The Wiener Library
The Wiener Library
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BibliothèquesSites pédagogiquesMusées d'histoire
De 10:00 à 19:30
Lundi
10:00 - 17:00
Mardi
10:00 - 19:30
Mercredi
10:00 - 17:00
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10:00 - 17:00
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10:00 - 17:00
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Quartier: Bloomsbury
Situé au cœur de Londres, le quartier universitaire et arboré de Bloomsbury se trouve à quelques minutes à pied des attractions les plus célèbres de la capitale. Il accueille également certains des musées les plus renommés de Grande-Bretagne, y compris l'incontournable British Museum. Malgré sa popularité grandissante auprès des étudiants et des touristes, ce quartier a su garder son caractère de zone résidentielle.
Comment s'y rendre
  • Russell Square • À 4 min à pied
  • Goodge St • À 7 min à pied
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70ava
Beijing, Chine1 002 contributions
5,0 sur 5 bulles
janv. 2024 • En couple
An interesting thought-provoking place next to SOAS. They have changing exhibitions - well made and very informative. The staff is very helpful. We visited the exhibition "Expelled" in its last days and learned a lot.
Écrit le 17 janvier 2024
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Amanda O
2 contributions
5,0 sur 5 bulles
mai 2021
I first learned of this library and exhibitions when starting a new job and seeing posters in a nearby train station. Lock down being on-and-off and my work hours having to be quite fluid, it has taken me around a year to actually make the short walk here. I managed to secure a slot in the middle of the day for the 'Death Marches - Evidence and Memory' exhibition. I am so glad I managed to work my day around this event. The exhibition was small but still informative. Funds are still neded to help with ongoing research into srories that should never have been (or ever should be) forgotten. There is still a lot we don't know about these people, their lives and/or deaths, but the work continues. A wonderful gem of a place overlooking Russell Square. Working over at the nearby hospital, I am conscious of the precautions in place with respect to invection control, and the staff here cannot be faulted! Displays and the visiting public very well set out, no real possibility of tripping over each other here. I will certainly be back - maybe for longer once Corronavirus restrictions are no longer deemed nescessary.
Écrit le 22 mai 2021
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Judith B
Doncaster, United Kingdom25 contributions
5,0 sur 5 bulles
janv. 2020
We went having seen a poster in the Russell Square tube station. The exhibition was small but gave so much compelling information with heart wrenching stories. Information is rare on how groups such as the Roma and Sinti were murdered and tortured by the Nazis. We will look out for other exhibitions on our future visits to London. The Library needs to promote itself more positively as I don’t think many people know of its existence which is a great pity.
Écrit le 25 janvier 2020
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Richard W
Worcester, UK327 contributions
5,0 sur 5 bulles
oct. 2019
Friendly staff and an amazingly warm welcome. A peaceful reading room, well resourced with archive materials available by request. Whether for an insight into how resources about the Holocaust and genocides are curated, or personal research, this library is well worth visiting.
Écrit le 30 octobre 2019
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futtock21
Londres, UK11 621 contributions
5,0 sur 5 bulles
août 2019 • En solo
The Wiener Library is the legacy of German Jew Alfred Wiener who started cataloguing and recording Nazi anti-Semitism in the 1920s, an activity which led him and his family to flee Germany for Amsterdam in 1933 and to England in 1938. These premises in Russell Square are its third site in London. For Heritage Open Days I joined a tour which included the ground floor exhibition space, the basement archives where we were shown photographs and family albums of the victims of Nazi oppression, then unto the splendid first floor library.
Écrit le 22 septembre 2019
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Harry F
Aledo57 contributions
5,0 sur 5 bulles
mai 2019 • Voyage d'affaires
We took 18 college students to the Wiener Library. They found the information presented to be highly interesting and we had good discussions in class on the following day.
Écrit le 12 juillet 2019
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Saint J
Londres, UK212 contributions
4,0 sur 5 bulles
mars 2019 • En solo
Its one room with wallcharts on the ground floor and a reading room upstairs. Very nice people but unless you have a specific interest maybe dont take up their time or yours. As an aside its interesting how the russian and japanese atrocities in ww2 are fading in memories but the holocaust is as prevalent as ever.
Écrit le 29 mars 2019
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Master Jonjon
Londres, UK344 contributions
4,0 sur 5 bulles
nov. 2018 • En solo
“𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝: 𝐏𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐦, 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟗𝟑𝟖” 🏠

... we would have put its dramatic elements above all displacing the subtle social forces that would have fueled something to emerge from nothing. The more we’re about to take part in this dramatic reductionism, the more the danger of making a history into a mere resounding story. But what would it be like if we’re to dwell deeper into the fragments of memories, hence reversing the process to reconstruct how brutal pasts manifest into worldwide disasters by branching out into the everyday life of violence and micro-oppression?

Just pretend such a level of specificity can exist. And here we'll thus immediately realize how a time of such abnormality can emerge, now being retold in front of our eyes, forcing us to face what it’s like when vile falsities manifest into collective war crimes, a time when logic breaks down in the name of logic (an over-emphasis on ‘rationality’ of the instrumental kind, a pitfall of modernism).

The event presented here is no other than ‘Kristallnacht’ – a two-day attack on Jewish Germans in the winter of 1938. Remembering how we live in a world where brains are too tiny to apprehend the world, this tiny malfunction is but one example of how genocide can start as with other hate-crimes: the blaming of crimes on a few (non?)members of the society, and then to be generalized to a far-fetched ‘they are all the same / bad’.

You will find yourself comparing between a grand and a grounded narrative with notice boards telling you the timeline of critical events and artifacts behind glasses giving spirit to all the mishappenings. Sooner or later, you’ll be surrounded by newspaper testimonies, eye witness reports and other records, all of which help retell a past in which mob and lone-wolf violence can run abound while the rest are stunned as unsympathetic bystanders and law enforcers.

(A somewhat British consideration: compared to the rest of Western Europe, the British government was reluctant to take in these refugees immediately following the event.)

~master jonjon
Écrit le 6 février 2019
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Gregory @urbanist.london
Londres, UK62 contributions
5,0 sur 5 bulles
nov. 2018
A stunning archive of materials collected by Dr Wiener since before the 1938, and up to present day material. Provided invaluable evidence in War Crimes Courts. The collection of Nazi propaganda designed to influence children is chilling. The current exhibition of the November 1938 Pogrom is meticulous and soberly informative.
Écrit le 29 novembre 2018
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ljbunny
Leyland, UK1 126 contributions
5,0 sur 5 bulles
oct. 2018 • En couple
Visited her as we saw an advert for the exhibition about the Pogroms. So glad we did, such a small exhibition but the eyewitness testimonials were so moving and gave us a real understanding of what happened. The collection of letters and testimonials was so informative. Will be interesting to see what exhibition is there next time we visit. Many Thanks.
Écrit le 29 octobre 2018
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The Wiener Library est ouvert :
  • lun - lun 10:00 - 17:00
  • mar - mar 10:00 - 19:30
  • mer - ven 10:00 - 17:00