June 10-11, 2024 | Location: Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2024 

First international seminar of the NWO project The Holocaust in “the Provinces”: Local Dynamics in the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands (1925-1950)

The Holocaust is one of the best researched major episodes of mass destruction in modern Western history. Whereas the scholarship initially merely focused on German policy makers and decision takers, perceiving the Holocaust as a story of Nazi perpetrators and Jewish victims, today there is general agreement that the genocide should (also) be studied in its local, communal embedding.

February 20-22, 2024 | Location: Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania, Bucharest, Romania

Application Deadline: 8 December 2023

We are pleased to announce the EHRI Seminar on Holocaust Research in Romania, presented as part of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) project, with support from the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program. This seminar is jointly organized by the Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, both part of the EHRI Consortium.

The latest EHRI Document Blogpost, by Svetlana Suveica, follows the story of a trial that began on 29 January 1945, after gravestones from Jewish cemeteries in Odessa had been removed and transported to Bucharest during the Romanian occupation in the Second World War.

The Belgian State Archives is a federal scientific institution that is part of the Federal Science Policy (BELSPO). The institution consists of the General State Archives in Brussels, eighteen branches of the State Archives spread throughout the country and the Study and Documentation Centre on War and Contemporary Society (CegeSoma) in Brussels.

Digital Mapping - Digital Memory

February 7, 2024 | 3.00 PM CET on Zoom

This webinar was first scheduled for 14 December 2023, but was postponed due to illness. 7 February 2024 is the new date.

The Digital Memory Landscape Austria (DERLA) is a documentation and education project. It documents the places and signs of remembrance of the victims and places of terror of National Socialism in Austria and aims at a critical examination of National Socialism and fascism and the remembrance of them. The interdisciplinary cooperation project also aims to develop new concepts for digital remembrance education.

The expulsion and silencing of critical voices from Eastern Europe due to war and authoritarianism threaten to erode European knowledge communities in ways not seen since the academic emigrations of 1917 and 1933. In response to this fundamental threat to transnational knowledge building, the University of New Europe (UNE) is offering a mentoring programme for scholars, students, and cultural workers at risk.

International Conference | 18 June 2024 | Warsaw, Poland | Submission Deadline: 7 January 2024

The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure invites proposals for papers and interactive presentations at its international conference for archivists and researchers evaluating Holocaust-related research in the digital age, the current state of documentation and study of the Holocaust, and the role that EHRI plays in supporting and advancing these areas.

"I was born in the Soviet Ukraine. According to the memory politics of this state, we were not told anything about the Holocaust as children, and for a long time this topic was terra incognita for me. During school lessons about World War II, which was then called the “Great Fatherland War,” we heard about the victorious heroism of Soviet soldiers and the Red Army. But the voices of the victims sounded only faint and muffled—if they were heard at all."

In the fall of 2023, EHRI released the first episode of its second EHRI podcast season, A Sunflower for Simon. The EHRI Podcast For the Living and the Dead. Traces of the Holocaust was launched in September 2022 and highlights personal stories from the Holocaust through objects, now found in museums or (personal and private) archives across Europe and beyond. Researchers and archivists from across the EHRI network highlight the importance of documenting the Holocaust through objects and the need to protect and care for these objects.

In the second season, we hear about sunflowers sent to Simon Wiesenthal;  tefillin prayer cubes that belonged to a Polish Jewish family who survived in Siberia; a paper heart with messages of gratitude in Sweden; a letter with a desperate call for help from Jews imprisoned in the Kaufering complex; a seal made out of linoleum to forge life-saving documents in Hungary; and a tiny notebook containing notes of a 12-year old Jewish girl from Lithuania who lost almost all of her family. Listen to the latest season of For the Living and the Dead. Traces of the Holocaust.

EHRI has been very fortunate to be able to count on the expertise, dedication and commitment of our colleagues at Yad Vashem since its very beginning, and over the years we have made many new friends in Israel. We have been able to enjoy the generous hospitality offered by our Israeli colleagues on countless occasions, most recently during this year’s EHRI-3 General Partner Meeting in Jerusalem.

We also know that many members of the EHRI consortium have family, relatives and friends in the region and that many are mourning, or concerned about the safety of, their loved ones.