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EHRI Timeline

20/12/2012

Behind the scenes of EHRI a team of professionals is working hard to develop what is going to be EHRI’s main achievement: an online portal that will give access to now dispersed Holocaust resources and a Virtual Research Environment that will encourage advanced and collaborative research.

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People in EHRI: Ewa Mork

19/12/2012
Head of Documentation at the Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo (HL-senteret), Norway
Member of EHRI Work Package 18 on Keywords/Thesaurus

HL-senteret is probably the youngest institution among the EHRI affiliates. The creation of the center was a result of a year-long process involving the restitution of property and assets confiscated from the Norwegian Jews during the Second World War.

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EHRI Job Offer: Research Developer at King's College London

11/12/2012

EHRI partner King´s College London, Department of Digital Humanities, Centre for e-Research (CeRch) is seeking a Research Developer in dynamic web development including implementation of front-end interfaces.

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One of the Most Important Archival Collections on the Terezín Ghetto Now Online

11/12/2012

On the occasion the 71st anniversary of the founding of the Terezín Ghetto, the Jewish Museum in Prague, an EHRI partner, is publishing on-line it’s Terezín collection. The documents are published on a newly created online catalogue for the Jewish Museum’s collections. The URL is: http://collections.jewishmuseum.cz/.

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EHRI Mapping Holocaust-related Archives in Greece

03/12/2012
European Holocaust researchers gather in Athens

Athens. The European Union’s EHRI project is now studying Holocaust related archives and collections in Greece. The Holocaust was definitely also a Greek tragedy. Less than twenty percent of the Jewish population of this European member state survived the Nazi reign of terror.

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Early Attempts at the Historical Documentation of the Holocaust

26/11/2012
International Workshop within the framework of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), supported by the European Union
Holocaust Memorial Center - Budapest November 27-28, 2012

Early documentations of the Holocaust still influence the way we look upon the mass destruction of European Jews during World War 2. But who created these collections and what were their motives?

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EHRI Summer Schools in Holocaust Studies 2013

22/10/2012

EHRI (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure) invites applications to its two summer schools on Holocaust studies in 2013. The summer schools are being funded by the European Union.

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People in EHRI: Wolfgang Schellenbacher

10/10/2012
EHRI Work Package Member on Trans-institutional Research Guides

When Michal Frankl, Head of the Shoah History department at the Jewish Museum in Prague, asked me to be a part of EHRI, I was really excited to be involved in such a large and ambitious project, working together with Holocaust institutions throughout Europe and Israel.

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Public Opening of Mémorial de la Shoah at Drancy

10/10/2012

In September French EHRI partner Mémorial de la Shoah opened a new place in Drancy, devoted to history and education, located in front of the Cité de la Muette.

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The Aftermath of Genocide: Victims and Perpetrators, Representations and Interpretations

08/10/2012
10th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Genocide Scholars
June 19-22, 2013, Siena
CALL FOR PAPERS

The way societies deal with the violence and massacres of the recent past is one of the aspects of genocide studies that needs to be interpreted, deepened and fully analyzed.

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