Together with the Centre de Recherches Historiques (EHESS) and the Institut de Sciences Sociales du Politique (Université Paris Nanterre-ENS Paris Saclay-CNRS), the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention is organizing an international conference: "Home as a place for anti-Jewish persecution in European cities, 1933-1945. Crossing urban social history and history of the Holocaust". The conference will be held at the American University of Paris on January 11th-12th 2018.

Deadline July 3rd, 2017

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is pleased to announce the 2018 JDC Archives Documentary Film Grant. The JDC Archives will select one film, which will be awarded a grant of $10,000. Eligible films will focus on twentieth century Jewish history, humanitarian assistance, and related topics. Topics can include issues, events and personalities related to overseas Jewish communities during the last century. Films that utilize the JDC archival collections will be given higher consideration.

International Workshop within the Framework of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure

Thursday, 9 November 2017

Location: NIOD, Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam

Young people often combine a great interest in the Holocaust with a low level of knowledge. That, at least, was the outcome of a recent digital survey that was conducted by EHRI with respondents from a variety of ages, education levels and nationalities. For these same young people, the Internet is the first place they turn to when searching for information. As a result, digital media are crucial when developing tools to address new generations and the way they relate to the Holocaust.

Daniel Cesarani works in the Visitor Services Team and Collections Department of The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide in London’s Russell Square.

I have been working with EHRI since soon after I joined the Wiener Library around a year and a half ago. With a strong family connection to Holocaust studies I wanted to work in a field that could support academics working in the field and increase my experience in the subject at the same time. The Wiener Library gave me both opportunities and EHRI has proven to be a very welcome addition to my responsibilities here. At The Wiener Library I am in charge of the Periodicals Collection as well as responding to question from our readers via the Wiener Library Contact page.

Article by Kylie Thomas

The image of a young boy standing in the street in Amsterdam during the Second World War, is perhaps the most famous of Emmy Andriesse’s images that portray the terrible effects of war and starvation on the Dutch population. The child’s small somber face can be seen from the side, the light illuminating his fragile ear and his hair which seems to be standing up around his head from the cold. His thin hands are holding a large dark metal pot, a visual metonym for his empty stomach. He is dressed in an over-sized coat which covers his emaciated body up to his waist. Beneath his coat are short pants that end at his knees and his bare legs protrude below and hardly seem strong enough to bear his weight. His shoes also appear to be too large and, in spite of the cold, he is not wearing socks. The child is shown at the centre of the image and the gaze of the viewer is drawn to his face and to the quiet suffering his expression transmits. He is standing still in the frame and all the senseless suffering of war seems to be concentrated in his small body and seems to be bearing down upon him, making him seem even smaller.

The Jewish Museum in Prague was established in 1906 and holds one of the most extensive collections of Judaica in the world, with as many as 40,000 items and 100,000 books from Bohemia and Moravia. It is consistently the most visited museum in the Czech republic. In addition to its permanent and temporary exhibitions, the museum focuses on organising various cultural and educational events related to the Jewish history and life. Another important focus of the museum is on the period of modern Jewish history, in particular the history and fate of Jews in the 20^th century. This area of interest is mainly dealt with by the museum's Shoah History Department, Archives, Photo Archive and Department for Education and Culture.

The Wiener Library is pleased to announce that from Friday 21 April 2017 they will be offering researchers onsite access to the archive of the UN War Crimes Commission (UNWCC).

How did people search for their displaced and deported family members after WWII? In this new EHRI blog post, Anna Rosner from the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw examines how the Central Committee for the Polish Jews registered Holocaust survivors between 1944 and 1947 - a process that was mainly used to help reunite families in the years immediately following the establishing of the Committee. 

Special EHRI-inspired issue of Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History (Journal of Fondazione CDEC www.quest-cdecjournal.it) to be published in June 2018.
Edited by Laura Brazzo (Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea, Milan) and Reto Speck (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam and King’s College London).

International Workshop within the Framework of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure

23-25 October 2017.

Location: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, USA

Call for Proposals for an international EHRI workshop on authenticating Holocaust documentation to be held at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, on October 23–25, 2017.