Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority, was established by the Israeli Parliament in 1953. Located on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem, Yad Vashem is dedicated to Holocaust remembrance, documentation, research and education.
The Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies invite applications for an interdisciplinary regional conference on the Holocaust in Southeastern Europe. The conference will be held May 25–26, 2015 in Bucharest.
We would like to invite you to participate in the international workshop on Holocaust Art to be held at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem on 9-11 February, 2015.
By his very function, the artist is the witness of freedom…. By his function he is engaged in the density of history, where man’s very flesh stifles.
Albert Camus, "The Artist as Witness of Freedom: The Independent Mind in an Age of Ideologies", Commentary Magazine, January 1949.
László Csősz, Hungarian National Archives
The last event in the series of international workshops to disseminate the achievements of the EHRI project took place in the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest on November 6, 2014. The workshop Overcoming the Gap: Eastern Perspectives on EHRI was held in cooperation with the NIOD Amsterdam and the Hungarian National Archives.
The EHRI project is currently in its final phase, and all hands are on deck to get our work finished in time for the Presentation of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure on 26 March 2015 in Berlin.
Successfully finishing our current work is of course vitally important. Nevertheless, we have recently also put much effort into ensuring that EHRI has a future well beyond March 2015.
I have been working at the Wiener Library since June 2013 as the Library's Visitor Services and have worked with Petra Drenth and Reto Speck on the EHRI newsletter for around the same period.
On the 22nd of October 2014, Judith Levin and Veerle Vanden Daelen presented the current working version of the EHRI portal to a group of researchers for the first time. The participants of the EHRI workshop on Early Attempts at the Historical Documentation of the Holocaust (Prague, 20-23 October 2014) formed this first group of pioneers. They were able to have a look at the EHRI directory of over 1,850 repositories holding Holocaust-related archival sources, and some 3,000 manually added collection descriptions. Needless to say, the bulk of the collection descriptions will only become visible in a later stage, when the IT-imported information will be added to this work-in-progress. Nevertheless, EHRI already wanted to collect feedback on what is available and hear what the target audience’s first impressions were.
The EHRI workshop Early Attempts at the Historical Documentation of the Holocaust was organised by the Jewish Museum in Prague, on October 21-23, 2014. It brought together experts from 13 countries to discuss and present their research on the early documentation of the Holocaust during and after WWII. The workshop extended the first EHRI workshop devoted to the early documentation of the Holocaust which was held in Budapest in 2012.
The international EHRI-Workshop, Names of Shoah Victims: From scattered Sources to Individual Personal Stories was held at EHRI partner Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in cooperation with Yad Vashem from October 20-21. The participants, from all over Europe and the US, 27 representatives of leading Holocaust research institutions from 12 different countries as well as various guest auditors, gathered at the Information Centre at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
Although Holocaust Studies is a thriving research area, boasting many important recent publications and projects, a truly broad, interdisciplinary perspective is still felt to be lacking. Hence, this conference is meant as an opportunity to look together at the theme of the Shoah in as diverse and wide a context as possible.