EHRI Newsletter - May 2017 | European Holocaust Research Infrastructure

EHRI Newsletter - May 2017

Call for Proposals EHRI Workshop: Standing up to Scrutiny: Authenticating Holocaust Documentation
	13/04/2017 International Workshop within the Framework of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure 23-25 October 2017. Location: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, USA Call for Proposals for an international EHRI workshop on authenticating Holocaust documentation to be held at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, on October 23–25, 2017.
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Call for Papers Special Issue of Quest: Holocaust Research and Archives in the Digital Age
	13/04/2017 Special EHRI-inspired issue of Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History (Journal of Fondazione CDEC www.quest-cdecjournal.it) to be published in June 2018. Edited by Laura Brazzo (Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea, Milan) and Reto Speck (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam and King’s College London).
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New EHRI Document Blog Post: Registration Cards: the Holocaust Survivors in Poland
	19/04/2017 How did people search for their displaced and deported family members after WWII? In this new EHRI blog post, Anna Rosner from the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw examines how the Central Committee for the Polish Jews registered Holocaust survivors between 1944 and 1947 - a process that was mainly used to help reunite families in the years immediately following the establishing of the Committee.
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Call for Applications EHRI Seminar in Lviv: Advanced Holocaust Studies Today
	16/03/2017 International Workshop within the Framework of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure 17–22 September 2017 Location: Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine Applications are invited for the international EHRI Seminar: Advanced Holocaust Studies Today: Sources and Approaches in Lviv, Ukraine, 17–22 September 2017. The organizer is NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Amsterdam) in cooperation with the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History (Munich), and in partnership with the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (Lviv).
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EHRI Fellow Kylie Thomas: Amsterdam’s "Hunger Winter" and the Photographs of Emmy Andriesse
	02/05/2017 Article by Kylie Thomas The image of a young boy standing in the street in Amsterdam during the Second World War, is perhaps the most famous of Emmy Andriesse’s images that portray the terrible effects of war and starvation on the Dutch population. The child’s small somber face can be seen from the side, the light illuminating his fragile ear and his hair which seems to be standing up around his head from the cold. His thin hands are holding a large dark metal pot, a visual metonym for his empty stomach. He is dressed in an over-sized coat which covers his emaciated body up to his waist. Beneath his coat are short pants that end at his knees and his bare legs protrude below and hardly seem strong enough to bear his weight. His shoes also appear to be too large and, in spite of the cold, he is not wearing socks. The child is shown at the centre of the image and the gaze of the viewer is drawn to his face and to the quiet suffering his expression transmits. He is standing still in the frame and all the senseless suffering of war seems to be concentrated in his small body and seems to be bearing down upon him, making him seem even smaller.
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Partner in EHRI: Jewish Museum in Prague
	01/05/2017 The Jewish Museum in Prague was established in 1906 and holds one of the most extensive collections of Judaica in the world, with as many as 40,000 items and 100,000 books from Bohemia and Moravia. It is consistently the most visited museum in the Czech republic. In addition to its permanent and temporary exhibitions, the museum focuses on organising various cultural and educational events related to the Jewish history and life. Another important focus of the museum is on the period of modern Jewish history, in particular the history and fate of Jews in the 20^th century. This area of interest is mainly dealt with by the museum's Shoah History Department, Archives, Photo Archive and Department for Education and Culture.
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People in EHRI: Daniel Cesarani, Wiener Library and EHRI Communications
	03/05/2017 Daniel Cesarani works in the Visitor Services Team and Collections Department of The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide in London’s Russell Square. I have been working with EHRI since soon after I joined the Wiener Library around a year and a half ago. With a strong family connection to Holocaust studies I wanted to work in a field that could support academics working in the field and increase my experience in the subject at the same time. The Wiener Library gave me both opportunities and EHRI has proven to be a very welcome addition to my responsibilities here. At The Wiener Library I am in charge of the Periodicals Collection as well as responding to question from our readers via the Wiener Library Contact page.
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EHRI partners

KNAW – NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NL)
KNAW – DANS Data Archiving and Networked Services (NL)
Belgian State Archives/CegeSoma (BE)
Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ)
Yad Vashem (IL)
Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (DE)
King's College London (UK)
Holocaust Documentation Center (SK)
Kazerne Dossin (BE)
The Wiener Holocaust Library (UK)
’Elie Wiesel’ National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania (RO)
Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (AT)

Shoah Memorial (FR)
Jewish Historical Institute (PL)
US Holocaust Memorial Museum (US)
National Research Council (IT)
Arolsen Archives (DE)
Federal Archives (DE)
Inria – team ALMAnaCH (FR)
Polish Center for Holocaust Research (PL)
Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center Foundation (IT)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR)
Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History (LT)
Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives (HU)
Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (UA)
Jewish Museum in Prague (CZ)
Jewish Museum of Greece (GR)

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