Wiener Library
What Visitors Say
small but 10000000% worth visiting! Was very pleasantly surprised about the inclusion of Roma people in the recent exhibition as well as the extensive library of books they had on them, not a lot of museums/libraries provide this part of history!
This is a small but very informative museum/library. There is a great deal of information of the holocaust and the impact it had on people especially people coming to England. If you get chance it's worth your time
Important archive. Also often exhibitions focusing on various aspects of Holocaust history.
Highlights
Documenting the Warning Signs (1933–39)
Pre-war leaflets, reports and photographs show how surveillance of anti-Jewish policy and violence was gathered and circulated in real time.Read an early report beside a contemporary newspaper—see how ‘ordinary’ items foreshadow catastrophe.
Introductory cases
Personal Papers & Testimony
Letters, diaries and family files trace persecution, flight and survival with granular detail that broad histories can’t capture.Follow one individual across multiple documents: name changes, visas, camp records and post-war tracing requests.
Core archive selections
Propaganda & Counter-Propaganda
Contrasts Nazi publications with contemporary responses, exposing techniques of demonisation and the challenges of refutation.Compare typography, imagery and ‘pseudo-facts’—disinformation design has a look and rhythm.
Thematic panels
Genocide After 1945
Links the Library’s methods—collect, verify, preserve—to documentation of later mass atrocities.Note continuities in language and bureaucracy across different places and decades.
Rotating section
Opening Hours
Fun Facts
Originating in the 1930s under Dr Alfred Wiener, it is among the world’s oldest institutions formed expressly to document antisemitism and Nazi persecution while they were unfolding.
The Library is a UK partner for digital access to the Arolsen Archives (formerly International Tracing Service), enabling research into victims and survivors using wartime and post-war records.
Its press-cuttings and pamphlet collections preserve fragile, time-sensitive sources that rarely survive elsewhere—key for reconstructing public knowledge and response.
