Organized by the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, the second EHRI Summer School has started on July 22 in Munich under favourable circumstances. The first two weeks of the course take place at the Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing, an independent institution that conducts – partially in cooperation with other partners – courses, seminars, conferences and workshops on their premises in Tutzing at Lake Starnberg. It may not always be easy to focus on the Holocaust with such a sunny view of the beautiful lake, but the impressive programme will assure the attention of all the participants.

The course offers a mixture of lectures and presentations of renowned Holocaust researchers and excursions to local sites, such as the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, the Obersalzberg and to various important archives. There is also time for study, discussion and the trainees will have the opportunity to present their own research projects.

In the third week of the Summer School the trainees move to new quarters in the city of Munich where the EHRI Summer School will coincide with the Summer Academy on the Holocaust of the Ludwig Maximilians Universität (MISU).

Read the Programme EHRI Summer School Munich.

Photos: © Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing. First photo, from left to right: Dieter Pohl from the Universität Klagenfurt, Johannes Hürter, Andreas Wirsching and Andrea Löw from the Institut für Zeitgeschichte. Second photo: view of the rooftop of the Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing.

On July 15 the first EHRI Summer School of 2013 started in Paris. Read more about the EHRI Summer School Paris.

Later this year EHRI will announce a new call for the EHRI Summer Schools of 2014 that will take place at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, and at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. Watch this page for more information on EHRI Summer Schools.