One of EHRI's partners in the UK, The Wiener Library, is looking for a Head of Collections. The Wiener Library is located in London and is Britain’s largest archive on the Holocaust and Nazi era and modern genocide. Founded in 1933 in Amsterdam the Library’s holdings span all types of resources, focusing on the Holocaust, its causes and consequences. The collections are continuing to grow through donations and acquisitions.

The Jewish Museum of Greece (JMG) was founded in 1977 with a mission to collect, study, preserve and exhibit the artifacts that reflect the life, customs, history and traditions of the Greek Jews. The Museum’s unique collection includes more than 10,000 rare artifacts of great historical significance, and is continuously enriched and updated. The Museum building houses its rich collection and visitor services organized in permanent exhibition areas with thematic modular exhibits, an art gallery, a periodic exhibition space, a research library, a space for educational programmes, a photo archive and laboratory and a preventive conservation laboratory.

Organizer: Polish Center for Holocaust Research of the institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Warsaw, 24-29 September 2017

For six days, fifteen researchers from eight countries (Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Israel, United Kingdom, USA and Poland) had an opportunity to discover and discuss materials from Polish archives which can be useful for scholars interested in the topic of the fate of Jews during the Second World War. The main goal of the seminar was to bring together researchers interested in working with "Polish" sources for Holocaust research, from widely known documents, diaries and testimonies to recently opened archives like post-war investigation files.

The JDC Archives is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications for its 2018 fellowship program. In 2018, 5 fellowships will be awarded to senior scholars, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and independent researchers to conduct research in the JDC Archives, either in New York or in Jerusalem. Research topics in the fields of twentieth century Jewish history, modern history, social welfare, migration, and humanitarian assistance will be considered, as well as other areas of academic research covered in the JDC archival collections.

Are you a Holocaust researcher, curator or archivist? Or a digital humanist? Apply for an EHRI Fellowship! The next evaluation cut-off date is 31 December 2017.

The EHRI fellowships are intended to support and stimulate Holocaust research by facilitating international access to key archives and collections related to the Holocaust as well as archival and digital humanities knowhow.

In the night of 9th to 10th November 1938, paramilitary groups employed by National socialists in Germany carried out attacks on synagogues, buildings and stores owned by Jews. The German authorities did not intervene and this so-called November Pogrom (also known as Kristallnacht) generated shock and empathy in neighbouring countries. In Britain, the immediate aftermath of the November Pogrom led to two centrally orchestrated rescue operations. The Central British Fund for German Jewry (now World Jewish Relief) convinced the British government to rescue Jews from greater Germany.

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The Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History will be offering grants for research stays at the Center in Munich during 2018.

In late August, the newest addition to the EHRI Online Courses was released. The Course “Modern Diplomatics of the Holocaust” was developed by EHRI-Partner Bundesarchiv with support of the Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) and offers an in depth introduction on how to read, contextualize and interpret German files which are relevant for Holocaust research.

The latest EHRI Document Blog contribution by Daniela Bartáková, who works for the Jewish Museum in Prague, focuses on the remnants of the registration card file from the territory of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia. This protectorate was established by Nazi Germany following the occupation of Czechoslovakia.

From 13 until 15 September 2017, EHRI partner the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris hosted the annual International Memorial’s Database Conference. 41 archivists and research staff members from 21 collection holding institutes and memorial sites, spread across Germany, Poland, Austria, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Israel and the United States, gathered to share information on their ongoing and completed data(base) projects.