On 12 and 13 October 2015, a delegation from EHRI participated in a Europeana Research Workshop, entitled: “Using European Infrastructures for Humanities research: Scoping Content, Tools and Users”. Hosted by ATHENA Digital Curation Unit (DCU), the workshop brought together several key stakeholders of Europeana (Research Infrastructures, projects, e-content experts and digital humanists) for a workshop with the aim to create a discourse and a brainstorming revolving around the use of digital content in the Europeana portal for research. Next to EHRI, other projects were presented included DARIAH Teach, the Pelagios project, and IPERION CH and Parthenos.

The Holocaust and the Struggle for Civil Rights

International Workshop

Centre for German-Jewish Studies and the Sussex Centre for American Studies  

University of Sussex, 14–15 April 2016

Until not long ago, the story of the African American civil rights movement has been told largely within the context of American history. Only since the collapse of communism has scholarship started to acknowledge how U.S. foreign policy concerns and the competition with the Soviet Union forced policy makers in Washington to support the civil rights agenda elsewhere.

Conference: 34th Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide

To be held at Millersville University, Millersville, PA, from April 6-8, 2016

General topic of the panel: Teaching Methods of the Holocaust and Genocide.

Due date: November 2, 2015, at 12 noon

Millersville University is seeking one participant (to offer a paper) and a chair to join us on a panel dealing with the pedagogy of teaching about the Holocaust and Genocide.

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is pleased to present its Fellowship program. Two or three fellowships will be awarded each year to deserving scholars engaged in graduate level, post-doctoral, or independent study to conduct research in the JDC Archives, either in New York or Jerusalem.

January 4-8, 2016, Washington, DC

Applications due October 11, 2015

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum invites applications for the seminar “A Research Introduction to the Holocaust in the Soviet Union.” This seminar will be held January 4–8, 2016, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.

The 21st Annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization

The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois, June 19 to July 1, 2016

Call for Fellows

The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University invites applications for fellowships to participate in the 21st annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, from June 19 to July 1, 2016, at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Exhibit Revealing Little-Known Model for Genocide Debuts in Eastern Europe October 1 to November 22, 2015

New EHRI partner, the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum, in Vilnius, Lithuania, debuts the exhibit, "Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum - 10 Years of Investigations," from October 1 to November 22, 2015. Based on ten years of investigation by the international nonprofit organization, Yahad-In Unum and its founder, Father Patrick Desbois, the exhibit chronicles the lesser-known side of the Holocaust.

There is a great deal of interest worldwide in the documents of the archives of the International Tracing Service (ITS) about former victims of Nazi persecution and the liberated survivors. A small part of this collection, which since 2013 is inscribed onto the UNESCO “Memory of the World” register, can now be viewed in a new online archive. EHRI partner, the ITS has uploaded three collections in an initial step, including photos of personal objects that were taken from the prisoners in the concentration camps.

POLIN Research Fellowships for Doctoral and Postdoctoral Candidates

POLIN Museum’s Global Educational Outreach Program, supported by the William K. Bowes Jr Foundation and the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture, is offering up to six doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships for three to five consecutive months in residence at POLIN Museum and the Jewish Historical Institute (ŻIH).

A first Workshop on Digital Humanities in Czech Republic took place on 24 September 2015 in Prague. Organized by the LINDAT/CLARIN Center, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague and under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic. The event was coordinated in cooperation with the Jewish Museum in Prague and the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. With 65 officially registered guests, the workshop was very well attended by various stakeholders in the field. The workshop was opened by professor Eva Hajičová and an opening speech was held by Lukáš Levák, Director Department of Research and Development, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.