The Szloma Albam Library is the information center of Touro College Berlin.
It responds to the frequent visits from students and staff each working day, providing textbook and reference collections on open access as well as course materials and a vast range of virtual material available online.

The holdings support the courses and curriculum topics offered, and serve as a basis to students’ study and research on campus.

The Szloma Albam Library includes about 5,500 items on the following subjects:

Business Studies
Economics, Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Management and Business, Mathematics, Computer Concepts

Liberal Arts
American History and Politics, Western Civilization, Philosophy

Jewish Studies
History, Religion, Ritual Law, Literature, Art and Philosophy, Holocaust

Languages  
English and Hebrew

and a special collection, the “Henry Marx Collection”, to support the M.A. program „Holocaust Communication and Tolerance“.

In addition, the Szloma Albam Library provides access and use of the Virtual Library of Touro College New York, which offers more than 45,000 ebooks and 68 databases (all relevant periodicals for business studies can be found here).
The databases can be accessed directly on campus, and off campus with a login and password.

Touro College Berlin is honored to possess the Henry Marx Collection, the private library of Henry Marx which his widow Mrs. Carin Drechsler-Marx donated to the Lander Institute for Communication about the Holocaust and Tolerance.

The journalist Henry Marx (November 3, 1911 - June 22, 1994) was born in Brussels. He lived from 1926 to 1937 in Berlin where he completed his secondary education and continued as a law student at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (now Humboldt University).

As Hitler seized power, Henry Marx was prevented from writing his final exam which would have completed his studies in law. On June 22, 1934, Henry Marx was denounced. The state police Gestapo arrested him and subsequently imprisoned him in the concentration camps of Oranienburg and Lichtenburg.
After his release he managed to immigrate to the United States where he became part of the editorial staff of the “New Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold”, a newspaper established in 1834. At the same time he studied literature, history and politics at Washington Square College, a part of New York University.

Henry Marx was a prominent figure in New York’s German cultural circles and fostered a particular interest in the history of German theatre in exile. For more than 16 years he worked for the Goethe Institute in New York, advancing German-American understanding. During the last decade of his life, Henry Marx worked as editor in chief for the German-Jewish newspaper Aufbau, the third one in its six-decade history. 

The Henry Marx Collection consists of nearly 1,300 volumes covering subjects on American and German Jewry, persecution, resistance, exile, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. It constitutes the founding stock for that part of the Szloma Albam Library which serves the needs of the Lander Institute.