In a historic move coinciding with Holocaust Memorial Day and the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation, the Wiener Holocaust Library in the UK has made one of the world’s largest Holocaust archives accessible online.
This new digital portal houses over 150,000 historical records, including photographs, transcripts, and testimonies that document Nazi Germany’s extermination of six million European Jews during World War II.
Toby Simpson, the director of the London-based library, emphasized the importance of this initiative, stating, “The need to defend the truth has been given new urgency by the resurgence of anti-Semitism and other forms of misinformation and hatred.
By making this evidence freely available online, we ensure that the historical record is accessible to everyone, regardless of their location or means.”
The archive contains poignant materials such as photographs from Auschwitz, the infamous death camp where over one million Jews were killed between 1940 and its liberation on January 27, 1945.
Also included are documents from the Nuremberg Trials, which prosecuted Nazi leaders, and records of fascist and anti-fascist activities in the UK before and after the war.
Additionally, the collection features 500 rare pamphlets and books with anti-fascist propaganda distributed during the Nazi era.
These items were often disguised as advertisements for household products or instructional guides for women, cleverly hiding their true purpose.
The Wiener Holocaust Library, founded in the 1930s by Alfred Wiener, was created to gather evidence of Jewish persecution in Germany after Wiener fled the country.
Today, this groundbreaking online archive continues to serve as a powerful tool in preserving historical truth and combating misinformation.
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