EHRI is proud to be co-organiser of the International Conference Public History of the Holocaust. Historical Research in the Digital Age. The other organisers are DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) and TextGrid. The event is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The conference takes place on July 9 in the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Please note that you can only register after you have received a personal invitation.
The digital age presents challenges as well as opportunities for historians and historical collection holders.
EHRI engages with related projects and organisations
In April EHRI held its third General Partner Meeting in Amsterdam, hosted by NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Once a year all twenty partners get together to discuss the progress of the project and the next steps to take. EHRI is more than halfway into its term and has so far fulfilled all expectations.
Collaboration in Eastern Europe during World War II and the Holocaust. December 5-7, 2013, Vienna, Austria
EHRI partner The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) and the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies invite applications for an interdisciplinary
conference on complicity and collaboration in World War II and the Holocaust in the
Eastern part of Europe.
A new tool for researchers is now available on the website of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure: EHRI’s national reports. The national reports are first and foremost a tool in the identification and investigation work of EHRI. Because the field of Holocaust studies relies on a huge variety of archives, one of EHRI’s most important tasks is to create an inventory of Holocaust-related archival institutions and collections in order to share information about them and help provide access to the research community. The 47 reports provide EHRI’s identification work with a structured framework.
On Friday 22 March, US President Barack Obama visited EHRI partner Yad Vashem. He visited the Hall of Names, the Museum of Holocaust Art, participated in a memorial ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance, and visited the Children’s Memorial, before signing the Yad Vashem Guest Book.
The Claims Conference seeks professional articles for the fourth issue of Kavod. They invite submissions from a variety of authors representing academic research, case studies, related agency initiatives and development, clinical practice and book reviews.
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA, formerly known as the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research) seeks to fill the position of a project coordinator for its Multi-Year Work Plan on Archival Access.
The International Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (ITF) will change its name into International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). This was decided during the ITF meeting on December 10-13 in Liège (Belgium).
International Academic Conference on Holocaust Research
University of Toronto; October 6-7, 2013
Organized by the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair of Holocaust Studies and the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto, and the Government of Canada, this international academic conference will showcase and consider new Holocaust-related research by new scholars in the field.
On 4 December 2012, an EHRI workshop on Greek Holocaust-related archives took place in Athens. Presided by Dr. Veerle Vanden Daelen (Ceges-Soma, 'Identification & Investigation' Work Package leader in EHRI) and co-organized by Dr. Agiatis Benardou (Athena RC/IMIS, EHRI user requirements), an EHRI delegation met with a representative sample of the Greek Holocaust research community, including members of major universities, museums and archival institutions.
