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Jewish Life in the Baltic Region Before, During, and After the Holocaust | 2-5 September 2024 | Riga, Latvia

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia, and the Museum “Jews in Latvia” are pleased to invite applications for an international conference entitled, "Jewish Life in the Baltic Region Before, During, and After the Holocaust." The conference is scheduled for September 2-5, 2024, in Riga, Latvia.

By Florine Miez, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI)

The full-day workshop "EHRI and Micro-Archives in Austria" took place at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies on 4 March 2024. The Institute presented EHRI's plans to improve support for micro-archives and invited Austrian micro-archive owners and experts to discuss the opportunities and challenges of collaboration.In the keynote speech by Franziska Schubert (Arolsen Archives), the importance of EHRI and its projects for micro-archives was explained.

The EHRI Seminar Recent Research, Resources and Holocaust Memory in Romania held in Bucharest, February 20-22, 2024, was organized by the Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania with the support of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Ten participants from Europe and the United States, including master's and PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, museum professionals, and educators, attended the seminar.

Last month, EHRI has launched a new series of survivors’ testimonies recorded before 1960. The second EHRI Online Edition, the Early Holocaust Testimony, has been expanded by these unique documents written in the Yiddish language. Users can follow both versions – the nowadays rarely used and studied Yiddish original and the English translation – to explore the early memories of the Holocaust across Europe, like in this testimony of a 15-year-old Jewish boy describing the German invasion of Wyszków:

Date: 18 September 2024 - 19 September 2024, 10:00AM - 6:00PM GMT | Location: Bedford Room, G37, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London, UK | Deadline: 22 March 2024

Bestselling novels such as Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated (2002, film adaptation 2005), Jonathan Littell’s Les Bienveillantes (2006, The Kindly Ones, 2009) and Katja Petrowskaja’s Vielleicht Esther (2014, Maybe Esther, 2018) have increased public and scholarly discussion of Holocaust mass shootings and their remembrance, yet remain notable exceptions to an overall scarcity of representations of these atrocities. For the most part, literary, cinematic and artistic depictions of mass shootings have been belated, schematic and often at the margins of works dealing with other themes or with other facets of the Holocaust. While specific events, such as the Babi Jar massacre of September 1941, have found their place in memory and art, many more events are still being recovered for commemoration. 

Organised by Centrum für Jüdische Studien, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz; Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien (VWI) | 11-12 December 2023 | Graz Austria

by Florine Miez, Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien

From the beginning, writing about the Holocaust has been shaped by considerations of form, questions of different media and genres as well as the limits of language. This second EHRI-AT Conference brought together debates about ego-documents and reflections on Holocaust literature and asked about the challenges that these different texts/materials pose for archives, edition projects as well as in the field of Holocaust education.