EHRI Partners | 27 Organisations in 18 Countries Worldwide
Currently, EHRI projects have 27 partners, representing archives, libraries, museums and research institutions. The project also relies on a large network of cooperating partners and many other individuals and organisations in the broad fields of Holocaust studies and digital humanities. Here you can find an overview of the EHRI partners, first phase (2010-2015), EHRI partners, second phase (2015-2019) and EHRI partners, Preparatory Phase. These are our current partners (EHRI-3 and EHRI-Implementation Phase), located in 18 different countries:
EHRI-3 and EHRI-IP
KNAW-NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NL)
NIOD is a knowledge and information centre on war and large-scale violence in the 20th and 21st century. NIOD’s area of work focuses on research into the effects of wars, the Holocaust and other genocides on individuals and society.
NIOD is coordinator of EHRI and leads on management, communication, dissemination and exploitation, and impact, innovation and sustainability. KNAW-NIOD and KNAW-DANS are one partner in EHRI.
Belgian State Archives/CegeSoma (BE)
The Belgian State Archives, a scientific institution of the Belgian federal state, obtain and preserve archive documents that are at least 30 years old from courts, tribunals, public authorities, notaries and from the private sector and private individuals that have played an important role in society. These archives are made accessible for research by means of inventories, research guides and digital tools.
The Belgian State Archives keep the key archival collections for the study of the Holocaust and its aftermath in Belgium, as the complete archive of the Military Justice, which was in charge of punishment of collaboration after 1944. The War Victims archives section keep important collections on camps where people from Belgium were interned and personal files of the post-war schemes to compensate the resistance fighters and war victims, including the Jews.
Within the State Archives, operational directorate 4, the Study Centre War and Society (CegeSoma), will perform the tasks in this project. CegeSoma, is a specialized research and documentation centre on the Second World War created in 1967 and integrated in the Belgian State Archives in 2016. Next to collecting archives from private individuals and private organisation and making them accessible, this Centre has a built over 50 years a specialized library and has moreover conducted research on different aspects of the Second World War, including the Holocaust. CegeSoma is integrated in national and international research networks and is involved as coordinator and partner in national and international research projects on both World Wars and post-war memories.
Since the second half of the 1990’s, CegeSoma is developing tools for digital access to its collections and digitized parts of the collections, starting with photos. By means of specific projects financed by the Belgian federal science policy office, CegeSoma is involved in digital humanities research. CegeSoma was a partner in EHRI 1 and EHRI 2.
In EHRI IP CegeSoma leads the operalization of the Central Hub.
Square de l’aviation 29 1070 Bruxelles Phone : 02 556 92 11 email : cegesoma@arch.be
Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ)
Founded by the first Czechoslovak president Thomas G. Masaryk in 1932 and joined with the Archives of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences later, the institute is a leading Czech research organisation with focus on the history of the 19th and 20th centuries.
It combines primary historical research with archival experience. In line with Masaryk’s legacy, it aims to ask new questions on difficult and complex topics in Czech and European modern history, including war, mass violence and genocide, migration and refugees, as well as nationalism and various forms of racism.
The Masaryk Institute leads the work on strengthening the national nodes and thematic layers across collections.
Read more about the Masaryk Institute
Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center (IL)
Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, was established by the Israeli Parliament in 1953. Located on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem, Yad Vashem is dedicated to Holocaust remembrance, documentation, research and education. Through the International School for Holocaust Studies, the Museum Complex, the International Institute for Holocaust Research and Publications Department, the Archives with over 210 million pages of documentation, the Hall of Names, the Library, and its monuments and memorials, Yad Vashem seeks to meaningfully impart the legacy of the Shoah for generations to come. Every year, some 1,000,000 people visit Yad Vashem’s 45-acre campus, and millions more explore various aspects of the Holocaust through Yad Vashem’s activities around the world and online. Drawing on the memories of the past, Yad Vashem aims to strengthen commitment to Jewish continuity and protect basic human values.
Yad Vashem is involved in the EHRI leadership and leads work on internationalization and partnerships, and localization and capacity building.
Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (DE)
The Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) studies 20th and 21st century German history in its European and international contexts. The Center for Holocaust Studies at the IfZ not only engages in Holocaust research, but also offers fellowships and training.
The Center for Holocaust Studies leads the work on training and education and science, user and technological strategies.
www.ifz-muenchen.de and www.holocaust-studien.de
Dokumentačné Stredisko Holokaustu (DSH) (SK)
Dokumentačné stredisko holokaustu (Holocaust Documentation Centre) in Bratislava was established as an independent institution in November 2005. The goal of the Center is to collect archival and other documents connected to the Slovak Jewish community and the Holocaust as well as to conduct research on these topics. In addition, it educates students and teachers about the Holocaust and phenomena associated with this era, such as anti-Semitism, xenophobia, intolerance and racism.
Kazerne Dossin: Memorial, Museum and Research Centre on Holocaust and Human Rights, Mechelen (BE)
Kazerne Dossin is a place with great historical importance: from July 1942 up to the liberation in September 1944, the barracks (“kazerne”) functioned as a SS-Sammellager from which 25,800 Jews, Roma and Sinti were deported, mainly to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
After the end of the Second World War, the building again served its original purpose as a school for the administration of the armed forces. However, in 1975, this military institute moved, after which the Dossin barracks fell into disuse. This is why the complex was divided into apartments in the 1980s. Part of the building was also used as of 1995 for the former Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance. This museum was founded by a number of Jewish survivors, including the late Natan Ramet, and was inaugurated by King Albert II on 7th May of that year. The museum was a success from the outset, its permanent exhibition attracting 35,000 visitors a year. But as visitor numbers grew, it needed to expand. In 2001 the Flemish Government supported the plans for a new Holocaust and Human Rights Museum and put in place the financing to renovate and develop the museum site.
The new museum complex opened at the end of November 2012 and focuses on the Holocaust (Belgian case) and transposes the themes of mass violence and human rights to current day affairs. Kazerne Dossin’s Research Centre’s main objective is to preserve and digitize original documents and other records relating to the Holocaust.
Kazerne Dossin is leading on data identification and integration.
The Wiener Holocaust Library (UK)
The Wiener Holocaust Library is one of the world’s leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust and Nazi era. Formed in 1933, the Library’s unique collection of over one million items includes published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs and eyewitness testimony. The Library provides a resource to oppose anti-Semitism and other forms of prejudice and intolerance.
The library exists to serve scholars, professional researchers, the media and the public as a library of record and is a living memorial to the evils of the past, ensuring that its wealth of materials is put at the service of the future. The Wiener Holocaust Library aims to engage people of all ages and backgrounds in understanding the Holocaust and its historical context through an active educational programme and by communicating the accessibility, power and contemporary relevance of its collections as a national resource for those wishing to prevent possible future genocides.
Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania (RO)
The Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania is a research institute located in Bucharest. It has several departments: research and editing, education and communication, library and archive, administration and accounting.
The Wiesel Institute conducts research projects and coordinates education and communication activities. It has the most important and complete archive containing official documents on the Holocaust in Romania, as well as a specialized library containing academic literature on the subject. In our archive, researchers can find over 1 mil. documents that come from the main archival sources regarding the Holocaust in Romania like: the National Archives of Romania, the Government Archives, the Ministries Archives, the Secret Services Archives, and the Romanian Jewish Federations Archives. Researchers, both Romanian and international, are given on-site access to the library and archive; over 400 students, BA, MA, and PhD, as well as national and international researchers accessed the Library and Archive since its creation.
The Wiesel Institute develops activities in the field of education (e.g. offering training in the area of fighting anti-Semitism, xenophobia and racism, and teaching about Holocaust to high school teachers), and in the field of communication (e.g. conferences, seminars, public debates, public reactions).
The Wiesel Institute is represented in EHRI by the Department of Research. The Research Department conducts projects in a broad area of subjects related to the Holocaust in Romania, with national and international funding, and in cooperation with different institutions and organizations from Romania and abroad.
www.inshr-ew.ro I Facebook page
Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien (VWI) (AT)
The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) is a research centre dedicated to the research and documentation of and education on all aspects of antisemitism, racism, and the Holocaust, including its emergence and aftermath. It was designed by Simon Wiesenthal as well as international and Austrian researchers. The institute is located in Vienna, Austria.
VWI’s research activity focuses on own academic projects as well as on an extensive fellowship programme, which engages in intensive and on-going exchange with researchers in other institutions, thus ensuring constant scholarly innovation and consideration of new questions and innovative methods. VWI’s activity in the field of documentation centres on its own collections, namely the Holocaust-related parts of the archive of the Viennese Jewish Community, which are on loan to the institute, and the estate of Simon Wiesenthal with its extensive holdings on Nazi perpetrators, as well as the VWI library. Education is VWI’s third pillar of activity. Its intention is on the one hand to transfer the results of the research of the institute to a scholarly or an interested public by the means of conferences, workshops, lectures and other events, and on the other hand to ensure constant awareness for crimes against humanity, especially in the context of the Holocaust by interventions in the public sphere. VWI also publishes two book series and the e-journal S:I.M.O.N. – Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation.
All activities build on the recommendations, suggestions, and initiatives made by an International Academic Advisory Board both in content and concept and in the selection of the fellows.
VWI is leading acquisition of new members and funding.
Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute (PL) / Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma (ŻIH) (PL)
The mission of the Jewish Historical Institute is to spread knowledge about the heritage of the thousand years of Jewish presence on the Polish lands. The institution realizes its aim among others through presenting its collections as temporary and permanent expositions, organizing various kinds of artistic events, academic conferences and public education meetings, as well as educational and publishing activity.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (US)
A living memorial to the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum inspires citizens and leaders worldwide to confront hatred, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity through exhibitions, education, and scholarship. The Museum works closely with many key segments of society who will affect the future of our nation: professionals from the fields of law enforcement, the judiciary, and the military, as well as youth. The Museum also strives to build and preserve for posterity the fully accessible collection of record on the Holocaust.
The Museum has made significant contributions to the EHRI Online Portal, and is leading on new approaches to Holocaust research and archiving.
www.ushmm.org/information/about-the-museum
Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (UA)
The Center for Urban History is an independent institution that focuses its work on urban history research, digital history projects, and public history activities. Our aims are to enhance international cooperation in research, to explore the possibilities of digital technologies in the humanities, and to rethink the roles of history in modern societies. The Center’s work has several objectives: to research the history of Eastern and Central European cities; to promote urban history in an interdisciplinary format; to foster international academic and cultural exchange; to deepen knowledge and understanding of the complexity and diversity of history and heritage in Eastern and Central European cities; and to enhance cooperation among local and international institutions.
Only in EHRI-3
Arolsen Archives Bad Arolsen (DE)
The Arolsen Archives are an international center on Nazi persecution with the world’s most comprehensive archive on the victims and survivors of National Socialism. The collection has information on about 17.5 million people and belongs to the UNESCO’s Memory of the World. It contains documents on the various victim groups targeted by the Nazi regime and is an important source of knowledge for society today.
Arolsen Archives is leading on connecting micro archival communities and standards.
Bundesarchiv (DE)
The Bundesarchiv (Federal Archives) is responsible for permanently preserving the civilian and military records of the central government institutions in Germany since 1495 with a clear focus on documents of the 20th century and making them available for use. The Federal Archives have the largest archival pool of sources concerning the history of the period of National Socialism; key papers for the understanding of the Holocaust lie within its repositories, e.g. the Reich’s Security Main Office, the Personal staff of the Reichsführer-SS as well as various ministries or the NSDAP membership card index.
www.bundesarchiv.de (English version: www.bundesarchiv.de/index.html.en)
Inria – team ALMAnaCH (FR)
Inria – team ALMAnaCH, the French National Institute for computer science and applied mathematics, promotes “scientific excellence for technology transfer and society”.
Inria works in the EHRI consortium to ensure that collection vocabulary can be merged and shared by proposing encoding standards. Inria also uses its natural language processing tools to enrich collection annotations, making items easier to find.
Polish Center for Holocaust Research Association (PL)
The Polish Center for Holocaust Research was established on 2 July 2003, as a section of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. It is the first and so far the only research institution in Poland dealing exclusively with Holocaust studies. Dedicated to the study and analysis of this tragic history, the Center’s research projects make use of unique and previously untapped archives to illuminate the lives of those who died. Until now, many of these precious documents had never been catalogued or translated. The Polish Center for Holocaust Research:
- Conducts research using a wealth of resources and collections unique to Polish archives.
- Coordinates interdisciplinary research projects.
- Offers and presents informational seminars led by top researchers.
- Publishes monographs, edited volumes, and unabridged source material.
- Supports scholarship programs and research workshops for students in order to create and inspire a new generation of Holocaust scholars and academics.
http://www.holocaustresearch.pl/?l=a&lang=en
Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea CDEC / Foundation Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center CDEC (IT)
The Foundation Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center CDEC in Milan, is a no-profit research institution; it was founded in 1955 with the mission to preserve the memory and make known the history of the Jews victims of the Shoah in Italy. Today the CDEC Foundation is the main Italian research institute for the history of the persecution and deportation of Jews from Italy and former colonies (Libya and the Aegean Islands) and it is included in the list of the major Italian cultural institutions supported by the Italian Ministry of the Cultural Heritage.
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR)
The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki constitutes a comprehensive institution with Faculties and Schools serving a vast array of scientific fields, ranging from natural and technological to social and health sciences, arts and humanities. The Aristotle University has been inextricably linked to the Jewish community of Thessaloniki since its founding in 1925. The Jewish Studies Chair was established as early as 1929 in order to facilitate the admission of members of the Jewish community. However, the Chair was short-lived since it was cancelled in 1936 and was only re-established in 2015. The Chair offers various courses on Greek Jews and their history, the history of the Holocaust, the oral history of the Holocaust and hands on seminars on the local and oral history of the deportations.
Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History (LT)
The Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History was established in 1989. Today it boasts three branches: the Tolerance Center & Samuel Bak Museum, the Holocaust Exhibition and the Paneriai Memorial.
The Tolerance Center & Samuel Bak museum is situated in the building of the former Jewish theatre. It is the biggest branch of the museum hosting expositions on Lithuanian Jewish art, culture and history, including cultural and educational events, conferences, film screenings and discussions. Here you will see authentic artefacts from the Great Synagogue of Vilna dating back to the 18th century, even though the synagogue itself did not survive; you can also visit the museum exhibitions Jewish Life in Lithuania and Rescued Lithuanian Jewish Child Tells About the Shoah, as well as other temporary exhibitions. In November 2017, the Samuel Bak Museum which is devoted to the famous Litvak artist and Honorary Citizen of Vilnius, Samuel Bak, was opened in the Tolerance Center complex. The new museum presents several dozen paintings by Samuel Bak, starting with his early drawings created at the Vilna Ghetto, and continuing with his mature works painted much later in an authentic style of allegoric realism.
Three more branches of the Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History will be opened for visitors: Museum of Culture and Identity of Lithuanian Jews, Memorial Museum of Holocaust in Lithuania and Vilna Ghetto and Jacques Lipchitz Memorial Museum.
Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives (HU)
The Hungarian Jewish Archives (HJA) is a public archive, and belongs to the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities. Its main aim is to collect and preserve documentary evidences, and make them available to the public.
The Archive was founded after the Holocaust, while collecting the abandoned Jewish community materials, and all documentation concerning the history of the Jews in Hungary. The HJA collects all documentary evidences which were created by Jewish Organizations (Communities, Central Boards, Associations, Jewish Schools, Hospitals, Elderly Homes etc.). It collects the written and visual evidences of Jewish personalities if they were employees of the Community (Rabbis, Chazans, Bookkeepers, Librarians etc.). The HJA also collects all materials concerning anti-Semitism, anti-Jewish Laws and the Holocaust, but does not collect contemporary anti-Semitic literature.
Jewish Museum in Prague (CZ)
The Jewish Museum in Prague is dedicated to research and education about the history and culture of Jews in Bohemian Lands. It is one of the most visited museums in the Czech Republic and offers a range of cultural and educational programmes to the public and schools. It provides access to its collections and to the best specialised library in the country, publishes the scholarly journal Judaica Bohemiae, organises workshops and conferences. The collections of Jewish Museum in Prague include archival holdings focused specifically on materials on the persecution of Jews in Czech Lands and on Terezín, as well as materials of the Jewish communities in this territory.
The Jewish Museum of Greece (GR)
The Jewish Museum of Greece was founded with the aim of collecting, studying, preserving, and exhibiting the material evidence of 2,300 years of Jewish life in Greece. It is a historical and ethnographical museum and its collection includes more than 10,000 rare artefacts of great historical significance. The JMG contributes to specialized studies of the life and traditions of the Romaniote and Sephardic Jews of Greece. The Greek-Jewish heritage is an important part of the international Jewish heritage, as many important Rabbis, researchers and mystics lived and worked in Greece. Education is one of the Museum’s priorities. Special emphasis is put on educating children about the Holocaust. The Museum holds that by bringing the young generation into contact with another culture, one whose traditions flourished side by side with their own, it encourages them to embrace differences and it assists in their developing broader horizons and intercultural awareness and sensitivity. The JMG was conceived and created as a teaching museum. It is the only institution in Greece that offers Holocaust education and one of very few that conduct intercultural educational programs.
KNAW-Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (NL)
DANS promotes sustained access to digital research data. For this, DANS encourages scientific researchers to archive and reuse data in a sustained form, for instance via the online archiving system EASY and DataverseNL. With NARCIS, DANS also provides access to thousands of scientific datasets, publications and other research information in the Netherlands. The institute furthermore provides training and consultancy and carries out research on sustained access to digital information. Driven by data, DANS ensures the further improvement of access to digital research data with its services and participation in (inter)national projects and networks. DANS is an institute of KNAW and NWO.
For EHRI, DANS manages metadata standards and the integration of metadata from the collections of the different institutions. KNAW-NIOD and KNAW-DANS are one partner in EHRI.
Mémorial de la Shoah / Shoah Memorial (FR)
The Shoah Memorial is a documentation centre (the first and foremost collection of archives on the Shoah in Europe) and museum offering a variety of activities developing a fuller understanding of the history of the Jews during the Second World War. For ten years now, the Shoah Memorial has also been focusing on the history of two other 20th-century genocides, those of the Armenians and the Tutsi in Rwanda.
For EHRI, the Shoah Memorial will work as coordinator of relevant Holocaust institutions and archives in France, Spain, Switzerland and Luxembourg, by identifying their needs in regard to the handling of Holocaust-related collections, cataloguing, conservation, integration with the EHRI infrastructure. They will organise one conference in Paris on this subject. The institute will organise a methodological seminar on Holocaust research in close cooperation with a partner of an Eastern European country, whose target audience will include researchers and young scholars. The Shoah Memorial will also offer 30 weeks of fellowship to 12 applicants coming from all over the world (historians, Holocaust researchers, archivists and museum curators). The institute will facilitate the French speaking users of the EHRI virtual online infrastructure by supporting research users in case the automated helpdesk could not provide them satisfactory results.
King’s College London (UK)
King’s College London is a research university located in London and a constituent college of the University of London. KCL is represented in EHRI by the Department of Digital Humanities (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/index.aspx). The Department is an international leader in the application of technology in research in the arts and humanities, and in the social sciences. It works at the intersection between research methods and practice, digital informatics and research infrastructure development. Key research areas are the theory and practice of digital libraries, digital archives and digital asset management; knowledge organisation and digital information management, through all stages of the digital lifecycle; researcher practices in the digital domain, including citizen and community engagement; ICT methods for digital scholarship and research, and the formalisation of research methods through the use of ICT; and e-research infrastructures and environments.
KCL is leading the work on dissemination and virtual access.
Only in EHRI-IP
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies
The mission of the Faculty is multilayered: to cultivate and improve philosophy and religious studies programs; to deeper understanding of man and his life; to promote philosophical and religious reflection; to develop a dialogue with the modern world and society. We strive to achieve our goals with excellence through teaching, research, and publishing activities. Based on rich and valuable philosophical heritage we face new challenges. Therefore, philosophical and religious studies in particular are taught in a systematic manner, for the acquisition of academic degrees in order to prepare students for teaching and research in the field of philosophy and religious studies and, above all, to prepare students for high quality dialog whit modern world and society.