Third international multidisciplinary conference to be held at the University of Salzburg, Austria, on 13-15 July 2016.

Organized by the University of Salzburg and the University of Wolverhampton, in association with the UN Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict.

New EHRI Fellowship Programme also invites archivists and curators

On Thursday 30 April 2015, the Vlaamse Vereniging voor Bibliotheek, Archief en Documentatie (VVBAD, the Flemish library and archives association), organised a symposium on Metadata Exchange. The VVBAD, founded in 1921 and representing approximately 3,500 information professionals, is a non-profit organization for professionals working in libraries, archives and documentation centres in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium.

The ZKS-TRAME Fellowship in Digital Humanities is funded by the Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation to foster advancement in humanities research and provide emerging digital scholars with an opportunity for growth - strongly based on their Humanities background - toward a professional development or pursuing careers in the academic and research sector within the DH field. The ZKS-TRAME Fellowship supports graduate students and PhDs in doing innovative work in the digital humanities at the SISMEL Digital and Multimedia Lab., in Florence.

The JDC (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) Archives is now one of EHRI’s cooperating institutions, joining other repositories such as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the State Archives of Belgium, the Hungarian Jewish Archives, and the German Bundesarchiv (read more).

The EHRI portal includes key information about all JDC Archives Holocaust-era collections, among them the Cyprus, Geneva, Istanbul, New York, Stockholm, and Warsaw collections.

The UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation urgently wants to hear from survivors and those affected by Nazi persecution who have never told their story but would like the opportunity to do so before it’s too late.

Sir Peter Bazalgette, the chair of the new UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation set up to deliver the recommendations of the Prime Minister’s Holocaust Commission, is appealing to individuals to come forward if they know of survivors who have never told their stories.

​Call for Papers and Panels

Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust XIV

The Holocaust in the 21st Century: Relevance and Challenges in the Digital Age

November 3-6, 2016, Claremont McKenna, California

The 14th biennial Lessons and Legacies Conference, sponsored by the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University and Claremont McKenna College, will consist of two plenary addresses, roundtables, multiple panels, workshops, and colloquia relating to recent issues and advances in scholarship on all aspects of Holocaust Studies.

Second Annual Conference of the British Association for Holocaust Studies

21-22 July 2015, University of Birmingham

2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the death marches, the liberation of Auschwitz and concentration camps in western Europe, the end of World War II, and early postwar trials including the First Bergen-Belsen Trial and the opening of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. This sequence of anniversaries is an appropriate time to reflect on 70 years of research, education, public commemoration, musealization and cultural production, paying particular attention to the British and European contexts.

“Jews in East Central Europe: History and Commemoration” is the 4th International Summer School organized jointly by the University of Szczecin and Charles University Prague. The sum­mer school is supported by the “Go East” Program of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and by the Czech-German Future Fund and will be held in cooperation with the Center for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder).

Date: May 25–26, 2015

Location: Athénée Palace Hilton, Episcopiei 1-3, Bucharest, Romania 010292

Cost: Free

This international conference brings together scholars to share emerging research on the Holocaust in the southeastern tier of Europe.

On 26 March, after 4 years of work, the project European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) presented its results. This presentation took place at the beautiful and befitting Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Berlin.

To honour the occasion, an interesting programme was put together, that mixed politicians with historians, researchers, archivists, and digital infrastructure experts. The 200 guests that were the audience mirrored this mix.

Read more (including photos and audio).

Go to the EHRI Portal