Early Holocaust research, "Testimony" and the Wiener Library

The 1950s eyewitness accounts project that Dr. Eva Reichmann (Director of Research at the Wiener Library) led grew out of the Library's efforts to study and collect evidence about the rise of Nazism and antisemitism, efforts that began long before the Nazis came to power in 1933. The Library is generally recognised as having descended directly from the first organised attempt by Jews to record and document the Nazi persecution of Jewry