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Wiener Holocaust Library, the Glossary

The Wiener Holocaust Library is the world's oldest institution devoted to the study of the Holocaust, its causes and legacies.^[1]

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Alfred Wiener

Alfred Wiener (16 March 1885, Potsdam – 4 February 1964, London) was a German Jew who dedicated much of his life to documenting antisemitism and racism in Germany and Europe, and uncovering crimes of Germany's Nazi government. Wiener Holocaust Library and Alfred Wiener are Wiener Library.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.

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Antisemitism

Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against, Jews.

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Arolsen Archives - International Center on Nazi Persecution

The Arolsen Archives – International Center on Nazi Persecution formerly the International Tracing Service (ITS), in German Internationaler Suchdienst, in French Service International de Recherches in Bad Arolsen, Germany, is an internationally governed centre for documentation, information and research on Nazi persecution, forced labour and the Holocaust in Nazi Germany and its occupied regions. Wiener Holocaust Library and Arolsen Archives - International Center on Nazi Persecution are Jewish German history.

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Ben Barkow

Ben Barkow, (born 1956) is a writer and was the director of the Wiener Holocaust Library from 1998 to 2019. Wiener Holocaust Library and Ben Barkow are Wiener Library.

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Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

Bergen-Belsen, or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle.

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Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens

The Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (also: Zentral-Verein, Central Verein, CV, C.V., C.-V.) (Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith) was founded by German Jewish intellectuals on 26 March 1893 in Berlin, with the intention of opposing the rise of antisemitism in the German Empire. Wiener Holocaust Library and Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens are Jewish German history.

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Charitable organization

A charitable organization or charity is an organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. educational, religious or other activities serving the public interest or common good).

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Committee for Jewish Refugees (Netherlands)

The Committee for Jewish Refugees (Dutch: Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen) was a Dutch charitable organization that operated from 1933 to 1941. Wiener Holocaust Library and Committee for Jewish Refugees (Netherlands) are 1933 establishments in the Netherlands.

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David Cohen (historian)

David Cohen (31 December 1882, Deventer – 3 September 1967, Amsterdam) was a Dutch classicist and papyrologist and one of the two chairs of the (Joodse Raad, or Judenrat, of Amsterdam) during the occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.

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Ernst Fraenkel (businessman)

Ernst Fraenkel, OBE, (1923 – 13 November 2014) was a British businessman who was chairman and joint president of the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide (1990–2003). Wiener Holocaust Library and Ernst Fraenkel (businessman) are Wiener Library.

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Gedenkdienst

Gedenkdienst is a concept in Austria aimed at young people to face and take responsibility for the darkest chapters of the country's history while being financially supported by Austrian government. Wiener Holocaust Library and Gedenkdienst are Holocaust-related organizations.

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Genocide

Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people, either in whole or in part.

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History of the Jews in Germany

The history of the Jews in Germany goes back at least to the year 321 CE, and continued through the Early Middle Ages (5th to 10th centuries CE) and High Middle Ages (circa 1000–1299 CE) when Jewish immigrants founded the Ashkenazi Jewish community. Wiener Holocaust Library and history of the Jews in Germany are Jewish German history.

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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s) (Novemberpogrome), was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's nocat.

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Mirjam Finkelstein

Mirjam Finkelstein (née Wiener; 10 June 1933 – 28 January 2017) was a Holocaust survivor and educator.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Nazism

Nazism, formally National Socialism (NS; Nationalsozialismus), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.

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Neo-Nazism

Neo-Nazism comprises the post-World War II militant, social, and political movements that seek to revive and reinstate Nazi ideology.

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Russell Square

Russell Square is a large garden square in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden, built predominantly by the firm of James Burton.

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Serial (publishing)

In publishing and library and information science, the term serial is applied to materials "in any medium issued under the same title in a succession of discrete parts, usually numbered (or dated) and appearing at regular or irregular intervals with no predetermined conclusion." This includes the literary serial, where a story is published in several parts, but also all kinds of periodicals such as magazines and journals.

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SOAS University of London

The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS University of London) is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the federal University of London.

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Stephen Roth Institute

The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism is a research institute at Tel Aviv University in Israel.

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Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo (translit,; translit), usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel.

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Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University (TAU; אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, Universitat Tel Aviv, جامعة تل أبيب, Jami’at Tel Abib) is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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United Nations War Crimes Commission

The United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC), initially the United Nations Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes, was a United Nations body that aided the prosecution of war crimes committed by Nazi Germany and other Axis powers during World War II.

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WC postcode area

The WC (Western Central) postcode area, also known as the London WC postcode area, is a group of postcode districts in central London, England.

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Westerbork transit camp

Camp Westerbork (Kamp Westerbork, Durchgangslager Westerbork, Drents: Börker Kamp; Kamp Westerbörk), also known as Westerbork transit camp, was a Nazi transit camp in the province of Drenthe in the Northeastern Netherlands, during World War II.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener_Holocaust_Library

Also known as Central Jewish Information Office, Fraenkel Prize, Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History, Jewish Central Information Office, The Wiener Library Bulletin, Weiner Library, Wiener Library, Wiener Library Bulletin, Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide, Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Wiener Library, London.

Wiener Holocaust Library, the Glossary

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1933 establishments in the Netherlands

Academic libraries in London

Buildings and structures in Bloomsbury

Jewish British history

Jewish libraries

Libraries established in 1933

Libraries in the London Borough of Camden

London in World War II

Museums in the London Borough of Camden

Opposition to antisemitism in the United Kingdom

Wiener Library

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