The Wiener Holocaust Library

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The world's oldest Holocaust archive and Britain's largest collection on the Nazi era.

Website: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org
Digital Archive: www.whlcollections.org
Donate: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/support-our-work/donate/

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The women were Jewish slave labourers from Italy, France, Holland, Belgium, Poland and Czechoslovakia.

These photos from our archive, alongside others documenting the brutal Nazi slave labour system, are currently on display in our exhibition gallery.

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By the end of August 1944, around one third of the 5.7m forced labourers in the Greater Reich were women. The majority of female forced labourers came from Eastern Europe. This series of photos was taken in Kaunitz following an evacuation march when the camp was liberated by American troops.

Four women gathered at a doorway: three in coats and headscarves and a younger woman in a short-sleeved sweater with bandaged forearms looking to the side.Six women in work clothes and headscarves clustered in a doorway; three look at the camera while a young woman in a trench coat inspects a small wrapped item and another holds a bread roll, a candid mid-20th-century group moment.Three people standing with large white crosses painted on the backs of their coats, indicating they’ve been visibly marked for identification or public shaming.An older woman wearing a headscarf has her arm around a teenage girl; both stand close and look solemnly at the camera in a historical black-and-white portrait conveying closeness and quiet resilience.
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Since launching our digital archive last year we have been constantly updating the site to make as many of our collections as possible available to researchers around the world

There are now over 260,000 pages of evidence relating to the Holocaust and the Nazi era available online buff.ly/OaZa98s

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🍵 Our PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar programme continues this term!

This events series is designed for early-career researchers and PhD candidates to present their research on topics in Holocaust studies for feedback from other researchers

Find out more buff.ly/XBQ9hgY

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📣 Our educational and outreach team offer a variety of tours, workshops and talks to school, university, adult learner and community groups.

To book a school visit or tour, please email the Learning Team, and we would be happy to discuss opportunities for exploring our collections buff.ly/V9YGjs1

A group of eight adults stand along a white-paneled room wall, looking attentively toward an off-camera presentation or exhibit; one person gestures while others hold notebooks, lanyards, and a phone.
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📣 Our educational and outreach team offer a variety of tours, workshops and talks to school, university, adult learner and community groups.

To book a school visit or tour, please email the Learning Team, and we would be happy to discuss opportunities for exploring our collections buff.ly/V9YGjs1

A group of eight adults stand along a white-paneled room wall, looking attentively toward an off-camera presentation or exhibit; one person gestures while others hold notebooks, lanyards, and a phone.
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📣 In case you missed it!

We've uploaded this week's talk with Charlie Scheidt and Kat Rohrer to our channel. Their book, Inheritance: Love, Loss, and the Legacy of the Holocaust, is the story of two German-Jewish families, uprooted by the Holocaust and war

Watch now: buff.ly/1Xt69Uw

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📣 In case you missed it!

We've uploaded this week's talk with Charlie Scheidt and Kat Rohrer to our channel. Their book, Inheritance: Love, Loss, and the Legacy of the Holocaust, is the story of two German-Jewish families, uprooted by the Holocaust and war

Watch now: buff.ly/1Xt69Uw

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Happening this Sunday!

Don't miss the chance to see our latest ground-breaking exhibition before it closes at the end of this month. We're open on Sunday 11 October for an exhibition open day and two free guided tour by the exhibition's expert curators.

Free tickets: buff.ly/S6exZxC

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🍵 Our PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar programme continues this term!

This events series is designed for early-career researchers and PhD candidates to present their research on topics in Holocaust studies for feedback from other researchers

Find out more buff.ly/XBQ9hgY

@wienerlibrary.bsky.social

Since launching our digital archive last year we have been constantly updating the site to make as many of our collections as possible available to researchers around the world

There are now over 260,000 pages of evidence relating to the Holocaust and the Nazi era available online buff.ly/OaZa98s

@wienerlibrary.bsky.social

Happening this Sunday!

Don't miss the chance to see our latest ground-breaking exhibition before it closes at the end of this month. We're open on Sunday 11 October for an exhibition open day and two free guided tour by the exhibition's expert curators.

Free tickets: buff.ly/S6exZxC

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Its the final few weeks to see our latest exhibition, Nazi Slave Labour: Perpetrators & Victims!

We're open Monday to Friday, 10am - 5pm, with no need to book tickets in advance. All of our public exhibitions and events are free and open to all.

Plan your visit: buff.ly/ZJxWHew

Museum display case labeled "Czech civilians" and "Political prisoners" holding archival black-and-white photographs and a pamphlet documenting Czech civilians and prisoners during Nazi-era detention.One-mark banknote issued in the Łódź ghetto in 1940, displayed upright in a clear plastic stand above a museum placard explaining that ghetto currency paid meagre wages that could not feed families.Black-and-white vertical strip of candid photos showing men walking and working, mounted on a clear stand as part of a museum exhibit with a second framed, blurred photo in the background.Museum exhibit panel titled "The SS and Nazi organisation of forced and slave labour" explaining forced labour, beside a glass case of documents and a visitor reading the display.
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Its the final few weeks to see our latest exhibition, Nazi Slave Labour: Perpetrators & Victims!

We're open Monday to Friday, 10am - 5pm, with no need to book tickets in advance. All of our public exhibitions and events are free and open to all.

Plan your visit: buff.ly/ZJxWHew

Museum display case labeled "Czech civilians" and "Political prisoners" holding archival black-and-white photographs and a pamphlet documenting Czech civilians and prisoners during Nazi-era detention.One-mark banknote issued in the Łódź ghetto in 1940, displayed upright in a clear plastic stand above a museum placard explaining that ghetto currency paid meagre wages that could not feed families.Black-and-white vertical strip of candid photos showing men walking and working, mounted on a clear stand as part of a museum exhibit with a second framed, blurred photo in the background.Museum exhibit panel titled "The SS and Nazi organisation of forced and slave labour" explaining forced labour, beside a glass case of documents and a visitor reading the display.
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