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.

with Jonathan Matthews, former Head of Yad Vashem's Photo Archives

April 9^th, 2024 at 2:30 - 3:30 PM CET

The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) and partner Yad Vashem invite you to a unique online lecture, which will discuss and dissect ongoing and new issues within the world of Holocaust photography collections. 

The lecture is aimed at (photo) archivists, historians or researchers working with photographs.

July 29-Aug 2, 2024 | Washington D.C., US | Applications due: March 31, 2024

New Methods for Archival Research

This in-person workshop will allow participants to explore a recently developed research guide that highlights the diversity and scope of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s (USHMM) archival collections that relate to religion (broadly defined). 

14 March, 9:30 AM - 5 PM CET | Het Trippenhuis, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

The archaeological research at the site of the former Nazi extermination Camp Sobibor, which began in 2000 and continued until 2020, represents the most extensive archaeological excavations to have been held at a Holocaust site. For this symposium, EHRI coordinator NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies is bringing together an international group of interdisciplinary scholars to shed light on archaeological research on Sobibor and its broader context from multiple perspectives.

From Urban Legend to Documented Fact: The History and Memory of the Jewish Ghetto and the Holocaust in Kherson

In this new EHRI Document Blogpost, Yurii Kaparulin traces the history of the Kherson ghetto and the mass murders, as well as the investigation of the crimes after the liberation. It also describes the efforts made in recent years to document and commemorate the victims of the Nazi regime in Kherson.

European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) Workshop

Organized by the German Federal Archives in cooperation with the Jewish Community of Novi Sad |Date: May 28-30, 2024 |  Venue: Jewish Community Novi Sad, Serbia (Jevrejska 11, 21 000 Novi Sad) | Application Deadline (EXTENDED): 15 April 2024

I. Workshop description

The Federal Archives is partner in the transnational project EHRI (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure) funded by the European Union under the European scheme Horizon2020.

An Online Source Edition on Everyday Life of Occupied Societies during the Second World War

EHRI Webinar | 20 March 2024 | 3:00 PM CET | On Zoom

During the Second World War, approximately 230 million people in 27 countries lived under German occupation. Despite these high numbers, the German public knows very little about the experiences of the occupied societies throughout Europe. The Online Portal “Societies under German Occupation” ties in here and provides sources on everyday life of occupied societies during the Second World War, with a specific focus on dealing with hunger and scarcity.

Using Digital Tools and Methods to Facilitate Holocaust Research

By Florine Miez, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute

The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) hosted the EHRI Methodology Seminar “What’s New in Austrian Holocaust research? Digital Tools & Methods” from January 16-18, 2024. The participants came to the VWI from Israel, USA, Sweden, Romania, the Czech Republic and also Vienna to spend three days learning about the latest developments in Austrian Holocaust research and new methods.

A Story That Is Still Unfolding

Visar Malaj's blogpost focuses on documents found in the collection of the EHRI partner Fondazione Centro Di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea (CDEC) in Milan during his Conny Kristel Fellowship for his research on the fate of local and foreign Jews in Albania during the Holocaust.

Listening to an episode of the EHRI Podcast Series For the Living and the Dead. Traces of the Holocaust could be a quiet and meaningful way to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January.  

The second season has six episodes that you can tune into here. Visit the EHRI Podcast Homepage for all episodes.