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Wednesday, February 26th, 2025
Warsaw, 26 January 2025: On the eve of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) was inaugurated as a permanent European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) during a ceremony at the Polin Museum in Warsaw. See here for the programme. This follows the decision of the […]
Tuesday, February 25th, 2025
On 19 February, close after the Inauguration Ceremony of EHRI as a permanent organisation (a European Research Infrastructure Consortium – ERIC), the first meeting of the General Assembly took place online. Now that EHRI is no longer project based, but an actual organisation, the governance structure has changed fundamentally. The two main governance bodies are […]
Monday, February 24th, 2025
The study of photography and the Holocaust is a rapidly growing field. Following a group effort by specialists from many countries, EHRI is releasing an online bibliography focusing on the persecution and murder of the Jews from 1933 to 1945 and the photographic record. Created to serve researchers, students and the general public, the new […]
Saturday, February 22nd, 2025
EHRI launched the new free to access online course Aligning Holocaust Data with Open Research and FAIR Data Principles, produced by our partner Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) and offered on the platform OpenPlato (which you may Access as a guest without an account). Research data management is an important element of responsible research […]
Friday, February 21st, 2025
This EHRI Document Blogpost, by former Conny Kristel Fellow Luca Fiorito, examines Britain’s response to Italian antisemitism, revealing overlooked complexities in international politics and Jewish relief efforts. In 1938, Fascist Italy introduced racial laws targeting Jews, forcing many to flee abroad. In this blogpost, the case of a dismissed Italian officer, Massimo Adolfo Vitale, highlights […]
Monday, February 17th, 2025
Starting March 1, 2025, EHRI will stop posting on X and continue on social media platform Bluesky. EHRI has been successfully active on X (then Twitter) since 2013, but recent developments in the management of X have forced us to rethink our presence and decide that it is time for a change. We hope that […]
Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
The Babi Yar tract in Kyiv, Ukraine, is well-known as a site of murder and burial of Holocaust victims. During the Second World War, it was located on the outskirts of the city; now, it is part of the urban metropolis. Babi Yar has long held a significant position in Ukrainian intellectual discourse, serving as […]
Thursday, January 30th, 2025
Date: February 26-27, 2025 Venue: Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Social Sciences, 1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/a Are you interested in testimonies of Holocaust survivors? Do you want to contribute to Holocaust research? W ould you like to try cutting edge digital tools and methods? The hands-on workshop facilitates the building of an annotated, […]
Thursday, January 30th, 2025
EHRI Webinar 1 2025 | 19 February 2025 | 3:00 PM CET | On Zoom Placing the Holocaust is a multi-modal website that combines a GIS-based mapping platform with a semantic search engine for exploring postwar testimonies. Built by an interdisciplinary team based at the University of Maine, the website aims to stimulate and support […]
Thursday, January 30th, 2025
There’s a hole in one of the socks near where the toes should be. Is that where an elderly female prisoner deliberately knitted a defect? This is the question asked by Victoria Martinez and Britta Geschwind in the latest EHRI Document Blog post.