Founded:

1933

Dissolved:

1939

Alfred Wiener and his family fled Germany in 1933 and settled in Amsterdam. Later that year he set up the Jewish Central Information Office (JCIO) at the request of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Anglo-Jewish Association. This archive collected information about the Nazis, which formed the basis of campaigns to undermine their activities.

Following the November Pogroms of 1938, Wiener prepared to bring his collection to the UK, where it arrived the following summer.

Mentioned in

• Eva G. Reichmann (1897–1998) (Christine Schmidt)