London Library opens access to Holocaust archive
According to Ukrinform, this was reported by The Guardian.
The library's new online platform, which was opened on Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, includes more than 150,000 records collected over nine decades. Users can view letters, photographs, and brochures that document the rise of fascism in Britain and Europe.
The director of the library, Dr Toby Simpson, said the project had been in the works for more than 10 years and he hoped it would help it find a new audience of scholars and become a “new way of bearing witness in the digital age”.
According to the library's website, the online platform features documents, photographs, transcripts, testimonies, reports, writings, and books. The Wiener Library's collection also includes press clippings, manuscripts, memoirs, and works of art.
The Wiener Library was founded 90 years ago by Dr Alfred Wiener, who campaigned against nazism during the 1920s and 30s and gathered evidence about antisemitism and the persecution of Jews in Germany. The library was originally called the Jewish Central Information Office and was based in Amsterdam before moving to London in 1938.
On January 27, Ukrainians and the international community commemorated the victims of the Holocaust.