Release date: 10 November 2022 | More about the Podcast Series For the Living and the Dead. Traces of the Holocaust

In this episode we are presenting a story from Belgium, that of Norbert Vos, his family and his teddy bear. Norbert Vos was still a baby when on 10 May 1940 Germany invaded and occupied Belgium. The family was Jewish and the danger to them was imminent. After an attempt to flee, Norbert’s mother, Lea, found herself alone with her baby boy; her parents and husband were already deported. To save her life and that of Norbert, Lea knew she had to go into hiding and she desperately tried to find a place. After several disastrous attempts, she and Norbert, almost by chance, finally found a relatively safe haven with a café-owner and his wife and daughter. It was with this family that they managed to survive the war, and that Norbert received a present from the little girl of the family: a teddy bear, a gift that he and the girl would hold on to for the rest of their lives until they donated it to Kazerne Dossin.

Deadline for submission: January 23, 2023

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Archives is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications for its 2023 fellowship program. In 2023, three to six fellowships will be awarded to senior scholars, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and independent researchers to conduct research in the JDC Archives, either in New York or in Jerusalem.  The archives' finding aids can be consulted to identify relevant areas. The fellowship awards are $2,500 and the deadline for submission is January 23, 2023.

Tracing the Dislocation of a Sinti Family in a Genocidal Context: the R165 Collection of the German Federal Archives

The latest EHRI Blogpost, written by EHRI fellow Théophile Leroy, introduces a collection held at the German Bundesarchiv of importance for the Sinti and Roma genocide.

Racial research conducted by the Rassenhygienische Forschungsstelle from the late 1930s was used by the criminal police authorities to identify and deport individuals labeled as “Gypsies” and to achieve the Sinti and Roma genocide. The post follows the story of a Rhineland Sinti family and maps their persecution trajectories.

November 14-16, 2022 | Tel Aviv University, Israel 

You are invited to register for In-Person or Online Participation in the International Conference 70 Years of Holocaust Compensation and Restitution, organised by EHRI partner Yad Vashem, and Tel Aviv University, the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center and supported by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference). 

Please find the programme and registration here.