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EHRI hosts international GDPR workshop in Brussels

25/04/2024

On 19th March 2024, EHRI organised an international workshop on the practical impact of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on access to Holocaust-related archival collections. The workshop was hosted by EHRI’s long-term partner CegeSoma and was attended by archival and legal professionals with expertise in the topic from across six European countries as well as representatives of the Monitoring Access to Holocaust Collections Project of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), the Ministry of the Foreign Office of the Republic of Poland and the National Archive of the Netherlands.

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Fellowships Resilience

Call for Applications RESILIENCE | Fellowships 2024-2025

16/04/2024

RESILIENCE, the European cross-disciplinary research infrastructure serving the study of religion, launches its third call for applications for Transnational Access Fellowships. The call will be open March 15 to May 1, 2024. Users will gain direct, fast, and effective access to the collections of leading research institutions and universities in Europe, guided by experts in the field.

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New EHRI Blogpost | Pinus Rubinstein’s Diary of the War and the Holocaust in Cernăuți

09/04/2024

Exploring Lived Experiences

Pinus Rubinstein, a barber who lived in the city of Cernăuți (Chernivtsi, now in Ukraine), kept his diary for most of his adult life from 1900 to 1949. In three handwritten notebooks, amounting to hundreds of pages, Rubinstein recorded a unique long-term personal experience with life in then-Romania, including the political radicalisation in the late 1930s.

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EHRI Austria

Austria Has First Official Founding National Consortium: EHRI-AT

28/03/2024

Austria Strengthens International Research into the Holocaust with a National Consortium

Since 2010, EHRI's central task has been to enable and support transnational research into the Holocaust. With the official founding of EHRI-AT in February 2024, Austrian Holocaust research has taken an important step towards the creation of a permanent European research infrastructure.

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Old Town Riga

Call for Applications EHRI Partner | International Conference on Jewish Life in the Baltic Region

26/03/2024

Jewish Life in the Baltic Region Before, During, and After the Holocaust | 2-5 September 2024 | Riga, Latvia

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia, and the Museum “Jews in Latvia” are pleased to invite applications for an international conference entitled, "Jewish Life in the Baltic Region Before, During, and After the Holocaust." The conference is scheduled for September 2-5, 2024, in Riga, Latvia.

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EHRI-IP Kick Off meeting

EHRI Implementation Phase Kick-Off in Amsterdam | Last Steps Towards a Permanent Organisation

21/03/2024

Step 1 Application to Become an ERIC Approved

On 27 February 2024, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) started its Implementation Phase (IP) project, which will lead EHRI to  become a permanent organisation for the support of Holocaust research in Europe.

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Workshop on Micro Archives in Austria

EHRI and Micro-Archives in Austria

21/03/2024

By Florine Miez, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI)

The full-day workshop "EHRI and Micro-Archives in Austria" took place at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies on 4 March 2024. The Institute presented EHRI's plans to improve support for micro-archives and invited Austrian micro-archive owners and experts to discuss the opportunities and challenges of collaboration.In the keynote speech by Franziska Schubert (Arolsen Archives), the importance of EHRI and its projects for micro-archives was explained.

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EHRI Seminar on Holocaust Memory in Romania

Review | EHRI Seminar on Research, Resources and Holocaust Memory in Romania

19/03/2024

The EHRI Seminar Recent Research, Resources and Holocaust Memory in Romania held in Bucharest, February 20-22, 2024, was organized by the Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania with the support of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Ten participants from Europe and the United States, including master's and PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, museum professionals, and educators, attended the seminar.

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Yiddish Early Holocaust Testimony

New Yiddish Documents Added to the EHRI Online Edition "Early Holocaust Testimony"

18/03/2024

Last month, EHRI has launched a new series of survivors’ testimonies recorded before 1960. The second EHRI Online Edition, the Early Holocaust Testimony, has been expanded by these unique documents written in the Yiddish language. Users can follow both versions – the nowadays rarely used and studied Yiddish original and the English translation – to explore the early memories of the Holocaust across Europe, like in this testimony of a 15-year-old Jewish boy describing the German invasion of Wyszków:

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EHRI Austria Conference

Second EHRI-AT Conference in Graz on Holocaust Literature and Ego-Documents

14/03/2024

Organised by Centrum für Jüdische Studien, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz; Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien (VWI) | 11-12 December 2023 | Graz Austria

by Florine Miez, Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien

From the beginning, writing about the Holocaust has been shaped by considerations of form, questions of different media and genres as well as the limits of language. This second EHRI-AT Conference brought together debates about ego-documents and reflections on Holocaust literature and asked about the challenges that these different texts/materials pose for archives, edition projects as well as in the field of Holocaust education.

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