Alfred Wiener and the Making of the Holocaust Library

The library and archive started in 1934 in Amsterdam, after Weiner emigrated from Germany and later moved to London. Contents: Part one: Alfred Wiener Early life and influences Palestine and controversy Last years in Germany Exile and after Part two: The Wiener library Germ of an idea Protocols, Frankfurter trial, Kristallnacht The war years: London ; New York 'A new type of research institute' Relaunch Nuremberg The Wiener library bulletin Eyewitness accounts Jerusalem End of the Wiener era Devonshire Street and unexpected calm The Eichmann trial Coping with losses Walter Laqueur and the Institute of contemporary history Crisis and Merger A renaissance