In its new phase, the EHRI project has 23 partners, of which 11 are new. In this article, one new partner, the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum (VGSJM) from Lithuania, introduces itself.

The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum (VGSJM) is a national institution under the Ministry of Culture of Lithuania that collects, conserves, investigates, restores and exhibits the historical, material and spiritual heritage of Lithuanian Jews, traditional and modern Jewish objects of art and documents and objects connected with the Holocaust.

Simon Wiesenthal Conference 2015

Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI)

Vienna, 30 November 2015 – 2 December 2015

Call for Papers

Studies of modern antisemitism have focused primarily on Germany, as both the country where the phenomenon is seen to have originated and where it reached its genocidal culmination in the Holocaust.

A consortium of seven European archive and research institutes, all involved in EHRI, received a grant from the Claims Conference for the two-year digitization project Jewish Council Archives in Europe. The project brings important – and in some cases still unexploited – archival collections on Jewish Councils and Associations from Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Poland, Israel and Netherland together. This project will be carried out in close cooperation with the EHRI-project.

EHRI is looking for Holocaust researchers, digital humanists and archivists

EHRI started its second phase in May 2015. In this new phase EHRI will sustain and expand its current work. More Holocaust institutions will be invited to participate and connect their collections in the EHRI portal, and new research tools will be implemented. These goals can only be reached in close cooperation with Holocaust researchers, digital humanists and archivists. For this reason the EHRI-project would like to invite interested holocaust researchers, digital humanists and archivists to participate in our User Feedback Group.

Accepting applications for the 2016–2017 fellowship competition: September 1, 2015–November 30, 2015.

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies awards fellowships on a competitive basis to support significant research and writing about the Holocaust. The Mandel Center welcomes proposals from scholars in all academic disciplines, including but not limited to history, political science, literature, Jewish studies, philosophy, religion, sociology, anthropology, comparative genocide studies, and law.

PhD and Post Doctoral Candidates conducting Research on the Holocaust.  The Maximum Award Amount is $20,000 Per Year.

The Saul Kagan Claims Conference Fellowship for Advanced Shoah Studies aims to strengthen Shoah studies and Holocaust memory throughout the world. Our mission is to support the advanced study of the fate of Jews who were systematically targeted for destruction or persecution by the Nazis and their allies between 1933 and 1945, as well as immediate post-war events.  

The PARTHENOS project has been awarded €12 million over four years by the EU to support and build on the efforts of a range of EU projects in the domain of cultural heritage, digital humanities, linguistics, history and archaeology. EHRI is one of the projects that, led by its coordinator NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, takes part in PARTHENOS. Within PARTHENOS, EHRI will be involved in communication, standardization of requirements and trans-national access.

The aim of the EHRI research guides is to create comprehensive, innovative and easy to use guides through the dispersed and fragmented archival material and to empower further research. Using innovative methods and technologies, the research guides virtually link together data from different archives in different countries, which use varying methods of archival description and digital archival systems.

“Between Resistance and Collaboration"

Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France.

May 24th until May 30th 2016

Deadline is October 15, 2015

http://workshopnscampsandexterminationsites.com

workshopnscamps@gmail.com

30 May – 1 June 2016

Joint event organised by Max Mannheimer Studienzentrum (MMSZ), Dachau, the International Tracing Service (ITS), Bad Arolsen with consultance by the Holocaust Studies Program of the Western Galilee College, Akko, Israel