New way of bearing witness: one of biggest Holocaust archives goes online

One of the world’s largest Holocaust archives is accessible online for the first time after a three-year digitisation of much of the collection. Announced on Holocaust Memorial Day, the Wiener Holocaust Library’s new online platform includes more than 150,000 items collected over nine decades. Users can view letters, pamphlets and photographs that record the rise of fascism in Britain and Europe. The director of the library, Dr Toby Simpson, said the project had been in the works for more than 10 years and he hoped it would help it find a new audience of scholars and become a “new way

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