Today the Wiener Holocaust Library launched Wiener Digital Collections, a new online platform allowing readers around the world access to digital copies of many of The Wiener’s most important collections: https://whlcollections.org/index/ Wiener Digital Collections will provide free access to crucial documents, photos, transcripts, and testimonies that have been digitised over the past three years. The work to digitise collections from this vast archive will continue, and the availability of documents and photographs online will grow over the coming years – at a rate of 100,000 pages per year. To find out more about this ground-breaking new site, please join us on 5 February 2025, 6.30pm, for an online event - register to attend here: https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/online-launch-event-wiener-digital-collections/ The Wiener Holocaust Library is the world’s oldest and Britain’s largest collection of original archival material on pre-war Jewish life, the Nazi era and the Holocaust. The Wiener is home to hundreds of thousands of documents, letters, photographs, press cuttings, books, pamphlets, periodicals and unpublished manuscripts and memoirs, posters, artworks, and eyewitness testimonies. Wiener Digital Collections enables online access to some of our most important collections, including documents used in evidence at the Nuremberg Trials, the family papers of Jewish refugees, photos taken at the Litzmannstadt Ghetto, JCIO reports, and responses to Nazism and fascism in Germany, Britain and beyond. The Library's founder, Dr Alfred Wiener recognised the Nazi threat early on and campaigned against Nazism in the 1920s and 1930s. After fleeing Germany for Amsterdam in 1933, he founded the Jewish Central Information Office (JCIO) at the request of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Anglo-Jewish Association, collecting information about Nazi persecution. He brought his collection to Britain shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, where it became known as ‘Dr Wiener’s Library’.