The Library's Collections
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust holds one of the largest collections of documents related to the Nazi Era and its aftermath.
It comprises two sections: the Archive and the Library.
Books and journals on the following topics:
- Racial theories and European anti-Semitism
- World War I (mainly Germany)
- European and German Jewry in the interwar period
- German history in the interwar period
- Nazi ideology and Nazi leaders
- The Nazi rise to power and its propaganda
- Anti-Nazi propaganda
- Cultural (art, motion pictures, architecture, theater, literature) in Nazi Germany
- World War II
- Anti-Jewish policy and persecution in Germany and in the occupied countries
- Conduct of the Germans and their assistants towards the local population in the occupied countries
- Flight, emigration and DP camps (before, during and after WWII)
- Ghettos and camps (transit, concentration, labor and death camps)
- Reactions to the persecution and annihilation of the Jews in the Nazi sphere of influence and in the Free World (cooperation with the Nazis, indifference , help, and rescue)
- Responses of Jewish communities, (resistance, underground, and partisans)
- War trials (Nuremberg, Tokyo, Eichmann, trials in East and West Germany)
- Memory and commemoration of the Holocaust
- Holocaust denial
- German - Israeli relations, including reparations
- Genocide
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