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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 | 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 geographical Holocaust […]
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.
Sunday, January 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, January 21st, 2025
With the transformation of EHRI into EHRI-ERIC, the question of enlargement of EHRI-ERIC’s membership is of particular importance. From December 11-12 2024, the Viennese Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI), the work package leader of EHRI-IP WP6 “Acquisition of New Members and Funding” therefore organised a workshop for prospective member and observer countries from Central […]
Monday, January 20th, 2025
Interested in learning more about the difference EHRI has made to Holocaust research and documentation? EHRI has started to collect case studies to showcase the various benefits of its services and activities to its many users. Find out here. EHRI as a Goldmine for Geneaologists EHRI Helps Fill a Gap in the Bibliography of Jewish […]
Monday, January 20th, 2025
Today, the European Commission has granted the legal status of European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) to the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), making EHRI the 30th ERIC established since 2011. This recognition highlights EHRI’s vital role in safeguarding the historical record of the Holocaust and its ongoing relevance to modern society. This development marks a […]
Wednesday, January 15th, 2025
The new EHRI online edition “The Sunflower. History and Reception of a Literary Holocaust Testimony” by the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies was launched with an online event on Tuesday 14th January. The edition presents archival sources on the birth and afterlife of Simon Wiesenthal’s book “The Sunflower” (1969/70) – a crucial text of […]
Monday, January 13th, 2025
From 25 to 28 November 2024, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure held the seminar ‘Citizen Science in the Archival Domain. A Hands-On Seminar on Implementing Crowdsourcing Projects for Micro-Archives’ hosted by the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History and the Arolsen Archives in Bad Arolsen. Nine participants from Germany, Austria, Ukraine and the Netherlands spent four days exploring the opportunities and challenges of implementing crowdsourcing projects.
Monday, December 23rd, 2024
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Archives is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications for its 2025 fellowship program. In 2025, three to six fellowships will be awarded to senior scholars, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and independent researchers to conduct research in the JDC Archives. Our finding aids can be consulted to […]