Alfred Wiener

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Alfred Wiener (1885-1964) was a German Jew who dedicated much of his life to documenting antisemitism and racism in Germany and Europe, and uncovering crimes of Germany's Nazi government. He trained as an Arabist and spent 1909-1911 in the Middle East. He is best known as founder and long-time director of the Wiener Library. The Wiener Holocaust Library is Britain's largest collection of printed and archival material covering the Holocaust and genocide. Ben Barkow is a writer and translator and was the director of the Wiener Holocaust Library from 2000 to 2019.