Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program 

Yad Vashem

Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority, was established by the Israeli Parliament in 1953. Located on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem, Yad Vashem is dedicated to Holocaust remembrance, documentation, research and education.

International Workshop, within the Framework of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), supported by the European Commission

Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, 9-11 February, 2015

We would like to invite you to participate in the international workshop on Holocaust Art to be held at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem on 9-11 February, 2015. 

Workshop Rationale

By his very function, the artist is the witness of freedom…. By his function he is engaged in the density of history, where man’s very flesh stifles.

Albert Camus, "The Artist as Witness of Freedom: The Independent Mind in an Age of Ideologies", Commentary Magazine, January 1949.

The EHRI project is currently in its final phase, and all hands are on deck to get our work finished in time for the Presentation of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure on 26 March 2015 in Berlin.

Lasting impact

Successfully finishing our current work is of course vitally important. Nevertheless, we have recently also put much effort into ensuring that EHRI has a future well beyond March 2015.

On the 22nd of October 2014, Judith Levin and Veerle Vanden Daelen presented the current working version of the EHRI portal to a group of researchers for the first time. The participants of the EHRI workshop on Early Attempts at the Historical Documentation of the Holocaust (Prague, 20-23 October 2014) formed this first group of pioneers. They were able to have a look at the EHRI directory of over 1,850 repositories holding Holocaust-related archival sources, and some 3,000 manually added collection descriptions. Needless to say, the bulk of the collection descriptions will only become visible in a later stage, when the IT-imported information will be added to this work-in-progress. Nevertheless, EHRI already wanted to collect feedback on what is available and hear what the target audience’s first impressions were.