Digital Holocaust Archives | Colleagues from international and local archive projects discuss how digital technologies are shaping the future of Holocaust research.

Hosted by Digital Holocaust Memory and the Sussex Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies | Thursday 1st October, 4-6pm CET

Digital technologies have played a significant role in Holocaust research archives in recent years, notably the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure and the Arolsen Archives’s International Tracing Service – two major projects.

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) is offering a limited number of fellowships for Ph.D. and Post Doctoral Candidates Conducting Research on the Holocaust. The application deadline is December 21, 2020* for the Fall 2021 - Summer 2022 Funding Year.

Maximum Award Amount: $25,000 Per Year

The Saul Kagan Claims Conference Fellowship for Advanced Shoah Studies aims to strengthen Holocaust studies and Shoah memory throughout the world. Our mission is to support the advanced study of the fate of Jews who were systematically targeted for destruction or persecution by the Nazis and their allies between 1933 and 1945, as well as immediate post-war events.  

An online discussion on the particularities and challenges of digital archives and collections holding resources on the turbulent 1940s.

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In the context of the Greek Infrastructure for Digital Arts, Humanities and Language Research and Innovation, APOLLONIS, a designated Task Force led by DCU/IMSI/ATHENA R.C. focuses on identifying and supporting the workflows that researchers need to follow to perform specific research while jointly accessing disparate archives.

The latest EHRI blogpost describes the process of building a Visual Search tool by the Fortunoff Video Archive For Holocaust Testimonies and the Yale Digital Humanities Lab (DHLab) in order to provide a simple overview of the Fortunoff Archive’s collection.

23-24 November 2020 | Yad Vashem, Jerusalem

EHRI partner Yad Vashem would like to invite you to participate in a virtual international workshop on the Changing Relationship between the Archivist and the User, organized by Yad Vashem – the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, with the support and cooperation of EVZ – the Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future", on 23-24 November 2020.

EHRI partner since 2010, the German Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History will be offering grants for research stays at the Center in Munich during 2021.

The European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2021 are open for submissions. Now is the chance for Europe’s most inspiring architects, craftsmen, cultural heritage experts, professionals, volunteers, public and private institutions, and local communities to be recognised for their achievements!

Deadline for Proposals: 15 September 2020

EHRI partner, the Polish Center for Holocaust Research call for articles for volume 17 of the Holocaust. Studies and Materials annual (2021), devoted to various forms of the Holocaust’s presence in public space. This means not only the Holocaust history or ways of its commemoration, but also its ideologization and instrumentalization for political purposes, as well as broadly-defined representations of the Holocaust experience in art, film, and literature, the exhibition strategies in museums and commemorative practices in public space, and, last but not least, the Holocaust’s presence in the new media, chiefly on the Internet (both educational websites, websites of official research or museum institutions, social media, and initiatives undertaken by private individuals and social organizations).

Application deadline: November 9, 2020

The Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (The Claims Conference) provides grant funds to European universities for the purposes of teaching Holocaust courses for one year and is currently seeking universities that are interested in creating a partnership for the 2021-2022 academic year.

EHRI partner the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw, has relaunched the thoroughly improved Internet Database of the Warsaw Ghetto and ‘Aryan’ Side, supplemented with a few dozen thousand new records and an interactive map and an atlas of the ghetto.