EHRI Newsletter - May 2013 | European Holocaust Research Infrastructure

EHRI Newsletter - May 2013

National Reports Published on EHRI Website
	03/04/2013 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.
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EHRI Meetings in Amsterdam
	13/05/2013 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.
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CfP: Simon Wiesenthal Conference 2013
	03/04/2013 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.
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EHRI Maps the Greek Holocaust Archives
	18/02/2013 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.
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President Obama Visits Yad Vashem
	26/03/2013 Unique manuscript shown to US President 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.
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EHRI partners

KNAW – NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NL)
KNAW – DANS Data Archiving and Networked Services (NL)
Belgian State Archives/CegeSoma (BE)
Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ)
Yad Vashem (IL)
Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (DE)
King's College London (UK)
Holocaust Documentation Center (SK)
Kazerne Dossin (BE)
The Wiener Holocaust Library (UK)
’Elie Wiesel’ National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania (RO)
Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (AT)

Shoah Memorial (FR)
Jewish Historical Institute (PL)
US Holocaust Memorial Museum (US)
National Research Council (IT)
Arolsen Archives (DE)
Federal Archives (DE)
Inria – team ALMAnaCH (FR)
Polish Center for Holocaust Research (PL)
Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center Foundation (IT)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR)
Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History (LT)
Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives (HU)
Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (UA)
Jewish Museum in Prague (CZ)
Jewish Museum of Greece (GR)

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