In the basement of the world’s oldest archive of the Holocaust, located in a townhouse on Russell Square in London, the latest artefact to join the Wiener Holocaust Library’s collection leans against a wall. “It is quite bulky so I don’t think anyone’s worked out where it is going to be stored”, said the head curator, Dr Barbara Warnock. There had been similar examples of antisemitic graffiti found around the capital in the weeks after the 7 October attacks in Israel. “I assume it was coordinated,” Warnock said of the defacing of schools, bus stops and synagogues at the time. A third Stolperstein is being installed for Wiener’s wife, Dr Margarete Wiener-Saulmann, who also worked at the JCIO.

Source: The Guardian January 23, 2024 12:49 UTC