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EHRI Webinar | 27 November 2024 | 3:00 PM CET | On Zoom
- Start with the first EHRI Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): “It Must All be Recorded Without a Single Fact Left Out” - The Holocaust through the Perspective of Primary Sources In this new online video course produced by EHRI and Yad Vashem, you will explore diaries, photographs, official Nazi documents, postwar survivor testimonies and much more - all together with leading scholars in the field. You will become acquainted with original documents and gain hands-on experience in using them while learning about their importance, and the unique perspectives they provide us into this cataclysmic event. The MOOC is hosted on the Coursera Platform and free of charge. Follow this link to find out more about the MOOC and start your first lesson today: EHRI MOOC
- Listen to an episode of the EHRI Podcast “For the Living and the Dead. Traces of the Holocaust”. In each episode of “For the Living and the Dead”, a Holocaust researcher talks about an object, now often in a museum or archive, that tells a very personal story about the Holocaust. The first and second season of the EHRI podcast featured a teddy bear, sunflowers, a postcard, gramophone discs, birch-bark tefilllin and a typewriter. The unique stories come from all over Europe – the Holocaust being a continent-wide phenomenon – ranging from Belgium to Ukraine, from Romania to Italy. The EHRI Podcast series contains 2 seasons and 12 episodes of around 30 minutes. A third season will be released in the autumn.
“My time at the Bundesarchiv-Lichterfelde as a European Holocaust Research Infrastructure #fellow has been illuminating. I have been able to see original documents that I have only read about and found fascinating information about programs that have yet to be studied. This has been a wonderful opportunity to further my own research and knowledge,” says Jennifer Putnam, an EHRI Conny Kristel Fellow, about her stay at the Bundesarchiv.
Jennifer Putnam is now a Research Historian at the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy at the National World War II Museum. Jennifer received her PhD in History from the University of London, where she studied prisoner graffiti in Nazi concentration camps and ghettos. Her current research focuses on Briefaktion, a forced letter-writing campaign that camouflaged the true purpose of the concentration and death camps.
Read more about the EHRI Conny Kristel Fellowships
By Researching Hungarian Jewish Community History Books
The latest EHRI Document Blogpost, written by former EHRI fellow and Oxford Doctoral Candidate Barnabas Balint, identifies a specific genre of local history source – Hungarian Jewish community history books. These books are similar to Yizkor books, that are Hebrew and Yiddish language memorial books that document the Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust.
In this blogpost, Barnabas Balint explores the contribution of these Jewish community books to our understanding of the Holocaust, including the history of Orthodox Jews and provincial areas of Hungary.
The example of the book of Ujpest showcases how this source can elaborate on the under-studied aspects of Hungarian Jewish history, provides insight into Jewish and non-Jewish spaces, and opens new opportunities for further research.
EHRI was praised for its “exceptional results”
The day after the EHRI Academic Conference: Researching the Holocaust in the Digital Age, EHRI’s annual General Partners Meeting was hosted by the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw. Over fifty members of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) consortium, representing more than fifteen countries gathered to hear the latest updates of the work of EHRI.
On Tuesday 18 June 2024, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) project hosted the international academic conference “Researching the Holocaust in the Digital Age” at the Staszic Palace, home of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw. EHRI partners in Poland, the Polish Center for Holocaust Research and the Jewish Historical Institute were co-organisers of the conference.
A recording of the conference with time schedule is available on our YouTube channel or on this webpage.
While some basic information about the Pest ghetto is well-known among researchers and the general public, little has been written about its micro-history. This blog article, written by former EHRI fellow Borbála Klacsmann, discusses the establishment and daily life in the ghetto primarily using the documents created by the Jewish Council concerning the administration and everyday functioning.
A Hands-On Seminar on Implementing Crowdsourcing Projects for Micro-Archives
November, 25-28, 2024 | Location: Arolsen Archives - International Center on Nazi Persecution | Bad Arolsen, Germany | Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2024
Crowdsourcing can be an ideal way for institutions with archival collections to enrich their holdings, working with the public to, e.g., identify places and people in photographs, transcribe documents, or obtain other information
By Dora Komnenovic (Bundesarchiv)
Ever since the beginning of the project, EHRI (the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure) has been committed to enabling transnational Holocaust research by, among other things, integrating archival descriptions from institutions all over Europe, Israel and the United States. In recent years the scope of action has been broadened to include smaller archival collections that hold equally relevant materials into the research infrastructure, i.e. the EHRI Portal. The EHRI Portal offers access to information on Holocaust-related archival material held in institutions across Europe and beyond.