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Yiddish Early Holocaust Testimony

New Yiddish Documents Added to the EHRI Online Edition "Early Holocaust Testimony"

18/03/2024

Last month, EHRI has launched a new series of survivors’ testimonies recorded before 1960. The second EHRI Online Edition, the Early Holocaust Testimony, has been expanded by these unique documents written in the Yiddish language. Users can follow both versions – the nowadays rarely used and studied Yiddish original and the English translation – to explore the early memories of the Holocaust across Europe, like in this testimony of a 15-year-old Jewish boy describing the German invasion of Wyszków:

EHRI Austria Conference

Second EHRI-AT Conference in Graz on Holocaust Literature and Ego-Documents

14/03/2024

Organised by Centrum für Jüdische Studien, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz; Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien (VWI) | 11-12 December 2023 | Graz Austria

by Florine Miez, Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien

From the beginning, writing about the Holocaust has been shaped by considerations of form, questions of different media and genres as well as the limits of language. This second EHRI-AT Conference brought together debates about ego-documents and reflections on Holocaust literature and asked about the challenges that these different texts/materials pose for archives, edition projects as well as in the field of Holocaust education.

The Shoah Memorial, Milan

Call for Papers UK Conference | The 'Holocaust by Bullets' in Literature, Film and Visual Art

14/03/2024

Date: 18 September 2024 - 19 September 2024, 10:00AM - 6:00PM GMT | Location: Bedford Room, G37, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London, UK | Deadline: 22 March 2024

Bestselling novels such as Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated (2002, film adaptation 2005), Jonathan Littell’s Les Bienveillantes (2006, The Kindly Ones, 2009) and Katja Petrowskaja’s Vielleicht Esther (2014, Maybe Esther, 2018) have increased public and scholarly discussion of Holocaust mass shootings and their remembrance, yet remain notable exceptions to an overall scarcity of representations of these atrocities. For the most part, literary, cinematic and artistic depictions of mass shootings have been belated, schematic and often at the margins of works dealing with other themes or with other facets of the Holocaust. While specific events, such as the Babi Jar massacre of September 1941, have found their place in memory and art, many more events are still being recovered for commemoration. 

Jonathan Mathews Online Lecture

Online Lecture | Methodological Challenges of Photography Collections and Cataloguing

13/03/2024

with Jonathan Matthews, former Head of Yad Vashem's Photo Archives

April 9th, 2024 at 2:30 PM CET

The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) and partner Yad Vashem invite you to a unique online lecture, which will discuss and dissect ongoing and new issues within the world of Holocaust photography collections. 

The lecture is aimed at (photo) archivists, historians or researchers working with photographs.

USHMM Workshop on Finding Religion in the USHMM Collections

Call for Applications Workshop EHRI Partner | Finding Religion in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Collections

12/03/2024

July 29-Aug 2, 2024 | Washington D.C., US | Applications due: March 31, 2024

New Methods for Archival Research

This in-person workshop will allow participants to explore a recently developed research guide that highlights the diversity and scope of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s (USHMM) archival collections that relate to religion (broadly defined). 

Symposium Sobibor

Symposium NIOD Amsterdam | Excavating Sobibor. Holocaust Archaeology Between Heritage, History and Memory

04/03/2024

14 March, 9:30 AM - 5 PM CET | Het Trippenhuis, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

The archaeological research at the site of the former Nazi extermination Camp Sobibor, which began in 2000 and continued until 2020, represents the most extensive archaeological excavations to have been held at a Holocaust site. For this symposium, EHRI coordinator NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies is bringing together an international group of interdisciplinary scholars to shed light on archaeological research on Sobibor and its broader context from multiple perspectives.

A Soviet monument at the site of the shooting of Jews in Kherson

New EHRI Blogpost: the Jewish Ghetto in Kherson, Ukraine

29/02/2024

From Urban Legend to Documented Fact: The History and Memory of the Jewish Ghetto and the Holocaust in Kherson

In this new EHRI Document Blogpost, Yurii Kaparulin traces the history of the Kherson ghetto and the mass murders, as well as the investigation of the crimes after the liberation. It also describes the efforts made in recent years to document and commemorate the victims of the Nazi regime in Kherson.

EHRI Workshop Novi Sad

Call for Applications | Archival Basics: A Hands-On EHRI Workshop for Micro-Archives

23/02/2024

European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) Workshop

Organized by the German Federal Archives in cooperation with the Jewish Community of Novi Sad |Date: May 28-30, 2024 |  Venue: Jewish Community Novi Sad, Serbia (Jevrejska 11, 21 000 Novi Sad) | Application Deadline: 19 March 2024

I. Workshop description

The Federal Archives is partner in the transnational project EHRI (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure) funded by the European Union under the European scheme Horizon2020.

Webinar Societies under German Occupation

Next EHRI Webinar 20 March | Societies under German Occupation

15/02/2024

An Online Source Edition on Everyday Life of Occupied Societies during the Second World War

EHRI Webinar | 20 March 2024 | 3:00 PM CET | On Zoom

During the Second World War, approximately 230 million people in 27 countries lived under German occupation. Despite these high numbers, the German public knows very little about the experiences of the occupied societies throughout Europe. The Online Portal “Societies under German Occupation” ties in here and provides sources on everyday life of occupied societies during the Second World War, with a specific focus on dealing with hunger and scarcity.

Vienna Seminar Group Photo

EHRI Seminar in Vienna: “I Deeply Enjoyed Attending this Enriching Mind Growing Fascinating Seminar."

05/02/2024

Using Digital Tools and Methods to Facilitate Holocaust Research

By Florine Miez, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute

The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) hosted the EHRI Methodology Seminar “What’s New in Austrian Holocaust research? Digital Tools & Methods” from January 16-18, 2024. The participants came to the VWI from Israel, USA, Sweden, Romania, the Czech Republic and also Vienna to spend three days learning about the latest developments in Austrian Holocaust research and new methods.

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