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EHRI Partner Call | 2024 Fellowships at the Center for Holocaust Studies Munich

27/09/2023

The Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (partner in EHRI) will be offering grants for research stays at the Center in Munich during 2024.

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Bundesarchiv Hosts EHRI Archival Seminar "Modern Diplomatics of the Holocaust"

25/09/2023

Reading Documents Beyond, Between and Within the Lines

By Dora Komnenovic, Bundesarchiv

From September 10-15, 2023, the German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv) hosted the five-day EHRI archival seminar "Modern Diplomatics of the Holocaust" at its branch in Berlin-Lichterfelde. Following a competitive call for applications, twelve participants from Europe, Israel and the United States were invited to participate in the event, which was organised for the second time since 2016. 

Over the five days of the programme, the attendees were introduced to the German administrative tradition and critical document analysis, i.e. diplomatics as an auxiliary science of history. What might seem as a rather "dry" topic at first glance has nevertheless managed to impress, as one of the participants remarked:

 "It's been a while since I had a week such as this one at the EHRI archival seminar. It opened a whole new world to me!"

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New Blogpost | Wartime Paperwork: How Citizens Navigated Soviet Bureaucracy During and After WWII

11/09/2023

The new EHRI Document Blogpost “Wartime Paperwork: How Citizens Navigated Soviet Bureaucracy During and After World War II”, written by Tobias Wals, shows how Jewish Soviet citizens used flaws and loopholes in postwar bureaucracy to negotiate their position in society and even managed to sometimes change their identities.

Engaging Educators Seminar in Prague

EHRI Seminar in Prague 'Engaging Educators': “Researchers Engaging Educators Vice Versa"

23/08/2023

From August 7th to 11th, the Jewish Museum in Prague in partnership with the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, organized the first international EHRI Seminar tailored to educators teaching the Holocaust in educational institutions like schools, museums, and memorial sites.

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Gathering the Voices Presents ‘Marion’s Journey’ an Educational Computer Game

10/08/2023

The Gathering the Voices Association launches the serious and educational computer game Marion’s Journey on Wednesday 30th August, 4:00 PM CET on Zoom. The educational online experience follows the flight of Marion Camrass during the Second World War from occupied Poland, through Siberia, then Bukhara and finally to Glasgow, where she settled, married and raised her family.

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Step 1 Application to Establish EHRI as an ERIC Submitted to the EU

13/07/2023

On 13 July 2023, the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science submitted to the European Union the step 1 application for EHRI, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, to establish itself as an European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC).

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New Blogpost | Chance Encounters in a Holocaust Archive: Finding Elżbieta Nadel’s “The Black Album”

06/07/2023

This new Document Blogpost, by Rachel Perry, presents Elżbieta Nadel’s recently discovered early post-war graphic work The Black Album. It describes the research information on the provenance, technique, and composition of the work.

In addition, a comparison of the album and its drawings with an earlier album, Images from Home (made in Lviv, 1942), by the same artist allows for an analysis of the Black Album’s tone, style, content, voice, and point of view. The post follows the album’s bending to the pressures of its time and its function after the war.

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Engaging the Educators: EHRI is Branching Out!

06/07/2023

As EHRI prepares to become a permanent research infrastructure, it is increasing its outreach towards user groups that have so far had less engagement with EHRI, but where the EHRI consortium sees potential value. As such, EHRI has organised two initiatives in 2023 to work more closely with Holocaust Educators.

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EHRI in the UK | Three Workshops – Many New Opportunities

06/07/2023

By Rachel Pistol, EHRI-UK National Coordinator, KCL, and Maria Dermentzi, KCL

On May 4-5, 2023, EHRI organised two workshops that were hosted by the Wiener Holocaust Library (WHL) in London, UK. The first day focused on the work of the Work Package (EHRI-3 WP11) that is tasked with engaging and supporting micro-archives, while the second day was a special EHRI-UK workshop, run through EHRI-PP (Preparatory Phase).

A third workshop took place on 15-17 May, when EHRI-UK teamed up with CLARIN - the research infrastructure for language as social and cultural data - for a combined EHRI-CLARIN workshop "Using Holocaust Testimonies as Research Data".

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"If this Portal could talk..."| EHRI's Veerle and Herminio Talk About Data Identification and Integration

03/07/2023

The EHRI Portal offers access to information on Holocaust-related archival material held in institutions across Europe and beyond. It is one of the main achievements of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure. The EHRI Portal, an ever growing resource, now enables you to browse 418,164 archival descriptions in 807 institutions. It also has information on 2,234 archival institutions in 60 countries. 63 national reports provide an overview of the Second World War and Holocaust history as well as of the archival situation in the covered countries. It makes it hard to believe that this all started in 2010 with an Excel spreadsheet. Veerle Vanden Daelen and Herminio García-González are leading on data identification and integration into the EHRI Portal. Time to ask them how this works.

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