The latest contribution to the EHRI Document Blog was written by Rebecca Dillmeier from USHMM. The post reports on an ongoing crowdsourcing project that addresses the search and discoverability challenges of large oral history collections. The post gives an insight into the experiences and challenges of using crowdsourcing for oral history transcripts to increase access to this rich resource.

EHRI partner the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) organises a Simon Wiesenthal Lecture:

Rebecca Jinks:  Representing Genocide: The Holocaust as Paradigm?

15 February 2018, 6.30 pm 

Dachfoyer des Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchivs, 1010 Wien, Minoritenplatz 1

The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure invites you to participate in a web survey aimed at institutions that hold Holocaust-related archival collections. The survey aims to investigate the impact that digital approaches have on research and archiving. In particular, we want to understand the effects that EHRI has on collection holding institutions and archival work practices.

I joined the EHRI project in September 2016, just after finishing my Advanced Master’s program. I am based at the Belgian State Archives I CegeSoma (Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Society) in Brussels.

January 27 is Holocaust Memorial Day, or International Holocaust Remembrance Day: An annual International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. It was designated by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 60/7 on 1 November 2005. It marks the anniversary of the liberation of concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on 27 January 1945.

The newest EHRI Document Blog post commemorates the 69th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide by the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) on 9 December 1948.

Extended deadline: 12 January 2018!

International Workshop within the Framework of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), supported by the European Commission

Date and location: 6-7 March 2018, at the “Elie Wiesel” National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania, Bucharest, Romania

EHRI Workshop “Engaging New Generations. The Holocaust and Knowledge Dissemination in the Digital Age” - Amsterdam, 9 November 2017

On November 9, the EHRI Workshop “Engaging New Generations” was held at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. More than 30 participants from Europe, Israel and the USA discussed the role that digital media can, or should play in addressing new generations and the way they relate to the Holocaust.

The latest blog post is dedicated to the memory of tens of thousands of Hungarian Jewish men and women, dragged off for slave labour by the Nazi ally Arrow Cross government in November 1944.