Re-launched website explores one of the ‘darkest chapters of human history’
THE Wiener Holocaust Library
has re-launched The Holocaust Ex- plained website to help children to better understand events from the time and the continued impact. Now the library has relaunched the web- site, which was first created in 2011 by the London Jewish Cultural Centre. The original project was led by Alan Fell, who developed it alongside Garry Clarkson. The website is now being managed by
the Wiener Holocaust Library, which de- scribes it as being “created to help learn- ers understand the essential facts of the Nazi era and the Holocaust, as well as its causes and consequences.”
Roxzann Baker, Project Coordinator,
who has been in charge of researching and rewriting The Holocaust Explained, said: “We are thrilled to be relaunching The Holocaust Explained. The Holocaust is one of the darkest chapters of human his- tory and having an engaging resource that delicately explores this topic in a reliable and accessible way for children is essential. The outreach potential of this website is endless and I hope that the site continues to grow and showcase the compelling and rare documents in The Wiener Holocaust Library’s archives to vast new audiences.” The website is designed around the British school curriculum for 13-18 year olds and features a wide range of content including text, images and videos. Among the many articles and resources on the website are eight testimonies from Holocaust survivors, each of whom talks about their experience –
This pamphlet was published by Szmul Zygielbojm, a Polish Jewish politician and refugee in September 1942. Weiner Holocaust Library Collections.
Alice Stern’s Jewish indetifica- tion card from the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Weiner Holocaust Library Collections.
in terms of living through the Nazi era as well as life after the war.
The website sets out to look at the origins of Holocaust in the context of Nazi era Germany, and expands on topics such as the rise of the Nazis, antisemitism; life in the ghettos and camps; responses to the Holocaust; and survival and legacy. The London-based library, which is named
after Dr Alfred Wiener, a German Jew who was a prominent and vocal opponent of right-wing antisemitism that was taking hold in Germany in the 1920s. The library grew from Dr Wiener’s work to collect and archive about the Nazis, which he used as a basis to counteract and undermine their activities. That archive was later
An election poster supporting Adolf Hitler from the 1932 Reichspäsident elections. Weiner Holocaust Library Collections.
destroyed, but Dr Wiener created a sec- ond collection, which was eventually shipped to the UK leading to the creation of the Wiener Holocaust Library in its present form. The library now houses one of the largest and best-regarded collec- tions of information about the Holocaust and the Nazi era.
The library’s mission is threefold – firstly to serve scholars, researchers the media and the public looking for informa- tion about Holocaust; secondly to serve as a memorial to the evils of the past; and thirdly to engage with people and help foster an understanding of the Holocaust through education. l
www.theholocaustexplained.org
Bradford diverts health cash to libraries
BRADFORD council aims to divert £700,000 from its Wellbeing budget into public libraries as part of a major rethink of its library service model. The council said that it’s original plans to cut ser- vices and find £1.05 million in savings changed after feedback from its libraries Engagement Findings. “This feedback from our outreach has resulted in the Council re-assessing our budget considerations and savings of £1.05m which were required for Brad- ford Council’s library service for 2020-21 are now being partly met by a base budget of £700k from Public Health, subject to approval following consultation.” The new model is based on Universal Offers and the proposals will be under con-
March 2020 sultation until 15 March.
The council said the new model “will rely on the council being able to allocate funds from Public Health and Social Care to libraries to support their outcomes”. Funding from the council’s Public Health funds could be used “for the support of four health outcomes including tackling poverty, addressing social isolation, assisting people back into employment, and helping school readiness”. Similarly, Social Care funding could sup- port funding for libraries’ day care provision and employment including back to work programmes.
The consultation said: “As local govern- ment funding remains hard to predict, making the service financially sustainable
through other sources will be the best pro- tection in the future.”
It said it would “explore opportunities for council partners to make use of the library premises in return for funding. These may include health partners, employment ser- vices, police, and voluntary and community sector organisations.” A number of ‘traded income’ options were also suggested including venue hire, vending machines, Amazon pick up points and cof- fee shops, with the council saying: “We will explore whether these can be implemented without impacting the quality of the service our library provide.”
The council will also be “identifying and securing grant funding from a range of sources, including through the Arts Council.”
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