Anne Frank Shoah Library

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Anne Frank Shoah Library (2013)

The Anne Frank Shoah Library is an international research and special library on the Holocaust . It is connected to the Shoah reading room of the German National Library (DNB) in Leipzig .

The library, named after the Holocaust victim Anne Frank , was founded on June 23, 1992 at the instigation of the Anne Frank Fund (AFF) in Basel. Vincent C. Frank-Steiner , chairman of the AFF, brought his request to the then President of the People's Chamber of the GDR, Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (CDU), in 1990 . He received support from the Jewish organization B'nai B'rith , the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the Federal Ministry of the Interior as well as from publishers and other personalities. The aim was to make the literature on the National Socialist persecution and murder of the Jews as well as the persecution of ethnic , political, religious and other minorities accessible and accessible in order to support scientific and research work in particular. The library is aimed at researchers, scientists, students, educators, pupils, etc.

The holdings are listed in the union catalog of the Association of Memorial Libraries (AGGB). It contains more than 14,000 titles and 30,000 pieces of data, including reference works, scientific books, educational literature, books for children and young people, newspapers and magazines, audiovisual media, cards and posters, etc. Microfilms may contain information such as: a. The Testaments of the Holocaust ( Wiener Library ) and Archives of the Destruction ( Yad Vashem ) available. You can access the catalog of the Leo Baeck Institute in New York, the memorial book of the Federal Archives for the victims of the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany 1933–1945 and the information portal on forced labor under National Socialism of the Federal Archives in Koblenz.

In 1994 the photographs The Invisible Camps were shown. The disappearance of the past in memory of Reinhard Matz . In 2004, Mirjam Pressler opened the exhibition Telling Children About Fascism: Children's and Youth Literature on National Socialism and the Holocaust , in which around 200 titles from the library's holdings were shown. The library also supported the “rolling exhibition” Train of Remembrance from Poland and Germany. Other partnerships exist with the Ephraim Carlebach Foundation , the Jewish Weeks in Leipzig , the Working Group on Jewish Collections in Germany , the House of the Wannsee Conference Memorial , the Anne Frank Center and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum .

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