Release date: 24 November 2022 | More about the Podcast Series For the Living and the Dead. Traces of the Holocaust

In this episode, we talk about a photograph on the cover of a French magazine from 1938, showing two destitute looking women, stuck in so called No-Man’s Land. At the end of the 1930s, the emergence of “No Man’s Lands” symbolized the desperate situation of Jewish refugees who were expelled from countries throughout  East and Central Europe. Photos, testimonies and other source material that give a voice to survivors who stayed in these No Man’s Lands are scarce. However, Gerard Friedenfeld, who in 1938 found himself trapped in one of the No-Man’s Lands as a 14 year old boy, has given a harrowing account of his experiences and we can listen to his testimony.

Host Katharina Freise is joined by Michal Frankl, Senior Researcher at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, who investigates No-Man’s Lands and the fate  of the refugees who ended up in these desolate places.

Wednesday 7 December 3:00 - 4:30 PM CET | Zoom

The fourth EHRI webinar of this year will feature Aneta Plzáková and Daniela Bartáková, both from the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. They are actively involved in the making of the web application "MemoGIS Prague". 

"MemoGIS Prague" describes the fates of the Holocaust victims from Prague. It interprets and analyses the data gathered in the Holocaust Victims Database managed by the Terezín Initiative Institute, which contains, among other things, digitized copies of selected documents from the Prague Police Directorate's fund. By connecting historical information with the map of Prague, this application helps users to study the segregation and persecution of Jewish inhabitants through space.

On November 2-4, 2022, the EHRI Seminar: "A Multilevel Approach to the Holocaust in Romania", organized by the "Elie Wiesel" National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, took place in Bucharest, Romania.

The 3-day seminar provided an overview of methods, sources, new research topics, and approaches to the Holocaust in Romania. The schedule included speakers from Israel, Romania, the USA, and England.

10-11 May 2023, Wiener Holocaust Library, London, UK | Deadline for submission: 31 January 2023

This two-day, in-person symposium organised by The Wiener Holocaust Library and the University of Cambridge, taking place at the Library on the 10th-11th May 2023, will bring together early career researchers with senior academics to discuss new directions in the study of the Roma genocide.

In recent years, scholars have turned their attention to the experiences of persecuted Romani individuals and families, producing research that seeks to restore the agency and the voices of Roma victims of genocide, and contest narratives of anonymous mass victimhood. This has included increased research on resistance, memory, and memorialisation, as well as an interest in the post war legacy of the Roma genocide and its links to the persistent discrimination against Roma and Sinti communities.

Release date: 10 November 2022 | More about the Podcast Series For the Living and the Dead. Traces of the Holocaust

In this episode we are presenting a story from Belgium, that of Norbert Vos, his family and his teddy bear. Norbert Vos was still a baby when on 10 May 1940 Germany invaded and occupied Belgium. The family was Jewish and the danger to them was imminent. After an attempt to flee, Norbert’s mother, Lea, found herself alone with her baby boy; her parents and husband were already deported. To save her life and that of Norbert, Lea knew she had to go into hiding and she desperately tried to find a place. After several disastrous attempts, she and Norbert, almost by chance, finally found a relatively safe haven with a café-owner and his wife and daughter. It was with this family that they managed to survive the war, and that Norbert received a present from the little girl of the family: a teddy bear, a gift that he and the girl would hold on to for the rest of their lives until they donated it to Kazerne Dossin.

November 10, 6:30 PM (Kyiv Time) 

EHRI partner the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe  in Ukraine invites you to the online-presentation "German Historians and Russia's War against Ukraine - The significance of this debate for collaboration in the field of digital humanities" with Peter Haslinger, who is Director of the Herder Institute Marburg and Professor of History of Eastern Europe at the Giessen Center for Eastern European Studies.

The event is part of the programme series "Source as a choice" on documenting the experience of violence and warfare, organized by the Center for Urban History in cooperation with EHRI.

Applications are due on December 31, 2022.

USC Shoah Foundation invites applications from advanced-level PhD candidates for the 2023-2024 USC Shoah Foundation Robert J. Katz Research Fellowship in Antisemitism Studies.

Deadline for submission: January 23, 2023

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Archives is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications for its 2023 fellowship program. In 2023, three to six fellowships will be awarded to senior scholars, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and independent researchers to conduct research in the JDC Archives, either in New York or in Jerusalem.  The archives' finding aids can be consulted to identify relevant areas. The fellowship awards are $2,500 and the deadline for submission is January 23, 2023.

EHRI Partner, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is a federally chartered, nonpartisan institution that was created by the US Congress to serve as America’s national memorial to the victims of the Holocaust and an educational institution dedicated to the history and lessons of the Holocaust.

Tracing the Dislocation of a Sinti Family in a Genocidal Context: the R165 Collection of the German Federal Archives

The latest EHRI Blogpost, written by EHRI fellow Théophile Leroy, introduces a collection held at the German Bundesarchiv of importance for the Sinti and Roma genocide.

Racial research conducted by the Rassenhygienische Forschungsstelle from the late 1930s was used by the criminal police authorities to identify and deport individuals labeled as “Gypsies” and to achieve the Sinti and Roma genocide. The post follows the story of a Rhineland Sinti family and maps their persecution trajectories.