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Online-Exhibitions
Very pleasing additions
“Very pleasing additions” - this is how library director Gustav Wahl described a series of valuable acquisitions in 1942, including a large collection of autographs “from the possession of an evacuated Jew". What exactly did that mean? And on a broader scale: Where did our library acquire its special materials during the Nazi era? To what extent did it benefit from forced sales by Jewish collectors? Our 2024 German-language online exhibition "Sehr erfreuliche Vermehrungen" addresses these questions. It is based on a special exhibition at the Hamburg State and University Library that was shown in the summer of 2022.
Very desirable as a whole
This 2014 German-language online exhibition is a digital version of the major special exhibition "Im Ganzen sehr erwünscht" (Very desirable as a whole) which was shown at the Hamburg State and University Library in 2012. It presents the central results of our research into Nazi-looted books. It also sheds a light on the history of the library between 1933 and 1945.
Stolen rarities dressed in silk
In July 2013, the SUB Hamburg restituted the library of Helene and Ignatz Petschek to their great-granddaughter Mrs. Helene Petschek-Kohn. Our German-language online exhibition tells the story of this special library and provides an insight into the research on Nazi-looted property at the Stabi.
A book belonging to Marie
In November 2008, the exhibition "Looted Books - Nazi Looted Property at the Hamburg State and University Library" was opened, presenting the results of provenance research at our library for the first time. The focus was on the books of Marie May Reiss. This small German-language online exhibition is dedicated to Marie and to her books.