The Wiener Holocaust Library
@wienerlibrary.bsky.social
The world's oldest Holocaust archive and Britain's largest collection on the Nazi era.
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Website: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org
Digital Archive: www.whlcollections.org
Donate: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/support-our-work/donate/
Nathan decided to start his own factory manufacturing furnishing fabrics in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. He commuted between London and Northern Ireland regularly. The family obtained British citizenship in September 1946.
November 29, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Nathan decided to start his own factory manufacturing furnishing fabrics in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. He commuted between London and Northern Ireland regularly. The family obtained British citizenship in September 1946.
Henry Nathan was born in Bromberg, Germany on 29 November 1898. He married Betty Rosenthal, and they had two daughters. Henry was managing director of a firm manufacturing furnishing fabrics in Baden-Württemberg...
📸 Driver’s license of Betty Nathan née Rosenthal. February 1932. buff.ly/eMJDotK
📸 Driver’s license of Betty Nathan née Rosenthal. February 1932. buff.ly/eMJDotK
November 29, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Henry Nathan was born in Bromberg, Germany on 29 November 1898. He married Betty Rosenthal, and they had two daughters. Henry was managing director of a firm manufacturing furnishing fabrics in Baden-Württemberg...
📸 Driver’s license of Betty Nathan née Rosenthal. February 1932. buff.ly/eMJDotK
📸 Driver’s license of Betty Nathan née Rosenthal. February 1932. buff.ly/eMJDotK
Our fantastic Digitisation Officer has just reached the milestone of having digitised 20,000 images from documents, photo and family archives from our collection!
These images will now be added to our online archive where they are freely accessible to researchers worldwide www.whlcollections.org
These images will now be added to our online archive where they are freely accessible to researchers worldwide www.whlcollections.org
November 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Our fantastic Digitisation Officer has just reached the milestone of having digitised 20,000 images from documents, photo and family archives from our collection!
These images will now be added to our online archive where they are freely accessible to researchers worldwide www.whlcollections.org
These images will now be added to our online archive where they are freely accessible to researchers worldwide www.whlcollections.org
📸 Record card from the Hampstead Garden Suburb Care Committee collection, c.1939
This record card gives details of a twelve-year-old boy, Julius Blumenthal from Frankfurt, who sought refuge in Britain... 🔗https://buff.ly/vwbzQ79
This record card gives details of a twelve-year-old boy, Julius Blumenthal from Frankfurt, who sought refuge in Britain... 🔗https://buff.ly/vwbzQ79
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
📸 Record card from the Hampstead Garden Suburb Care Committee collection, c.1939
This record card gives details of a twelve-year-old boy, Julius Blumenthal from Frankfurt, who sought refuge in Britain... 🔗https://buff.ly/vwbzQ79
This record card gives details of a twelve-year-old boy, Julius Blumenthal from Frankfurt, who sought refuge in Britain... 🔗https://buff.ly/vwbzQ79
📣 There's still time to sign up to our free exhibition event!
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 an in-depth roundtable conversation buff.ly/qZ4Vq1H
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 an in-depth roundtable conversation buff.ly/qZ4Vq1H
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
📣 There's still time to sign up to our free exhibition event!
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 an in-depth roundtable conversation buff.ly/qZ4Vq1H
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 an in-depth roundtable conversation buff.ly/qZ4Vq1H
📸 B. Birnbach, Jews on the Hungarian-Czechoslovak border, November 1938
This photo is one of a set held by the Library depicting some of the Jews who were deported by far-right Slovak militias and the Hungarian authorities to a newly established Hungarian-Czechoslovak border region in 1938...
This photo is one of a set held by the Library depicting some of the Jews who were deported by far-right Slovak militias and the Hungarian authorities to a newly established Hungarian-Czechoslovak border region in 1938...
November 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
📸 B. Birnbach, Jews on the Hungarian-Czechoslovak border, November 1938
This photo is one of a set held by the Library depicting some of the Jews who were deported by far-right Slovak militias and the Hungarian authorities to a newly established Hungarian-Czechoslovak border region in 1938...
This photo is one of a set held by the Library depicting some of the Jews who were deported by far-right Slovak militias and the Hungarian authorities to a newly established Hungarian-Czechoslovak border region in 1938...
The Theresienstadt Ghetto was established on this day in 1941.
Theresienstadt was a ghetto, but also had features of a transit camp. It was used as a temporary holding place for Jews on their way to camps further east...
📸 Photos of the arrival of Jews at Theresienstadt, taken by B. Birnbach
Theresienstadt was a ghetto, but also had features of a transit camp. It was used as a temporary holding place for Jews on their way to camps further east...
📸 Photos of the arrival of Jews at Theresienstadt, taken by B. Birnbach
November 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The Theresienstadt Ghetto was established on this day in 1941.
Theresienstadt was a ghetto, but also had features of a transit camp. It was used as a temporary holding place for Jews on their way to camps further east...
📸 Photos of the arrival of Jews at Theresienstadt, taken by B. Birnbach
Theresienstadt was a ghetto, but also had features of a transit camp. It was used as a temporary holding place for Jews on their way to camps further east...
📸 Photos of the arrival of Jews at Theresienstadt, taken by B. Birnbach
With the first issue of The Wiener Library Bulletin, published in 1946, The Wiener Library launched itself as a research institute open to the wider public. The bulletin covered topics from war crime trials to the resurgence of extreme groups, and the development of Holocaust historiography...
November 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
With the first issue of The Wiener Library Bulletin, published in 1946, The Wiener Library launched itself as a research institute open to the wider public. The bulletin covered topics from war crime trials to the resurgence of extreme groups, and the development of Holocaust historiography...
In our archive collection we hold authenticated copies and translations into English of Nuremberg War Crimes trial documents which specifically pertain to the fate of European Jewry.
The collection contains both contemporary documentation and post war affidavits from witnesses 🔗 buff.ly/lb5aQDh
The collection contains both contemporary documentation and post war affidavits from witnesses 🔗 buff.ly/lb5aQDh
November 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM
In our archive collection we hold authenticated copies and translations into English of Nuremberg War Crimes trial documents which specifically pertain to the fate of European Jewry.
The collection contains both contemporary documentation and post war affidavits from witnesses 🔗 buff.ly/lb5aQDh
The collection contains both contemporary documentation and post war affidavits from witnesses 🔗 buff.ly/lb5aQDh
In November 1945, twenty-four prominent members of Nazi Germany, who had been captured by the Allies at the end of the war, were prosecuted by the International Military Tribunal (IMT) for the crimes they planned and committed throughout the Second World War, including the Holocaust...
November 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM
In November 1945, twenty-four prominent members of Nazi Germany, who had been captured by the Allies at the end of the war, were prosecuted by the International Military Tribunal (IMT) for the crimes they planned and committed throughout the Second World War, including the Holocaust...
"Smaller and larger mobs appeared in numerous homes and senselessly destroyed their fixtures and fittings. Furniture was smashed up, and they took particular pleasure in shattering mirrors, crystal and similar objects..."
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🔗 buff.ly/Y9kdpBw
November 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"Smaller and larger mobs appeared in numerous homes and senselessly destroyed their fixtures and fittings. Furniture was smashed up, and they took particular pleasure in shattering mirrors, crystal and similar objects..."
🔗 buff.ly/Y9kdpBw
🔗 buff.ly/Y9kdpBw
This postcard was sent from Ludwig Marx to his wife Regina from Dachau concentration camp on this day in 1938.
Part of our vast archive of family document collections, the full digitised collection can now be viewed via our digital archive, Wiener Digital Collections 🔗 buff.ly/a0w4x27
Part of our vast archive of family document collections, the full digitised collection can now be viewed via our digital archive, Wiener Digital Collections 🔗 buff.ly/a0w4x27
November 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This postcard was sent from Ludwig Marx to his wife Regina from Dachau concentration camp on this day in 1938.
Part of our vast archive of family document collections, the full digitised collection can now be viewed via our digital archive, Wiener Digital Collections 🔗 buff.ly/a0w4x27
Part of our vast archive of family document collections, the full digitised collection can now be viewed via our digital archive, Wiener Digital Collections 🔗 buff.ly/a0w4x27
Following Kristallnacht, antisemitism in Germany intensified further. This shop had 'On holiday in Dachau' painted onto the front, referring to the owners' arrest and deportation to the concentration camp.
Learn more via #TheHolocaustExplained buff.ly/COGS9AJ
Learn more via #TheHolocaustExplained buff.ly/COGS9AJ
November 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Following Kristallnacht, antisemitism in Germany intensified further. This shop had 'On holiday in Dachau' painted onto the front, referring to the owners' arrest and deportation to the concentration camp.
Learn more via #TheHolocaustExplained buff.ly/COGS9AJ
Learn more via #TheHolocaustExplained buff.ly/COGS9AJ
With the first issue of The Wiener Library Bulletin, published in 1946, The Wiener Library launched itself as a research institute open to the wider public. The bulletin covered topics from war crime trials to the resurgence of extreme groups, and the development of Holocaust historiography...
November 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
With the first issue of The Wiener Library Bulletin, published in 1946, The Wiener Library launched itself as a research institute open to the wider public. The bulletin covered topics from war crime trials to the resurgence of extreme groups, and the development of Holocaust historiography...
Kristallnacht, also referred to as the November Pogrom or the Night of Broken Glass, was a series of violent antisemitic attacks which took place across Germany on the 9-10 November 1938.
The name refers to the broken glass lining the streets after the pogroms.
🔗 buff.ly/COGS9AJ
The name refers to the broken glass lining the streets after the pogroms.
🔗 buff.ly/COGS9AJ
November 9, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Kristallnacht, also referred to as the November Pogrom or the Night of Broken Glass, was a series of violent antisemitic attacks which took place across Germany on the 9-10 November 1938.
The name refers to the broken glass lining the streets after the pogroms.
🔗 buff.ly/COGS9AJ
The name refers to the broken glass lining the streets after the pogroms.
🔗 buff.ly/COGS9AJ
On the 8 November 1923, Hitler attempted to pull off a military coup and overthrow the Weimar Republic
📸 Armed soldiers during the Munich Putsch November 1938. Wiener Holocaust Library collections
Find out more about the Nazi rise to power via #TheHolocaustExplained 🔗 buff.ly/LkJ87dO
📸 Armed soldiers during the Munich Putsch November 1938. Wiener Holocaust Library collections
Find out more about the Nazi rise to power via #TheHolocaustExplained 🔗 buff.ly/LkJ87dO
November 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
On the 8 November 1923, Hitler attempted to pull off a military coup and overthrow the Weimar Republic
📸 Armed soldiers during the Munich Putsch November 1938. Wiener Holocaust Library collections
Find out more about the Nazi rise to power via #TheHolocaustExplained 🔗 buff.ly/LkJ87dO
📸 Armed soldiers during the Munich Putsch November 1938. Wiener Holocaust Library collections
Find out more about the Nazi rise to power via #TheHolocaustExplained 🔗 buff.ly/LkJ87dO
On 16 July 1936, following a decree issued by the Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick for ‘Combating the Gypsy Plague’, 600 Roma and Sinti living in Berlin were arrested and taken to the Marzahn detention camp.
📸 Roma inmates in the Berlin-Marzahn camp, date unknown. Landesarchiv Berlin.
📸 Roma inmates in the Berlin-Marzahn camp, date unknown. Landesarchiv Berlin.
November 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
On 16 July 1936, following a decree issued by the Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick for ‘Combating the Gypsy Plague’, 600 Roma and Sinti living in Berlin were arrested and taken to the Marzahn detention camp.
📸 Roma inmates in the Berlin-Marzahn camp, date unknown. Landesarchiv Berlin.
📸 Roma inmates in the Berlin-Marzahn camp, date unknown. Landesarchiv Berlin.
On this day in 1938, Ernst Vom Rath, a German official, was murdered in Paris, shot by Herschel Grynszpan, a Jewish teenager whose aim was to bring the world’s attention to the plight of his family and other Jews during the Polenaktion.
📸 Polish Jews being deported from Germany, October 1938
📸 Polish Jews being deported from Germany, October 1938
November 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
On this day in 1938, Ernst Vom Rath, a German official, was murdered in Paris, shot by Herschel Grynszpan, a Jewish teenager whose aim was to bring the world’s attention to the plight of his family and other Jews during the Polenaktion.
📸 Polish Jews being deported from Germany, October 1938
📸 Polish Jews being deported from Germany, October 1938
We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg MBE.
He and his family visited our 2021 exhibition, Death Marches, and Manfred generously shared his moving story of survival with us. May his memory be a blessing. www.bbc.com/news/article...
He and his family visited our 2021 exhibition, Death Marches, and Manfred generously shared his moving story of survival with us. May his memory be a blessing. www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg MBE.
He and his family visited our 2021 exhibition, Death Marches, and Manfred generously shared his moving story of survival with us. May his memory be a blessing. www.bbc.com/news/article...
He and his family visited our 2021 exhibition, Death Marches, and Manfred generously shared his moving story of survival with us. May his memory be a blessing. www.bbc.com/news/article...
📢 Launching next week...
Our latest @hgrporg.bsky.social exhibition uncovers the untold story of elderly Jews during and after the Holocaust through the eyes of people for whom 1945 often marked the end of their long lives.
Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust is on display until April 2026
Our latest @hgrporg.bsky.social exhibition uncovers the untold story of elderly Jews during and after the Holocaust through the eyes of people for whom 1945 often marked the end of their long lives.
Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust is on display until April 2026
November 6, 2025 at 11:04 AM
📢 Launching next week...
Our latest @hgrporg.bsky.social exhibition uncovers the untold story of elderly Jews during and after the Holocaust through the eyes of people for whom 1945 often marked the end of their long lives.
Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust is on display until April 2026
Our latest @hgrporg.bsky.social exhibition uncovers the untold story of elderly Jews during and after the Holocaust through the eyes of people for whom 1945 often marked the end of their long lives.
Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust is on display until April 2026
Are you an MA or PhD student working on 20th-century European History or Holocaust studies? Join us for a digital skills workshop to discover highlights from our unique archive collections!
Sign up now: bit.ly/4naClvi
Sign up now: bit.ly/4naClvi
November 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Are you an MA or PhD student working on 20th-century European History or Holocaust studies? Join us for a digital skills workshop to discover highlights from our unique archive collections!
Sign up now: bit.ly/4naClvi
Sign up now: bit.ly/4naClvi
"I thought the Leader absolutely charming - very cheerful and unfrightening and easy to get on with…"
This was the impression of British fascist and socialite, Unity Mitford, on first meeting Oswald Mosley in November 1933, as described in her diary which we hold in our collection...
This was the impression of British fascist and socialite, Unity Mitford, on first meeting Oswald Mosley in November 1933, as described in her diary which we hold in our collection...
November 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"I thought the Leader absolutely charming - very cheerful and unfrightening and easy to get on with…"
This was the impression of British fascist and socialite, Unity Mitford, on first meeting Oswald Mosley in November 1933, as described in her diary which we hold in our collection...
This was the impression of British fascist and socialite, Unity Mitford, on first meeting Oswald Mosley in November 1933, as described in her diary which we hold in our collection...
This account was provided to the Library by a German socialist who was imprisoned by the Nazis at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen, and survived a death march to the Baltic Sea. He was saved by the arrival of the Allies before the prisoners should have been drowned.
📸 Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
📸 Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
November 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This account was provided to the Library by a German socialist who was imprisoned by the Nazis at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen, and survived a death march to the Baltic Sea. He was saved by the arrival of the Allies before the prisoners should have been drowned.
📸 Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
📸 Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
"On 3 November 1933 I was arrested in Bielefeld. I was a painter, but out of work, and had previously been on Gestapo wanted lists. I was wanted for illegal activity. I was sentenced to three years imprisonment for planning high treason"
📸 Eyewitness account by Rudolf Larsch, a German socialist
📸 Eyewitness account by Rudolf Larsch, a German socialist
November 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"On 3 November 1933 I was arrested in Bielefeld. I was a painter, but out of work, and had previously been on Gestapo wanted lists. I was wanted for illegal activity. I was sentenced to three years imprisonment for planning high treason"
📸 Eyewitness account by Rudolf Larsch, a German socialist
📸 Eyewitness account by Rudolf Larsch, a German socialist
Construction began at Bełżec extermination camp on this day in 1941.
The decision to construct three extermination camps was made at the Wannsee Conference of 1942, at Bełżec, Sobibór and Treblinka.
📸 Bełżec extermination camp SS staff, 1942. Wikimedia Commons.
The decision to construct three extermination camps was made at the Wannsee Conference of 1942, at Bełżec, Sobibór and Treblinka.
📸 Bełżec extermination camp SS staff, 1942. Wikimedia Commons.
November 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Construction began at Bełżec extermination camp on this day in 1941.
The decision to construct three extermination camps was made at the Wannsee Conference of 1942, at Bełżec, Sobibór and Treblinka.
📸 Bełżec extermination camp SS staff, 1942. Wikimedia Commons.
The decision to construct three extermination camps was made at the Wannsee Conference of 1942, at Bełżec, Sobibór and Treblinka.
📸 Bełżec extermination camp SS staff, 1942. Wikimedia Commons.