Next month our International Tracing Service Archive Manager is taking part in the forthcoming Sheffield Jewish History Day at Sheffield Libraries

She will be delivering a session on researching Jewish #familyhistory using our ITS digital archive bit.ly/3ISszvg

This week in 1961 the trial of Adolf Eichmann began in Israel. He was charged on 15 counts, including crimes against Jewish and non-Jewish people and crimes against humanity

Discover what we hold in our Collections via our War Crimes Trials Subject Guide: bit.ly/3mLnZU1

#OnThisDay in 1945, #Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated by the US Army. They found only a few hundred surviving prisoners remaining in the camp, mostly the sick or dying

📷 An unknown survivor sits in front of the Boelcke barracks after liberation, Nordhausen, 1945

Our archive contains many collections of Nazi-era family letters.

Our latest online exhibition, #HolocaustLetters , offers an opportunity to experience these unique documents and find out what Jewish persecutees knew about events unfolding around them bit.ly/4axAfPT

'Chaos at Buchenwald; mass exterminations by the SS.'

#OnThisDay in 1945, Szymon Szafir was liberated from Buchenwald by the US Army. In the weeks leading up to liberation, 50,000 prisoners were murdered. He gave this testimony to the Library in 1956 bit.ly/37b6595

Do you know who was Karen Jeppe?
Between 1921 and 1930, 1,880 Armenian survivors who had escaped genocidal captivity were taken in by Karen Jeppe’s Rescue Home, on the outskirts of Aleppo.

There are some forthcoming changes to our usual opening hours

Please check our website before your visit for up to date information: bit.ly/3XXuF3c

80 years ago today, #RudolfVrba escaped from Auschwitz concentration camp

Listen to Jonathan Freedland reading Vrba’s eyewitness testimony from the camp, acquired by Library researchers in the 1950s, detailing the moment he knew he had to warn the world about what was happening there…

#OnThisDay in 1944, Rudolf Vrba & Alfréd Wetzler escaped from Auschwitz. Their joint report 'The Auschwitz Protocols' was one of the earliest and most detailed descriptions of the mass killings taking place in the camp

In 1958 Vrba gave his testimony to the Library's researchers

80 years ago today, #RudolfVrba escaped from Auschwitz concentration camp

Listen to Jonathan Freedland reading Vrba’s eyewitness testimony from the camp, acquired by Library researchers in the 1950s, detailing the moment he knew he had to warn the world about what was happening there…

There are some forthcoming changes to our usual opening hours

Please check our website before your visit for up to date information: bit.ly/3XXuF3c

Tonight our friends Waging Peace 🧡 launch an important new book featuring drawings made by child survivors of the genocide in #Darfur , which are now held in our collection

#KeepEyesOnSudan

As part of our efforts to make even more of our collections accessible to people around the world, we’re proud to present our new virtual exhibition.

This online version of #HolocaustLetters explores some of the most significant items from the curation bit.ly/4axAfPT

'The journey of my life has been the constant search for escape from the feelings of insecurity as a refugee, which has never gone away' The Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/202…