Deadline for applications: 15 March 2021
By facilitating international access to an unprecedented range of key archives and collections related to the Holocaust as well as archival and digital humanities expertise, the EHRI Conny Kristel Fellowships support and stimulate Holocaust research conducted by researchers, archivists, librarians, curators, and junior scholars, especially PhD candidates with limited resources.
Over the years EHRI has developed a broad range of services which have been delivered to a growing number of users of different backgrounds and disciplines. These services include those accessible online such as the EHRI Portal, the Documents Blog, The Online Editions, and Online Courses. In addition, various training services have been provided, and include a Fellowship Programme, workshops, seminars and conferences.
As we prepare to transform the EHRI project into a permanent research infrastructure, we aim to assess whether the existing EHRI services fulfill the current and future needs of EHRI’s user community. For this purpose, we have prepared a survey intended for current and potential future users of various EHRI services. The “EHRI Survey: User, Access and Training Strategies” has been prepared on an online platform through SurveyMonkey. The survey should take approximately 15-20 minutes to fill out.
In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated 27 January as the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, the day upon which every year the world would mark and remember the Holocaust and its victims. On 27 January 1945, the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp complex was liberated.
Holocaust Memorial Day or Holocaust Remembrance Day is worldwide marked by local, national and international events.
The majority of EHRI's partners also organise events on or around 27 January to commemorate the Holocaust, to learn and to never forget. Several of the events organised by our partners are listed below. Given the COVID-19 situation, most of them are online. This list is updated until 27 January.
EHRI partner, the Polish Center for Holocaust Research presents a new website version of their annual journal Holocaust. Studies and Materials (Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały). The website is integrated with Open Journal Systems and provides full editorial support - from submission, through reviews, editorial work, to publication of the article.
This new EHRI Document Blog post by Simo Muir describes the unknown story of parcel-sending campaigns led by Jewish families in Finland to the ghettos in Nazi-occupied Poland. By looking at the private parcel campaigns of the Blaugrund family, the post shows the significant impact that these parcels - containing used clothes, money and food - had on the lives of family members in ghettos, labour camps and in hiding.
Longstanding EHRI Partner Yad Vashem has created several ready2print exhibitions. The ready2print exhibitions are sophisticated, versatile and affordable, offering a comprehensive overview of various aspects of Holocaust history, and suitable for display in schools, universities, churches, libraries, archives and community centers over the world.
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Archives is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications for its 2021 fellowship program. In 2021, seven fellowships will be awarded to senior scholars, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and independent researchers to conduct research in the JDC Archives, either in New York or in Jerusalem.
By EHRI Directors, Karel Berkhoff and Reto Speck
The first EHRI project was officially launched at a kick-off event in Brussels on 16 November 2010. This means it is EHRI’s 10th birthday this week, and we thought this would be a fitting occasion to reflect on the project’s results and achievements, to stress its continuing relevance and to look forward to its future.
In 2020, EHRI could celebrate its 10-year anniversary. For the occasion, we gathered some of EHRI's most memorable moments from the decade in photo's, one from each year, starting in 2010. The last, eleventh picture was taken 16 September 2020 and shows the Kick-Off meeting of EHRI's third project phase.
The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure celebrated its 10 year anniversary in November 2020, a remarkable achievement for a project that started with a lifespan of 4 years - and that is now growing into a permanent infrastructure. To mark the occasion, we asked some prominent people who have been involved with EHRI and supported the project over the decade for a statement on EHRI and/or Holocaust Studies.