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Documentation Campaign Postwar Prague

New EHRI Online Edition: Postwar “Documentation Campaign” in Prague

19/12/2023

“We are leaving Theresienstadt. 5000 men are crowded together in the train. Bauschowitz sinks behind them. The dream of being able to stay together with the family is over. They are going, everyone feels, into the unknown. Squeezed in between rucksacks, suitcases and all sorts of luggage, they begin the recurring debate: where to?”

This is how Holocaust survivor Otto Kalwo described his experience with deportation from the Terezín Ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau immediately after his liberation. He submitted his testimony within the framework of the so-called “Documentation Campaign” in Prague (Dokumentační akce), one of the earliest postwar projects to document the events of the Shoah, collecting evidence, documents, and witness testimonies. Most protocols were compiled in 1945 and 1946 in either Czech or German language.

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EHRI Partner Belgium | Official report on the National Railway Company in Belgium and the Deportations

19/12/2023

On 8 December 2023, head of the Belgian Study Centre War and Contemporary Society (CegeSoma/State Archives in Belgium) Nico Wouters presented the final report on the role of the Belgian Railway society (NMBS/SNCB) in deportations carried out during  WW2 in Belgium. The research was commissioned by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Mobility Georges Gilkinet and the Belgian Senate, and carried out between August 2022 and November 2023.

The research presents a broader war history of the Belgian National Railway Company to put the deportations in its historic context, but also to compensate for the problematic lack of archival sources. The report confirmed that the deportation trains were executed by the Belgian Railway Company.

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Fellowship Call JDC Archives for 2024

06/12/2023

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Archives is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications for its 2024 fellowship program. In 2024, three to six fellowships will be awarded to senior scholars, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and independent researchers to conduct research in the JDC Archives.

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Workshop on the History and Memor of NS Camps and Killing Sites

Call for Papers and Participants | 27th Workshop on the History and Memory of National Socialist Camps and Killing Sites

05/12/2023

Proximities & Gaze

October 28 - November 3, 2024 | Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands | Organized in partnership with the Department of Political History at Utrecht University and the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Leicester | Deadline for applications: 25 January 2024

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CLARIN EHRI Workshop

Call for Applications CLARIN-EHRI Workshop | "Natural Language Processing Meets Holocaust Archives"

04/12/2023

Hands-on Workshop CLARIN & EHRI | Call for applicants

March 27-28, 2024 | Location: Prague, Czech Republic | Deadline: 15 January 2024

Language is central to the study of the Holocaust. The documentation of the genocide of Jews and Roma, building on war-time clandestine efforts, has grown since the liberation and today includes large corpora of testimonies, trial proceedings, letters and diaries, government documents, files of aid organisations and much more.

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Holocaust Literature and Ego Documents

EHRI-AT Conference | "Holocaust Literature and Ego Documents"

04/12/2023

On 11-12 December 2023, the second EHRI-AT Conference will take place at the University of Graz. Holocaust Literature and Ego Documents is a conference of the Center for Jewish Studies in cooperation with the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies as part of EHRI in Austria or EHRI-AT.

The call for this conference is closed, but it is possible to follow the event via Zoom. To take part in the conference via Zoom, please register at: office.cjs@uni-graz.at. 

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Call for Papers UU and NWO Seminar Local Dynamics

Call for Papers NWO/UU Seminar in Utrecht | "Local Dynamics and the Holocaust"

23/11/2023

June 10-11, 2024 | Location: Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2024 

First international seminar of the NWO project The Holocaust in “the Provinces”: Local Dynamics in the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands (1925-1950)

The Holocaust is one of the best researched major episodes of mass destruction in modern Western history. Whereas the scholarship initially merely focused on German policy makers and decision takers, perceiving the Holocaust as a story of Nazi perpetrators and Jewish victims, today there is general agreement that the genocide should (also) be studied in its local, communal embedding.

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EHRI Seminar Bucharest

Call for Applications EHRI Methodological Seminar | Recent Research, Resources, and Holocaust Memory in Romania

20/11/2023

February 20-22, 2024 | Location: Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania, Bucharest, Romania

Application Deadline: 8 December 2023

We are pleased to announce the EHRI Seminar on Holocaust Research in Romania, presented as part of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) project, with support from the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program. This seminar is jointly organized by the Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, both part of the EHRI Consortium.

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EHRI Podcast Series For the Living and the Dead. Traces of the Holocaust

New Episodes EHRI Podcast: For the Living and the Dead. Traces of the Holocaust

16/11/2023

In the fall of 2023, EHRI released the first episode of its second EHRI podcast season, A Sunflower for Simon. The EHRI Podcast For the Living and the Dead. Traces of the Holocaust was launched in September 2022 and highlights personal stories from the Holocaust through objects, now found in museums or (personal and private) archives across Europe and beyond. Researchers and archivists from across the EHRI network highlight the importance of documenting the Holocaust through objects and the need to protect and care for these objects.

In the second season, we hear about sunflowers sent to Simon Wiesenthal;  tefillin prayer cubes that belonged to a Polish Jewish family who survived in Siberia; a paper heart with messages of gratitude in Sweden; a letter with a desperate call for help from Jews imprisoned in the Kaufering complex; a seal made out of linoleum to forge life-saving documents in Hungary; and a tiny notebook containing notes of a 12-year old Jewish girl from Lithuania who lost almost all of her family. Listen to the latest season of For the Living and the Dead. Traces of the Holocaust.

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Odessa WW2

EHRI Document Blog | The “Tombstones Affair”: On the Fate of Jewish Cemeteries in Odessa under the Romanian Occupation (1941-1944)

16/11/2023

The latest EHRI Document Blogpost, by Svetlana Suveica, follows the story of a trial that began on 29 January 1945, after gravestones from Jewish cemeteries in Odessa had been removed and transported to Bucharest during the Romanian occupation in the Second World War.

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