# The Wiener Holocaust Library

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 313015
- **Other names:** INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY AND WIENER LIBRARY LTD, THE WIENER LIBRARY INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY, The Wiener Holocaust Library Limited, THE WIENER LIBRARY
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Registered:** Sept. 20, 1967
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=313015


## Contact

- **Address:** 29 Russell Square, LONDON
- **Postcode:** WC1B 5DP
- **Phone:** 02076367247
- **Email:** info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
- **Website:** www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org



## Activities

**Objects:** TO ADVANCE THE STUDY AND KNOWLEDGE OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, PARTICULARLY THE STUDY AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE

**Activities:** The Wiener Library is one of the world's leading archives on the Holocaust and Nazi era. Formed in 1933, its unique collection of over one million items includes published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs and eyewitness testimony. It is dedicated to supporting research, learning, teaching and advocacy about the Holocaust and genocide, their causes and consequences.

**Area of benefit:** NOT DEFINED.




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Sponsors Or Undertakes Research, Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- **What:** Education/training
- **Who:** The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Throughout England And Wales



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. 31, 2024 | £2141979 | £2065813 | £8188487 | 24 |
| Dec. 31, 2023 | £2414359 | £1687410 | £7939472 | 23 |
| Dec. 31, 2022 | £1339422 | £1511587 | £7115689 | 24 |
| Dec. 31, 2021 | £1327744 | £1200004 | £7898110 | 20 |
| Dec. 31, 2020 | £2007338 | £995854 | £7394812 | 18 |



## Trustees

- CATHERINE COLLOMS — appointed May 10, 2018
- Daniel Peltz — appointed Oct. 17, 2024
- Howard Steven Lewis — appointed Oct. 18, 2023
- JOHN ALFRED GEORGE ALEXANDER — appointed July 31, 2024
- Lizzie Marx — appointed May 10, 2018
- Mary Jean Alexandra Fulbrook — appointed Oct. 17, 2024
- PROFESSOR WILLIAM HOWARD SHERMAN — appointed April 24, 2025
- Peter Charles Oppenheimer — appointed Jan. 1, 2026
- Professor Sir Richard John Evans — appointed April 24, 2025