Anne Frank Shoah Library Leipzig

My next post is about the “Anne Frank Shoah Library” which was opened in 1992. It is a kind of special collection at the Leipzig location of the “German National Library”. I have decided to do so because this topic is close to my heart.
For my research I was looking through the catalogue of the “Australian National Library”. My search with the keywords ‘Anne Frank Shoah’ returned one book item dealing with this subject, but unfortunately the book is written in German and not yet held at any Australian library. Therefore the foundation for this entry will be the website of the “German National Library”.

German National Library

There can also be found a brochure on the “Anne Frank Shoah Library” on the library’s website:

Brochure on Anne Frank Shoah Library

Here are my findings:

The “Anne Frank Shoah Library” is an international research library for the documentation of the Holocaust. Its objective is to collect, index and make available literature from all over the world on the persecution of the Jews under the regime of National Socialism in Germany and making it available to interested users. The collection also comprises publications on the persecution of other minorities - documents about people persecuted on the basis of ethnic, political, religious, medical and other motivations.

The “Anne Frank Shoah Library” makes a significant contribution to the dissemination of literature on the Holocaust in keeping with its self-imposed obligation to serve as a living memorial library.

It is unlikely that an exhaustive collection of all publications related to the Shoah (Hebrew for "catastrophe" or "annihilation") can be compiled in the foreseeable future. Thus the library also focuses its efforts on the evaluation of bibliographies and numerous other source materials.

The collection of the “Anne Frank Shoah Library” currently comprises about 12,000 books, periodicals, audio-visual media, maps and other materials available for use in the special reading room. The collection as well as the about 22,000 bibliographic citations are catalogued alphabetically and by subject in a database. The catalogue can be found with the following link:

Catalogue of the Anne Frank Shoah Library

The “Anne Frank Shoah Library” is in contact with numerous institutions in Germany and abroad, e.g. the Anne-Frank-House in Amsterdam.

As I couldn’t find a suitable video about any of the three locations of the “German National Library”, I focused my search on “Anne Frank” and found that short video clip about the “Anne Frank House in Amsterdam”.