EHRI partner the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) invites applications for its fellowships for the academic year 2013/2014, beginning October 1, 2013.

Between 17 and 21 December 2012 EHRI partner the International Tracing Service hosted a workshop convened within the framework of the Work Package for Standards and Guidelines of the EHRI project.

I was very excited when an opportunity arose to join the EHRI team at King's College London earlier this year, as the project allows me to strike a perfect balance between my diverse interests.

Budapest, 27.-28. November 2012, Holocaust Memorial Centre (Holokauszt Emlékközpont, www.hdke.hu)

International workshop within the framework of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI)

The EHRI workshop, which aimed to reconstruct the activities of the Jewish post-war documentation projects and to place them into a comparative context, was a vivid illustration that the history of archival collections can be anything but boring.

Head of Documentation at the Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo (HL-senteret), Norway

Member of EHRI Work Package 18 on Keywords/Thesaurus

HL-senteret is probably the youngest institution among the EHRI affiliates. The creation of the center was a result of a year-long process involving the restitution of property and assets confiscated from the Norwegian Jews during the Second World War.

We are very pleased to announce that EHRI will be welcoming 2013 with a brand new website. Now that the project is halfway through, we thought the website needed a more informative and attractive design that was better suited to the current content.

EHRI partner King´s College London, Department of Digital Humanities, Centre for e-Research (CeRch) is seeking a Research Developer in dynamic web development including implementation of front-end interfaces.

European Holocaust researchers gather in Athens

Athens. The European Union’s EHRI project is now studying Holocaust related archives and collections in Greece. The Holocaust was definitely also a Greek tragedy. Less than twenty percent of the Jewish population of this European member state survived the Nazi reign of terror.

Behind the scenes of EHRI a team of professionals is working hard to develop what is going to be EHRI’s main achievement: an online portal that will give access to now dispersed Holocaust resources and a Virtual Research Environment that will encourage advanced and collaborative research.

On the occasion the 71st anniversary of the founding of the Terezín Ghetto, the Jewish Museum in Prague, an EHRI partner, is publishing on-line it’s Terezín collection. The documents are published on a newly created online catalogue for the Jewish Museum’s collections. The URL is: http://collections.jewishmuseum.cz/.