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Max Bredig Passport

Digitization | Science History Institute Receives CLIR Grant to Digitize Papers of Georg and Max Bredig

08/04/2021

Collection Smuggled Out of Nazi Germany Tells Story of Noted German Jewish Scientist’s Rise to Prominence and His Family’s Struggle to Survive the Holocaust

 

The Science History Institute has been awarded a $198,454 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) for the project Science and Survival: Digitizing the Papers of Georg and Max Bredig. The Institute’s project was one of only 16 selected from a pool of 151 applicants for CLIR’s Digitizing Hidden Collections grant program funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Haifa University Conference

Online Conference | Witnessing Presence and Absence in Genocidal Testimony

25/03/2021

The Strochlitz Institute for Holocaust Research at the University of Haifa invites you to an international online conference.

May 13, 2021 | 4:00-7:30 p.m. (Israel time)

 

It will be an Online (Zoom) Conference. The Zoom link will be sent 24 hours prior to the conference.

The discussions will be held in English. Abstracts will be available closer to the date (sent by email).

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EHRI in TEITOK

New EHRI Document Blog | EHRI in TEITOK

22/03/2021

This new EHRI blog post focusses on digital methods and describes using TEITOK to provide an alternative view on the available EHRI document editions and the design of an experimental EHRI interface. The creation of this is illustrated by using examples from the EHRI online edition BeGrenzte Flucht.

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King's College London

EHRI Job Offer | Research Associate in Digital Humanities at King's College London

16/03/2021

Closing date: 9 April 2021

EHRI partner, King's College London Department of Digital Humanities (KCL DDH) is seeking a Research Developer with experience in web application development and implementation of front-end web interfaces.

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Meeting Board of Governmental Representatives

First Meeting EHRI Board of Governmental Representatives

15/03/2021

On Tuesday, 2 March 2021, the first EHRI Board of Governmental Representatives (BGR) meeting took place. The BGR consists of distinguished representatives of decision-making ministries and/or funding bodies. Delegates from Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Romania and the United Kingdom met online to acquaint themselves with the EHRI project and to discuss how the BGR can contribute to transforming EHRI from a project into a permanent Research Infrastructure.

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Alfred Landecker Lecturer Program

Call for Applications | Alfred Landecker Lecturer Program

09/03/2021

Deadline for submission: 31 March 2021

The Alfred Landecker Foundation is pleased to invite applications from highly qualified postdocs in the humanities, particularly from the field of history, and social sciences for a full-time lecturer program set to begin on October 1, 2021. Up to five university lectureships will each run for five years. The selection process is led by the Alfred Landecker Foundation’s Academic Council.

The program

The program’s mission is to support outstanding, cutting-edge research by individuals on the history and aftermath of the Holocaust and on the social and political transmission of memory of the Holocaust. Because there is no lack of research on such matters, they are in this call explicitly looking for applications with innovative approaches that relate to present-day challenges regarding the politics of memory and democracy. They are also interested in projects that deal with the methods and practices for educating and imparting knowledge about history in the digital age.

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EHRI Document Blog Lotte Porges

EHRI Document Blog | For International Women's Day 2021

08/03/2021

For International Women's Day 2021, we would like to highlight an EHRI Document Blog Post that is about a woman's history, Lotte Porges - The Story Behind the Photograph:

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Publication The Holocaust in Southeastern Europe

Publication | The Holocaust in South-Eastern Europe

04/03/2021

In 2018, under the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure umbrella, the Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania organized a workshop dedicated to Holocaust research, education and remembrance in South-Eastern Europe. The workshop inspired a book The Holocaust in South-Eastern Europe, edited by Adina Babeș-Fruchter, Ana Bărbulescu, and now published by Vernon Press.

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Holocaust and Genocide Symposium

Online Symposium | Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Looking Backward, Moving Forward

02/03/2021

A hybrid expert symposium, 9 April 2021, Live stream from De Balie Amsterdam, the Netherlands

To mark the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the domain of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at EHRI coordinator, the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and at the University of Amsterdam, this symposium takes stock of the accomplishments of the past, and draws up a vision for the future.

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FDR Library

Call | Conference FDR Library: Examining American Responses to the Holocaust

18/02/2021

Examining American Responses to the Holocaust: Digital Possibilities

A Virtual Conference - October 10-15, 2021 | Hosted by the FDR Library and Museum, located in Hyde Park, New York

Submission deadline: March 26, 2021

In April, 2017, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum launched the Morgenthau Holocaust Collection Project (MHCP), a multiyear, multiplatform initiative to expand awareness of underutilized primary source material on the Holocaust through digital publication, exhibits, and public programs. As part of this initiative, the FDR Library is organizing a conference that will examine the current state of Holocaust scholarship and the contemporary relevance of the US government’s response to the Holocaust, with a special emphasis on how the field of digital humanities and the increasing need for and access to digital research is changing the way Holocaust research is conducted and disseminated.

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