Harry potter library london6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() In addition to an extensive collection of books on refugees, genocide and war criminals, the second floor also holds examples of propaganda, an 18th-century Torah scroll saved from destruction in Prague and private reading desks. Up the stairs, visitors are greeted by a touching wall of honour to memorialise a loved one who has inspired them. ![]() It’s a quiet airy space, with maps of the death marches displayed on the ground level along with original letters written in 1949 by children searching for parents sent to the concentration camps. Founded in 1933 by Dr Alfred Wiener, it has a collection of 1,300 testimonies taken during the Holocaust as well as documents relating to the 1938 November Pogrom. Housed in a Grade II-listed terrace on leafy Russell Square, the Wiener Holocaust Library is one of the world’s leading archives of the period, holding works that pre-date the Holocaust. ![]()
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