Wiener Library Special Exhibition

A is for Adolf
Teaching German Children Nazi Values

The Library's first exhibition puts on public display for the first time some of our unique collection of children's books, games and toys to illustrate the depth and complexity of propaganda targeted at young children under the Nazi regime.

Admission Free

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.

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