Challenges and Best Practices

28-30 October 2024, Łódź ,Poland | Deadline for submissions: 31 July 2024

With the growing interest in Holocaust geographies, researchers, projects and/or educators increasingly work and struggle with data representing the places and spaces of Holocaust history. We invite researchers creating and using geospatial data in the field of Holocaust studies to submit their application for the international EHRI workshop Holocaust Places and Spaces as Data: Challenges and Best Practices. The workshop aims to share experience and discuss practical challenges many projects working with spatial data encounter. At the same time, we want to reflect on broader heuristic, epistemological and ethical issues triggered by turning places into data.

The latest EHRI Document Blogpost Ukrainian Police and the Holocaust in Ukraine. A Brief Overview is written by Daniil Sytnyk and translated into English by Amber Nickel. It analyses the activities and participation of diverse Ukrainian auxiliary police units in mass atrocities committed against Jews on the micro level.

From Camp Survival to Camp Life: Digitising Greek-Jewish Social Networks in Auschwitz-Birkenau

EHRI Webinar | 11 June 2024 | 3:00 PM CET | On Zoom

Since the mid-1980s, the structure of all major audiovisual Holocaust archives has rested on the conceptual triangulation of 'testimony', the 'witness', and 'survival'. The audiovisual testimony becomes the organising unit of the digital Holocaust archive and thus determines its serial logic.

With Jonathan Matthews, former Head of Yad Vashem's Photo Archives 

"It was a thorough and engaging exploration of Holocaust photo archives. Jonathan was excellent" - Simon Edwards, PhD Student

Watch the video of the Online Lecture

Approaches, Sources, Methodologies

November 4 - 7 2024 | German Exile Archive 1933-1945 | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2024

We are pleased to announce the forthcoming EHRI Seminar “Holocaust and Exile: Approaches, Sources, Methodologies”, which is co-organized by the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) and the German Exile Archive 1933-1945 (DEA) as part of the German National Library, one of the leading archives in the field of exile studies. The DEA, which celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2024, will also host the event. We aim at a diverse group of participants and encourage especially junior researchers, archivists, librarians, and people working in memorial sites to apply.

On 19^th March 2024, EHRI organised an international workshop on the practical impact of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on access to Holocaust-related archival collections.

The workshop was hosted by EHRI’s long-term partner CegeSoma and was attended by archival and legal professionals with expertise in the topic from across six European countries as well as representatives of the Monitoring Access to Holocaust Collections Project of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), the Ministry of the Foreign Office of the Republic of Poland and the National Archive of the Netherlands.

RESILIENCE, the European cross-disciplinary research infrastructure serving the study of religion, launches its third call for applications for Transnational Access Fellowships. The call will be open March 15 to May 1, 2024. Users will gain direct, fast, and effective access to the collections of leading research institutions and universities in Europe, guided by experts in the field.

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Exploring Lived Experiences

Pinus Rubinstein, a barber who lived in the city of Cernăuți (Chernivtsi, now in Ukraine), kept his diary for most of his adult life from 1900 to 1949. In three handwritten notebooks, amounting to hundreds of pages, Rubinstein recorded a unique long-term personal experience with life in then-Romania, including the political radicalisation in the late 1930s.

Austria Strengthens International Research into the Holocaust with a National Consortium

Since 2010, EHRI's central task has been to enable and support transnational research into the Holocaust. With the official founding of EHRI-AT in February 2024, Austrian Holocaust research has taken an important step towards the creation of a permanent European research infrastructure.

Jewish Life in the Baltic Region Before, During, and After the Holocaust | 2-5 September 2024 | Riga, Latvia

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia, and the Museum “Jews in Latvia” are pleased to invite applications for an international conference entitled, "Jewish Life in the Baltic Region Before, During, and After the Holocaust." The conference is scheduled for September 2-5, 2024, in Riga, Latvia.