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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 […]
Monday, February 10th, 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. Research data management is an important element of responsible research and describes the practices through which data is collected and […]
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.
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
On Monday 20 January 2025, 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. […]