Leah Sidebotham is part of the Engagement Team at The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide in London. She has been in charge of EHRI's Facebook and Twitter pages in Work Package 2 on Communication and will later this year start as Digital Asset Manager as part of the more technical Work Packages 10 and 13.

On 15–16 November in Brussels, the European Commission, Directorate-General Research and Innovation, organized the “2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage”, The Fair of European Innovators in Cultural Heritage. Some thirty innovative European research projects were represented (please see here for the full list).

EHRI Conference "Research and Preservation of the Secret Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto", Warsaw, 8 December 2018

Holocaust Studies in the Digital Age. What’s New?

Date: Tuesday, 2 July 2019

Location: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Deadline for proposals: 9 February 2019. THIS CALL IS NOW CLOSED!

The newest EHRI Document Blog post is based on the key publication and original sources of one of the major eyewitness chroniclers of the Holocaust in Hungary. Edited by Nina Munk, Ferenc Laczó and László Csősz, the blog post presents excerpts culled from the new critical edition of Ernő Munkácsi’s How It Happened: Documenting the Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry, and from the book’s introduction by Ferenc Laczó.

"It happened here!" Digital and shared: Holocaust history in public space

1-2 April 2019 | Location: Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Vienna, Austria

Deadline for applications: 31 January 2019

POLIN Museum (August 7-9, 2019)

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 January 2, 2019 for the Fall 2019 - Summer 2020 Funding Year. Maximum Award Amount: $20,000 per Year. 

The Jewish Museum of Greece, Athens, 18-19 October 2018

EHRI Seminar Readings of the Visual. Holocaust Photography and Education in the Digital Era

Οn 18-19 October 2018, the Jewish Museum of Greece and EHRI organized an international workshop on “Readings of the Visual. Holocaust Photography and Education in the Digital Era” at the Netherlands Institute at Athens.

EHRI Seminar "From the Living Room to the World-Wide Web: Documenting, Uploading and Utilizing Holocaust Testimonies in the Digital Age" Jerusalem, 11-15 November, 2018

Yad Vashem hosted a unique and innovative EHRI seminar dealing with the challenges involved in collecting, preserving, accessing and using testimonies of Holocaust survivors in the digital age.