Digital Mapping - Digital Memory

February 7, 2024 | 3.00 PM CET on Zoom

This webinar was first scheduled for 14 December 2023, but was postponed due to illness. 7 February 2024 is the new date.

The Digital Memory Landscape Austria (DERLA) is a documentation and education project. It documents the places and signs of remembrance of the victims and places of terror of National Socialism in Austria and aims at a critical examination of National Socialism and fascism and the remembrance of them. The interdisciplinary cooperation project also aims to develop new concepts for digital remembrance education.

The expulsion and silencing of critical voices from Eastern Europe due to war and authoritarianism threaten to erode European knowledge communities in ways not seen since the academic emigrations of 1917 and 1933. In response to this fundamental threat to transnational knowledge building, the University of New Europe (UNE) is offering a mentoring programme for scholars, students, and cultural workers at risk.

International Conference | 18 June 2024 | Warsaw, Poland | Submission Deadline: 7 January 2024

The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure invites proposals for papers and interactive presentations at its international conference for archivists and researchers evaluating Holocaust-related research in the digital age, the current state of documentation and study of the Holocaust, and the role that EHRI plays in supporting and advancing these areas.

"I was born in the Soviet Ukraine. According to the memory politics of this state, we were not told anything about the Holocaust as children, and for a long time this topic was terra incognita for me. During school lessons about World War II, which was then called the “Great Fatherland War,” we heard about the victorious heroism of Soviet soldiers and the Red Army. But the voices of the victims sounded only faint and muffled—if they were heard at all."

EHRI has been very fortunate to be able to count on the expertise, dedication and commitment of our colleagues at Yad Vashem since its very beginning, and over the years we have made many new friends in Israel. We have been able to enjoy the generous hospitality offered by our Israeli colleagues on countless occasions, most recently during this year’s EHRI-3 General Partner Meeting in Jerusalem.

We also know that many members of the EHRI consortium have family, relatives and friends in the region and that many are mourning, or concerned about the safety of, their loved ones.

By Agnieszka Haska, Polish Center for Holocaust Research

From September 18-22, 2023, the Polish Center for Holocaust Research and the Center for Jewish Research, University of Lodz organized the five-day EHRI archival seminar “Microhistories of the Holocaust – methodology, sources, challenges, impact” at Lodz, Poland. Eleven scholars from Europe, Israel and the United States were invited to participate in the event to share experiences and discuss various problems in Holocaust research.

Join the webinar on October 25, 3:00 PM CET, free and without registration.

In 2004, the Polish Center for Holocaust Research created a free online database getto.pl with all the information on each known resident of the Warsaw Ghetto.

The main goal of this project was to use all information from a variety of published and some unpublished sources (diaries, testimonies, official documents, lists etc.) from many archives and gather it in one place, making it accessible and useful to other researchers, educators and the general public.

Release date: 5 October 2023 | More about the Podcast Series For the Living and the Dead. Traces of the Holocaust

In this episode, we talk about Simon Wiesenthal’s sunflowers, real ones, or artificial and made from paper or any other material. In 1969, well-known Holocaust survivor and author Simon Wiesenthal wrote The Sunflower. On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness. In this book, he recounted his experience with a mortally wounded Nazi soldier during World War II, and then asked prominent figures from politics, science and theology the question about what they would do under the circumstance.

The “Sunflower” in the title referred to Wiesenthal's observation of a German military cemetery, where he saw a sunflower on each grave, while he was imprisoned in the Janowska  concentration camp near Lviv and feared for his own body to end up in an unmarked mass grave.

International Conference | New documents from the Pontificate of Pope Pius XII and their Meaning for Jewish-Christian Relations: A Dialogue Between Historians and Theologians

Monday-Wednesday, October 9-11, 2023  | Aula Magna of the Pontifical Gregorian University Piazza della Pilotta 4, Rome, Italy

Registration is now open for the international conference New Documents from the Pontificate of Pope Pius XII and their Meaning for Jewish-Christian Relation: A Dialogue between Historians and Theologians. After its first announcement, last June, the conference aroused already widespread interest. Indeed, it aims to offer new light on the historical and theological controversies concerning Pope Pius XII and the Vatican during the Holocaust period, and on Jewish-Christian relations at multiple levels, thanks to important discoveries emerging from the analysis of the Vatican archives and to a strengthened collaboration between institutions and researchers.