An Online Source Edition on Everyday Life of Occupied Societies during the Second World War

EHRI Webinar | 20 March 2024 | 3:00 PM CET | On Zoom

During the Second World War, approximately 230 million people in 27 countries lived under German occupation. Despite these high numbers, the German public knows very little about the experiences of the occupied societies throughout Europe. The Online Portal “Societies under German Occupation” ties in here and provides sources on everyday life of occupied societies during the Second World War, with a specific focus on dealing with hunger and scarcity.

Using Digital Tools and Methods to Facilitate Holocaust Research

By Florine Miez, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute

The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) hosted the EHRI Methodology Seminar “What’s New in Austrian Holocaust research? Digital Tools & Methods” from January 16-18, 2024. The participants came to the VWI from Israel, USA, Sweden, Romania, the Czech Republic and also Vienna to spend three days learning about the latest developments in Austrian Holocaust research and new methods.

A Story That Is Still Unfolding

Visar Malaj's blogpost focuses on documents found in the collection of the EHRI partner Fondazione Centro Di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea (CDEC) in Milan during his Conny Kristel Fellowship for his research on the fate of local and foreign Jews in Albania during the

Listening to an episode of the EHRI Podcast Series For the Living and the Dead. Traces of the Holocaust could be a quiet and meaningful way to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January.  

The second season has six episodes that you can tune into here. Visit the EHRI Podcast Homepage for all episodes.

#ProtectTheFacts is an international initiative of the Council of Europe, European Commission, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the United Nations, and UNESCO. 

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EHRI Releases Massive Open Online Course

“It Must All be Recorded Without a Single Fact Left Out” - The Holocaust through the Perspective of Primary Sources

On the occasion of the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) launches its first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) “‘It Must All be Recorded Without a Single Fact Left Out’ - The Holocaust through the Perspective of Primary Sources”, created by our EHRI-Partner Yad Vashem. The MOOC discusses the critical examination of the sources presented and provides methodological guidance as well as hands-on tools for their use. It features interviews with leading scholars and presents various primary sources - photographs, diaries, bureaucratic documents, letters, and testimonies - essential for Holocaust research.

Watch a short intro to the MOOC:

Holocaust Monuments and Memorials in Central Europe

Prague, Academic Conference Center | 17-8 September 2024 | Deadline for Submission: 31 May 2024

This conference is organized by the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the National Heritage Institute (Czech Republic) and the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel).

This international conference will focus on the expert evaluation of the topic of Holocaust monuments and memorials in Central Europe.

24 May 2024 | Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London | Deadline for applications: 1 March 2024 

The University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, the University of Oxford's Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and the Institute of Historical Research invite applications for a one-day workshop on Mapping the Holocaust.

Deadline for Applications: 4 February 2024

The Alfred Landecker Foundation is pleased to invite applications from highly qualified postdocs in the humanities and social sciences, for a full-time lecturer program set to begin on October 1, 2024. Up to four university lectureships will each run for five years. The Alfred Landecker Foundation’s Academic Council is leading the selection process.

Reading the Bible After the Holocaust

May 28-31, 2024 | US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C., US | Deadline for applications: 15 March 2024

The 2024 Annual Faculty Seminar on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust will examine the profound and painful questions the Holocaust and its aftermath raise for Jews and Christians in regard to their texts and traditions.