For International Women's Day 2021, we would like to highlight an EHRI Document Blog Post that is about a woman's history, Lotte Porges - The Story Behind the Photograph:

In 2018, under the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure umbrella, the Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania organized a workshop dedicated to Holocaust research, education and remembrance in South-Eastern Europe. The workshop inspired a book The Holocaust in South-Eastern Europe, edited by Adina Babeș-Fruchter, Ana Bărbulescu, and now published by Vernon Press.

A hybrid expert symposium, 9 April 2021, Live stream from De Balie Amsterdam, the Netherlands

To mark the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the domain of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at EHRI coordinator, the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and at the University of Amsterdam, this symposium takes stock of the accomplishments of the past, and draws up a vision for the future.

Examining American Responses to the Holocaust: Digital Possibilities

A Virtual Conference - October 10-15, 2021 | Hosted by the FDR Library and Museum, located in Hyde Park, New York

Submission deadline: March 26, 2021

In April, 2017, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum launched the Morgenthau Holocaust Collection Project (MHCP), a multiyear, multiplatform initiative to expand awareness of underutilized primary source material on the Holocaust through digital publication, exhibits, and public programs. As part of this initiative, the FDR Library is organizing a conference that will examine the current state of Holocaust scholarship and the contemporary relevance of the US government’s response to the Holocaust, with a special emphasis on how the field of digital humanities and the increasing need for and access to digital research is changing the way Holocaust research is conducted and disseminated.

The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), a consortium of 25 partners in Europe and beyond, contributes to the study and memory of the Holocaust by enhancing free access to what lies at their basis: the historical sources.

We express our grave concern over the recent attempts in Poland and elsewhere to limit the freedom of research, as well as our solidarity with Holocaust scholars Barbara Engelking (Poland) and Jan Grabowski (Canada).

29 August–2 September 2021 | Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel

Application Deadline: 23 April 2021

The Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) are pleased to invite applications for a research workshop entitled, "Everyday Life of Jews in the USSR during the Holocaust and its Early Aftermath." The workshop is scheduled for August 29–September 2, 2021 at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. This is the third research workshop co-organized by Yad Vashem and USHMM with a focus on the former Soviet Union.

The Wiener Holocaust Library, located in London, has launched a new digital resource, Testifying to the Truth, which is now freely accessible online. This online database shares eyewitness accounts from the Holocaust, many of which have never been available to the public online before and have been translated, by a team of the Library’s volunteers, into English for the first time.

1 Feb 2021 | B’nai B’rith International

International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Time: 4pm CET

On 1 February, you can join the EU Affairs team of B'nai B'rith International in marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day – 76 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. In a world with fewer and fewer survivors, and following a year that has challenged everyone's understanding of connectedness, this event focusses on innovation and cooperation as two key motors for remembrance.

Despite the upheaval caused by Covid-19, EHRI’s two projects have advanced well over the past year. A lot of credit for maintaining the momentum in both EHRI-Preparatory Phase and EHRI-3 is due to the dedication of all involved. We give special thanks to colleagues who began working for EHRI shortly before, or even during lockdowns.

EHRI will remain very active in 2021. We look forward, for example, to the inaugural meeting of EHRI’s Board of Governmental Representatives - a committee of distinguished representatives from national ministries and funding bodies that will play a key role in developing the permanent EHRI organisation. In EHRI as elsewhere, the repetitive lockdowns have stimulated a can-do approach to activities that ordinarily would involve travel. Most prominent at this moment is our call for applications to the Conny Kristel Fellowships, which offer international access to an unprecedented range of key archives and collections, as well as to archival and digital humanities expertise. If possible and needed, remote access is now part of the equation. We also wish to highlight our Document Blog, our ever-growing podium for brief, innovative interpretations and presentations of vivid primary sources.

On 27 January, EHRI, and its partners will mark Holocaust Memorial Day. Recent events and developments show that this day more important than ever. To truly honour the victims of the Holocaust, all of us need to redouble our efforts to erect barriers against the rapid spread of hate speech, lies and misinformation, and to push back against the rising tide of antisemitism, racism and xenophobia. By providing access to reliable and properly contextualised sources from across the world, and by supporting new research into the origins, mechanics and legacy of the Holocaust, EHRI critically contributes to this mission.

EHRI partner, the 'Elie Wiesel' National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania, is launching a digital project, the Holocaust in Romania platform, meant to promote the remembrance of Holocaust victims and encourage the discovery of the past.