4-5 September 2018 I Location: King’s College London

Building on successful past collaborations, the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe (RFHE) and the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) are pleased to announce their joint 2018 Digital Humanities Interdisciplinary Methods Workshop on Jewish Heritage Records and Digital Humanities. The workshop, which will take place on 4-5 September 2018 at King’s College London in the Department of Digital Humanities, aims to expose early career scholars and heritage professionals to a range of digital techniques that might be applied both within the field of academic Jewish Studies and within memory institutions managing Jewish heritage records. The workshop will introduce participants to digital tools and methods that may help them to structure, present and gain insights from their data.

Documents as Primary Sources with Potential for Holocaust Research

November, 19-21 2018 (subject to reaction on CfP) Location: International Tracing Service, Bad Arolsen, Germany

This workshop will focus on collections of person-related records such as registries, forms, applications documents from before and after the Holocaust. Those are seen as a specific type of primary source (similar to photos, videos, etc.), unique in their potential for Holocaust research and as an example for the challenges of improving archival access. The aim is to discuss best practises in dealing with such sources from the archival and scholarly perspective as well as the perspective of information sciences.

From the Living Room to the World-Wide Web: Documenting, Uploading and Utilizing Holocaust Testimonies in the Digital Age

11-15 November 2018 I Location: Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel

We would like to invite those working in archives and those working with Holocaust Testimonies (survivor, rescuer, bystander as well as perpetrator testimonies) to submit their applications for the international EHRI seminar: From the Living Room to the World-Wide Web: Documenting, Uploading and Utilizing Holocaust Testimonies in the Digital Age to be held at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, 11-15 November 2018.

3-7 September 2018. Location: Central European University, Budapest

Deadline for Applications: 15 May 2018

We invite applications for the international EHRI-Seminar Researching and Remembering the Holocaust in Central Europe – New Sources, Methods and Approaches, held in Budapest, Hungary, from 3^rd until 7^th September 2018. The Seminar is organized by EHRI partners the Center for Holocaust-Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History (Munich) in cooperation with the Polish Center for Holocaust Research (Warsaw) and the Department of Gender Studies of Central European University (Budapest).

The Elie Wiesel Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania (INSHR-EW) recently organized the "Borderlands: Archives, Research and Education" workshop (programme) in the framework of European Holocaust Research Infrastructure project.

Deadline for applications: 31 May 2018

The EHRI (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure) Project offers places in an interactive Online Course on “The Holocaust through the Perspective of Primary Sources” designed by EHRI-Partner Yad Vashem. Two rounds of the course are scheduled to take place in the coming months. With original documents and interviews with leading historians, it offers a comprehensive insight into various primary sources essential for Holocaust research.

EHRI partner The Wiener Library, based in London, is seeking a proactive Reader Services Librarian to join the Collections Team. For someone with an interest in User Experience (UX) this is an exciting opportunity to positively change the way the reading room operations support access to Britain’s foremost collection regarding the Holocaust, its causes and consequences.

The Department of Digital Humanities of King's College London is seeking a Research Associate to contribute to the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), a major EU-funded research infrastructure project. 

The successful candidate for this position will be a researcher with experience in digital approaches to historical research and/or archives. She/he will have excellent written and oral communication skills, and be able to write high quality project deliverables and reports.

In 2015, the Foundation Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center CDEC in Milan joined the EHRI project and became involved in no less than five key areas: Dissemination and Communication (Work Package 2), Expanding and Keeping (WP3), Coordination with other Research Infrastructures (WP6), Data Identification and Integration (WP9), and Users and Standards (WP11).

In November 2017, the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum - EHRI’s partner in Lithuania - opened a new branch devoted to the internationally renowned painter Samuel Bak, born in Vilnius in 1933. It is the first museum in the world devoted solely to the art of this famous Litvak artist.