By Florine Miez and Fabio Rovigo, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI)

The full-day workshop "EHRI and Micro-Archives in Austria" took place at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies on 4 March 2024.

The Institute presented EHRI's plans to improve support for micro-archives and invited Austrian micro-archive owners and experts to discuss the opportunities and challenges of collaboration.In the keynote speech by Franziska Schubert (Arolsen Archives), the importance of EHRI and its projects for micro-archives was explained.

Step 1 Application to Become an ERIC Approved

On 27 February 2024, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) started its Implementation Phase (IP) project, which will lead EHRI to  become a permanent organisation for the support of Holocaust research in Europe.

Last month, EHRI has launched a new series of survivors’ testimonies recorded before 1960. The second EHRI Online Edition, the Early Holocaust Testimony, has been expanded by these unique documents written in the Yiddish language. Users can follow both versions – the nowadays rarely used and studied Yiddish original and the English translation – to explore the early memories of the Holocaust across Europe, like in this testimony of a 15-year-old Jewish boy describing the German invasion of Wyszków:

Date: 18 September 2024 - 19 September 2024, 10:00AM - 6:00PM GMT | Location: Bedford Room, G37, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London, UK | Deadline: 22 March 2024

Bestselling novels such as Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated (2002, film adaptation 2005), Jonathan Littell’s Les Bienveillantes (2006, The Kindly Ones, 2009) and Katja Petrowskaja’s Vielleicht Esther (2014, Maybe Esther, 2018) have increased public and scholarly discussion of Holocaust mass shootings and their remembrance, yet remain notable exceptions to an overall scarcity of representations of these atrocities. For the most part, literary, cinematic and artistic depictions of mass shootings have been belated, schematic and often at the margins of works dealing with other themes or with other facets of the Holocaust. While specific events, such as the Babi Jar massacre of September 1941, have found their place in memory and art, many more events are still being recovered for commemoration. 

Organised by Centrum für Jüdische Studien, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz; Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien (VWI) | 11-12 December 2023 | Graz Austria

by Florine Miez, Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien

From the beginning, writing about the Holocaust has been shaped by considerations of form, questions of different media and genres as well as the limits of language. This second EHRI-AT Conference brought together debates about ego-documents and reflections on Holocaust literature and asked about the challenges that these different texts/materials pose for archives, edition projects as well as in the field of Holocaust education.

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

April 9^th, 2024 at 2:30 - 3:30 PM CET

The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) and partner Yad Vashem invite you to a unique online lecture, which will discuss and dissect ongoing and new issues within the world of Holocaust photography collections. 

The lecture is aimed at (photo) archivists, historians or researchers working with photographs.

July 29-Aug 2, 2024 | Washington D.C., US | Applications due: March 31, 2024

New Methods for Archival Research

This in-person workshop will allow participants to explore a recently developed research guide that highlights the diversity and scope of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s (USHMM) archival collections that relate to religion (broadly defined). 

14 March, 9:30 AM - 5 PM CET | Het Trippenhuis, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

The archaeological research at the site of the former Nazi extermination Camp Sobibor, which began in 2000 and continued until 2020, represents the most extensive archaeological excavations to have been held at a Holocaust site. For this symposium, EHRI coordinator NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies is bringing together an international group of interdisciplinary scholars to shed light on archaeological research on Sobibor and its broader context from multiple perspectives.

From Urban Legend to Documented Fact: The History and Memory of the Jewish Ghetto and the Holocaust in Kherson

In this new EHRI Document Blogpost, Yurii Kaparulin traces the history of the Kherson ghetto and the mass murders, as well as the investigation of the crimes after the liberation. It also describes the efforts made in recent years to document and commemorate the victims of the Nazi regime in Kherson.

European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) Workshop

Organized by the German Federal Archives in cooperation with the Jewish Community of Novi Sad |Date: May 28-30, 2024 |  Venue: Jewish Community Novi Sad, Serbia (Jevrejska 11, 21 000 Novi Sad) | Application Deadline (EXTENDED): 15 April 2024

I. Workshop description

The Federal Archives is partner in the transnational project EHRI (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure) funded by the European Union under the European scheme Horizon2020.