EHRI Newsletter - November 2013 | European Holocaust Research Infrastructure

EHRI Newsletter - November 2013

Truth and Lies. Filming in the Terezín Ghetto 1942-1945
	05/11/2013 Exhibition Jewish Museum Prague Film was used by the Third Reich as a powerful tool for controlling public opinion. Two propaganda films were made about the Terezín ghetto during the war. On the basis of the latest findings, EHRI partner the Jewish Museum in Prague and the Czech National Film Archive created an exhibition. It charts the history behind both films, focuses on the people who initiated them and describes the conditions for the filming. Many prisoners were forced to take part as actors, extras and film crew members.
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Recent Work Towards the EHRI Portal
	05/11/2013 Petra Links is an archivist who works at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam and is very involved in EHRI. Here Petra gives an overview of recently completed work that paves the way for the creation of the portal: the identification of user requirements, the research on metadata standards and the implementation and development of a thesaurus in combination with authority files.
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EHRI Fellow Katja Happe researched the persecution of Dutch Jews
	19/11/2013 Since May 2012, Katja Happe has been a research associate at the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Freiburg, Germany, for the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) project "The history of the persecution of Jews in the Netherlands 1940-1945". She was an EHRI fellow for four weeks in September 2013 at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies. During her fellowship she did research for her project that will result in a book. She has specialized in Dutch-German history and had visited the NIOD before.
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People in EHRI: Kepa Joseba Rodriguez
	19/11/2013 Kepa works for the Research and Development Department of the Göttingen State and University Library, Germany. In the lab, he is active for the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure and works on the creation of the online portal and research environment. I graduated with a Doctorate at the Centre for Mind and Brain Sciences (CiMEC) at the University of Trento (Italy) with a focus in Computational Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics.
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Follow EHRI on Twitter @EHRIproject
	21/11/2013 Please follow us on Twitter @EHRIproject and stay updated as the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure project enters its final year and we start to countdown towards the launch of the online portal and research environment, that will provide you access to dispersed Holocaust related sources.
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The Wiener Library at 80: The Endurance of Truth
	19/11/2013 On the 7th November, EHRI partner The Wiener Library: For the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide celebrated the eighty years since it began its work as a record and archive of Nazism and anti-Semitism.
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Exhibition Mémorial de la Shoah: Scenes from the Ghetto
	14/11/2013 November 13, 2013 - September 28, 2014 Between 15,000 and 20,000 photographs were taken in the ghettos during World War II. What is the meaning of these pictures? Propaganda? Testimony? Resistance? Denunciation for History? The answers may be found in the context of the photos as well as in the personality of the photographers.
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CfP: The International Tracing Service (ITS) Collections and Holocaust Scholarship
	16/10/2013 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington The Centre for Advanced Holocaust Studies and EHRI partner the International Tracing Service invite applications for an international conference designed to illustrate the broad academic research potential of the ITS collections.
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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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