After the EHRI General Partner Meeting on 13 November in Brussels, our hosting partner, CegeSoma took the opportunity to have a short video-interview with EHRI Co-Director Reto Speck. CegeSoma's Dirk Luyten asked Reto some questions about EHRI's development into a permanent research infrastructure for Holocaust research and why this is important. You can watch Reto's answers in this 5 minute interview.

Emma Abbate has a PhD from the Università Federico II di Napoli and is a CLIL teachers trainer at the Università L'Orientale di Napoli and a teacher at Liceo Scientifico Armando Diaz Caserta.

She participated in the EHRI workshop Challenges in Presenting Holocaust Resources in the Digital Age, that took place at Yad Vashem in November 2022, and has written a blogpost about her contribution that gives insight in modern Holocaust education.

In Holocaust education, the need for a student-centered approach and the increasingly active role of the learners acting more as co-creators of contents than simple interlocutors, call for a creative but ethically respectful remediation of primary sources employed in classrooms. This post describes some digital learning experiences aimed at renewing students’ agency in Shoah remembrance, it is the summary of my contribution to the EHRI workshop "Challenging in presenting Holocaust resources in the Digital Age" in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, in November 2022.

To commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, you could listen to one of the six episodes of the EHRI podcast series For the Living and the Dead. Traces of the Holocaust. They all tell a very personal story of a Holocaust victim, while a researcher gives a wider perspective.

In each episode of For the Living and the Dead, a Holocaust researcher talks about an object, now often in a museum or archive, that tells a personal story about the Holocaust. The first season of the EHRI podcast features a teddy bear, mica-flakes, a postcard, gramophone discs, a magazine cover and a typewriter. The unique stories come from all over Europe – the Holocaust being a continent-wide phenomenon – ranging from Belgium to Ukraine, from Romania to Italy.

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) today released a Netherlands Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Survey, including a breakdown of Millennial and Gen Z respondents, exposing a disturbing lack of awareness of key historical facts about the Holocaust and the Netherlands’ own connection to Holocaust history.

Join the #ProtectTheFacts campaign on social media and raise awareness of how to recognize and counter Holocaust distortion.

For International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2023, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) launches a new #ProtectTheFacts campaign on social media to raise awareness of how to recognize and counter Holocaust distortion. ProtectTheFacts is an international initiative of the European Commission, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the United Nations and UNESCO. Help to spread the word on social media and download the toolkit. Read more and toolkit

In 2005, the United Nations established an international day of commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. The UN designated 27 January (the liberation of Auschwitz) as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure has 27 partner institutions that commemorate this day with specific events and activities, appropriate for the country they are located in.

To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2023, we’ve gathered some of these events to give an impression of how to commemorate this day.

August 7-11, 2023 | Location: Jewish Museum in Prague, Czech Republic

We invite applications from educators of different professional (e.g. secondary school teachers, lecturers involved in teacher training, educators at memorials and other commemorative initiatives) and national backgrounds to attend the first EHRI pedagogical Seminar. The event will offer an opportunity for educators to expand their skills when teaching about the Holocaust in different settings and familiarize them with EHRI’s digital services.

Insights from the Practice of European Holocaust Education and Exhibitions

Online | February 7^th, 3-5 pm (CET) | Registration deadline: 05.02.2023

How can the Holocaust be exhibited and educated alongside other historical and contemporary human rights and discrimination topics? What are the similarities in the challenges and approaches in different European contexts, and how do they differ? These questionss will be discussed at this online event on February 7^th, 3-5 pm (CET).

The Alfred Landecker Foundation is pleased to invite applications from highly qualified postdocs in the humanities and social sciences, for a full-time lecturer program set to begin on October 1, 2023. Up to five university lectureships will each run for five years. The Alfred Landecker Foundation’s Academic Council is leading the selection process.

Last November, EHRI published its first training resource to the DARIAH Campus website. This short guide, “How To Capture and Reference a Webpage in Your Research Using Zotero”, will show you how to use Zotero to capture webpages that can then be cited in your work. The need to reference webpages in academic work is growing all the time, particularly in the digital humanities. There are many different reference management systems that exist to help researchers sort and find their sources, and the most accessible of these is Zotero.