Wiener Library Collection 1946-1979

Clippings, brochures, correspondence relating to the Wiener Library.The Wiener Library is the world's oldest Holocaust memorial institution, tracing its history back to 1933. Alfred Wiener, a German Jew who worked in the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith, fled Germany in 1933 for Amsterdam. Together with Prof. David Cohen, he set up the Jewish Central Information Office, collecting and disseminating information about events happening in Nazi Germany.The collection was transferred to Manchester Square, London in 1939 with Wiener making the resources available to British government intelligence departments. The library soon became known as 'Dr Wiener's Library' and the name was adopted. After the war the Library's academic reputation increased and the collecting policies were broadened.Today, the Wiener Library holds one of the largest specialized collections on the subject of modern Jewish history with special reference to Nazism and antisemitism.In 1979, the holdings of the Wiener Library were microfilmed. The reels containing materials relating to German-Jewish History are housed at the Leo Baeck Institute, NY; the other reels were deposited at the New York Public Library.See also Wiener Library Biographical Archive collection.digitize