon.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 7:43 AM
Last chance to register for this year’s Beyond Camps and Forced Labour Conference! We gather tomorrow! @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @bisa-bkk.bsky.social @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social @lbilondon.bsky.social @hgrporg.bsky.social
📣 Forthcoming Book Talk!
📍25 Feb, 6:30pm
In this talk, Sasha Senderovich will discuss how works by Soviet Jewish writers, and the act of translating them, open new ways of thinking about Holocaust literature, Soviet Jewish history, and the long, uneven afterlives of mass violence
📍25 Feb, 6:30pm
In this talk, Sasha Senderovich will discuss how works by Soviet Jewish writers, and the act of translating them, open new ways of thinking about Holocaust literature, Soviet Jewish history, and the long, uneven afterlives of mass violence
Book Talk - In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union - The Wiener Holocaust Library
The short fiction collected in In the Shadow of the Holocaust, translated by Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav, recovers a range of compelling voices that had been scarcely known or translated,…
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January 6, 2026 at 9:28 AM
📣 Forthcoming Book Talk!
📍25 Feb, 6:30pm
In this talk, Sasha Senderovich will discuss how works by Soviet Jewish writers, and the act of translating them, open new ways of thinking about Holocaust literature, Soviet Jewish history, and the long, uneven afterlives of mass violence
📍25 Feb, 6:30pm
In this talk, Sasha Senderovich will discuss how works by Soviet Jewish writers, and the act of translating them, open new ways of thinking about Holocaust literature, Soviet Jewish history, and the long, uneven afterlives of mass violence
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🎥 Catch up now on the Curators Roundtable that accompanies our current exhibition, Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust
Curators Christine Schmidt, Dan Stone, and Roxy Moore explored the untold history of the experiences of elderly Jews during and after the Holocaust
Watch now:
Curators Christine Schmidt, Dan Stone, and Roxy Moore explored the untold history of the experiences of elderly Jews during and after the Holocaust
Watch now:
Curators Roundtable – Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust
Discover the stories behind The Wiener Holocaust Library’s latest exhibition, Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust.
Join curators Christine Schmidt, Dan Stone, and Roxy Moore for a roundtable…
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December 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🎥 Catch up now on the Curators Roundtable that accompanies our current exhibition, Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust
Curators Christine Schmidt, Dan Stone, and Roxy Moore explored the untold history of the experiences of elderly Jews during and after the Holocaust
Watch now:
Curators Christine Schmidt, Dan Stone, and Roxy Moore explored the untold history of the experiences of elderly Jews during and after the Holocaust
Watch now:
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This exhibition explores the choices and humanity of older Jews in the face of persecution, flight and survival. Through rare photographs, personal stories and objects, the exhibition challenges our…
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December 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Every month we collate exciting news and send it directly to your inbox. including information around new acquisitions, forthcoming exhibitions and events
We have been keeping up to date with our friends through a newsletter or bulletin throughout our 90 year history
Subscribe:
We have been keeping up to date with our friends through a newsletter or bulletin throughout our 90 year history
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📣 Freelance opportunity!
We're seeking to engage an experienced provenance researcher to conduct a detailed provenance and restitution investigation into the St Lambrecht collection, currently held at the FCDO archive.
Find out more and apply🔗
We're seeking to engage an experienced provenance researcher to conduct a detailed provenance and restitution investigation into the St Lambrecht collection, currently held at the FCDO archive.
Find out more and apply🔗
Work With Us - The Wiener Holocaust Library
Find out about our employment opportunities
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December 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
📣 Freelance opportunity!
We're seeking to engage an experienced provenance researcher to conduct a detailed provenance and restitution investigation into the St Lambrecht collection, currently held at the FCDO archive.
Find out more and apply🔗
We're seeking to engage an experienced provenance researcher to conduct a detailed provenance and restitution investigation into the St Lambrecht collection, currently held at the FCDO archive.
Find out more and apply🔗
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This year we launched a Regional Placement scheme for students seeking to learn new skills whilst undertaking project work at museums, archives and charities. Read about our placements at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland and @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-2025...
December 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This year we launched a Regional Placement scheme for students seeking to learn new skills whilst undertaking project work at museums, archives and charities. Read about our placements at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland and @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-2025...
Join us next month for the launch of a new book based on a man whose archive collection is held in the Wiener Holocaust Library: Ronald Roberts, The Lad Who Outwitted the Nazis. From Weimar Germany to Windrush Britain.
Free tickets available now 🔗
Free tickets available now 🔗
Book Launch: Ronald Roberts, The Lad Who Outwitted the Nazis. From Weimar Germany to Windrush Britain - The Wiener Holocaust Library
Join us for the launch of a new book based on a man whose archive collection is held in the Wiener Holocaust Library: Ronald Roberts, The Lad Who Outwitted the Nazis. From Weimar Germany to Windrush…
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January 5, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Join us next month for the launch of a new book based on a man whose archive collection is held in the Wiener Holocaust Library: Ronald Roberts, The Lad Who Outwitted the Nazis. From Weimar Germany to Windrush Britain.
Free tickets available now 🔗
Free tickets available now 🔗
Our Reading Room is back open to researchers today and our Exhibition Gallery is open to the public today and tomorrow, before closing for the rest of the week for an academic conference.
We look forward to welcoming you in 2026!
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We look forward to welcoming you in 2026!
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January 5, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Our Reading Room is back open to researchers today and our Exhibition Gallery is open to the public today and tomorrow, before closing for the rest of the week for an academic conference.
We look forward to welcoming you in 2026!
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We look forward to welcoming you in 2026!
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Ludwig Neumann (1896–1970) was one of the approximately 100,000 Jews who served in the German Army during the First World War, for which he was awarded an Iron Cross.
At the time of Kristallnacht in 1938, Neumann became one of the thousands of Jewish men arrested and sent to Dachau near Munich...
At the time of Kristallnacht in 1938, Neumann became one of the thousands of Jewish men arrested and sent to Dachau near Munich...
December 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Ludwig Neumann (1896–1970) was one of the approximately 100,000 Jews who served in the German Army during the First World War, for which he was awarded an Iron Cross.
At the time of Kristallnacht in 1938, Neumann became one of the thousands of Jewish men arrested and sent to Dachau near Munich...
At the time of Kristallnacht in 1938, Neumann became one of the thousands of Jewish men arrested and sent to Dachau near Munich...
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🎥 Catch up now on the Curators Roundtable that accompanies our current exhibition, Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust
Curators Christine Schmidt, Dan Stone, and Roxy Moore explored the untold history of the experiences of elderly Jews during and after the Holocaust
Watch now:
Curators Christine Schmidt, Dan Stone, and Roxy Moore explored the untold history of the experiences of elderly Jews during and after the Holocaust
Watch now:
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January 2, 2026 at 2:48 PM
🎥 Catch up now on the Curators Roundtable that accompanies our current exhibition, Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust
Curators Christine Schmidt, Dan Stone, and Roxy Moore explored the untold history of the experiences of elderly Jews during and after the Holocaust
Watch now:
Curators Christine Schmidt, Dan Stone, and Roxy Moore explored the untold history of the experiences of elderly Jews during and after the Holocaust
Watch now:
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In January 1942 an extermination programme known as ‘14f13’ began. Once selected, prisoners were transferred to Bernburg or Hartheim in Austria and murdered in gas chambers
During the spring of 1942 approximately 1900 prisoners from Ravensbrück were murdered through this programme
During the spring of 1942 approximately 1900 prisoners from Ravensbrück were murdered through this programme
Case Study: Ravensbrück – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools
A photograph secretly taken by Ravensbrück prisoners, showing a group of Polish civilian women and children arriving at Ravensbrück from Warsaw after the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944.…
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January 2, 2026 at 4:09 PM
In January 1942 an extermination programme known as ‘14f13’ began. Once selected, prisoners were transferred to Bernburg or Hartheim in Austria and murdered in gas chambers
During the spring of 1942 approximately 1900 prisoners from Ravensbrück were murdered through this programme
During the spring of 1942 approximately 1900 prisoners from Ravensbrück were murdered through this programme
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In January 1942, deportations began transporting Jews and Roma from Łódź to Chełmno extermination camp
By the end of September 1942, 70,000 Jews and 4,300 Roma had been deported from Łódź. Later thousands more were deported, including the elderly and infirm and young children
By the end of September 1942, 70,000 Jews and 4,300 Roma had been deported from Łódź. Later thousands more were deported, including the elderly and infirm and young children
Case Study: Łódź Ghetto – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools
A postcard sent to the Łódź or ‘Litzmannstadt’ ghetto in July 1942, and addressed to the ‘Ältesten der Jude’, the leaders of the Jewish council.
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January 5, 2026 at 9:28 AM
In January 1942, deportations began transporting Jews and Roma from Łódź to Chełmno extermination camp
By the end of September 1942, 70,000 Jews and 4,300 Roma had been deported from Łódź. Later thousands more were deported, including the elderly and infirm and young children
By the end of September 1942, 70,000 Jews and 4,300 Roma had been deported from Łódź. Later thousands more were deported, including the elderly and infirm and young children