November 14-16, 2022 | Tel Aviv University, Israel 

You are invited to register for In-Person or Online Participation in the International Conference 70 Years of Holocaust Compensation and Restitution, organised by EHRI partner Yad Vashem, and Tel Aviv University, the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center and supported by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference). 

Please find the programme and registration here.

Release date: 27 October 2022 | More about the Podcast Series For the Living and the Dead. Traces of the Holocaust

In this episode, we will talk about mica-flakes, objects of little monetary value that were kept by survivors from the Theresienstadt Ghetto.  Also known as glimmer, the flakes, shiny glass-like, thin mineral sheets, were sliced from rocks with razor sharp blades by the women of the ghetto under forced labour conditions.

Starting immediately, 30 hours/week | Limited until 30 September 2024

Application deadline: 6 November 2022

EHRI is a multinational consortium aiming to develop a sustainable, state-of-the-art research infrastructure for European Holocaust research, while working to integrate and link up the repositories and expertise of archives, libraries, museums, memorials, and research institutions holding Holocaust-related sources. EHRI is implemented at the international level through several Horizon 2020 projects and in Austria at the national level through EHRI-AT, a third project funded by the BMBWF (The Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research).

We would like to invite you to the online seminar "Dream sequences in war films". The event is part of the public program on documenting the experience of violence and warfare "Source as a choice," organized by our partner the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv, in cooperation with EHRI.

During the seminar, Dr. Billy Glew will discuss dream sequences and how they allow filmmakers to convey a rich variety of emotions and narrative information to the audience which can otherwise be difficult to express.

On October 3-7, 2022, the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe co-organized the EHRI online seminar "Documenting the War. Past and Present". Initially, the seminar was designed to focus on the history of the Lviv ghetto and public outreach approaches using digital mapping and storytelling tools. However, because of the new realities in Ukraine after the full-scale Russian invasion on February 24, 2022, we decided to change its framework. The seminar focused on the challenges of documenting, researching and teaching the history of the Holocaust and World War II against the background of living, witnessing, and documenting the Russian war against Ukraine.

Release date: 13 October 2022 | More about the Podcast Series For the Living and the Dead. Traces of the Holocaust

In this podcast episode, we present the story of two Romanian boys, Sorel and Marcu Rozen, and a simple postcard. The Rozen family, made up of a grandmother, parents and two children, were deported from Dorohoi (a town in Northern Romania) in October 1941 to the Ghetto of Shargorod in Transnistria (now a Russian occupied part of Moldavia). Marcu and Sorel were 11 and 5 years old.

This new EHRI blogpost “My Experience of Studying the Holocaust” by pioneering scholar in the field of Holocaust Studies in Ukraine, Alexander Kruglov, explores first attempts and further developments in Holocaust research in Ukraine. It gives a concise overview of historiography, of the availability of the archival sources and about the publication process. This post uncovers the challenges of an East European scholar in Holocaust research and the extensive turn in this field in Ukraine after 1991. 

Conference date: 23-25 April, 2023 (Sunday-Tuesday) | Location: POLIN Museum, Warsaw, Poland | Applications in English until 27 November, 2022.

The conference’s aim is to identify and describe the Jewish experience of life amidst the imminent threat of destruction during the Holocaust. The conference marks the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Would you like to know more about the tragedy that occurred at Babyn Yar on 29 and 30 September 81 years ago? You can read more in the Chapter "German Mass Shootings" from the EHRI Online Course in Holocaust Studies' topic Holocaust in Ukraine. The chapter contains photos of Babyn Yar and Kyiv taken not long after the massacre. 

Karel Berkhoff also talks about Babyn Yar in a podcast by EHRI partner Yad Vashem, where he relates the unimaginable story of Dina Pronicheva, one of the very few to survivors of the horrific event. You can listen to it here What Happened at Babi Yar?

András Szécsényi is a research fellow in the Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security (Budapest) and holds a Ph.D. degree from ELTE (Budapest). He has worked as Head of Collections in the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest between 2005 and 2017. He is currently working on a research project about the history of the Hungarian inmates of Bergen-Belsen (1944–1945) and its political-societal contexts. As such he came to the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam as an EHRI Conny Kristel Fellow. He tells us:

I have been researching the history of those Hungarian Jewish citizens who were deported from Hungary to Bergen-Belsen in 1944/1945 for years.