On 14 January 2016, the CENDARI research infrastructure was launched at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences & Humanities.

CENDARI

CENDARI is an acronym referring to the Collaborative European Digital Archival Research Infrastructure, a 4-year, European Commission-funded project which integrates digital archives and resources for the pilot areas of medieval culture and the First World War. As such CENDARI has strong affiliations with EHRI.

EHRI partner, the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum in Lithuania has acquired a new artifact, a headscarf with an important story. Neringa Latvytė tells about it.

The Holocaust Exhibition of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum was enriched by an unique exhibit – a dark blue headscarf with white dots. It belonged to Dita Šperlingienė–Zupavičienė, former prisoner of the Kaunas Ghetto and Stutthof Concentration Camp, who presented the headscarf to the Museum.

In its new phase, the EHRI project has 23 partners, of which 11 are new. In this article, one new partner, the "Elie Wiesel" National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania, introduces itself.

The “Elie Wiesel” National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania is a governmental institution, located in Bucharest, founded in 2005.

The “Elie Wiesel” Institute conducts research projects and coordinates educational, cultural and commemorative activities, aiming to prevent anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial and to raise public awareness regarding the consequences of intolerant behaviours such as discrimination, racism and xenophobia.

April 4-5 2016, Jerusalem

From the time they assumed power – and even beforehand – the Nazi regime's policy towards the Jews drew responses from both the Jewish and the non-Jewish world. Many aspects of the Nazi influence outside the areas over which they ruled have been addressed by scholars, but very little attention has been given to aspects related to the Middle East (aside from the Jewish settlement in the land of Israel and the Mufti of Jerusalem). The aim of this conference is to address various aspects of this neglected issue.