Overview
is one of the world’s most important independent archives. Situated on Russell Square, London, since 2011, its extensive collections include survivor testimonies, photographs, personal and official documents, pamphlets and rare books.
This presentation will explore the motivations, successes and setbacks of the extraordinary people who sustained what Dr Alfred Wiener, the Library’s founder, described as an ‘annually recurring miracle’. The Wiener collections have proven to be vital at key moments during and especially after the Holocaust, including the Nuremberg, Eichmann and David Irving trials.
Image: Members of the JCIO staff in Amsterdam, c.1935. On the far left are Margarete and Alfred Wiener.
Speaker
Dr Toby Simpson has been Director of The Wiener Holocaust Library since 2019. After completing his PhD in History at Cambridge, Dr Simpson joined the Library in 2011. He set up a new programme of exhibitions, tours, and events as well as a major digitisation project. Since that time, the Library’s audiences, activities, and impact have steadily increased and it is more widely recognised than ever before as a world leader in Holocaust research, education, and remembrance. In 2024 he was awarded an OBE for services to Holocaust memorial.
Details
This is a hybrid event, which will take place in-person in the Gatsby Room (Chancellor's Centre) and also on Zoom.
If you would like to attend online, please .
Refreshments will be available for the in-person audience.
Access
This event will take place in the Roger Needham Room on the second floor of the Chancellor's Centre. It has step-free access with a lift and there is an accessible toilet located each floor of the building.
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