This EHRI workshop will focus on the information policy required in a digitally joined-up world and is intended for people responsible for the information strategy at archives, museums, libraries and other institutions that hold collections. It is not a technical workshop. The objective of the workshop is to improve the collaboration between the collection holding institutions, IT-service providers and Information Customers, such as EHRI.
The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University is pleased to announce the 2015 Sharon Abramson Research Grant competition.
Five grants of up to $4,000 each will be awarded to support research related to the Holocaust of European Jewry. Graduate students in Ph.D. programs who have completed their qualifying exams and university/college faculty who teach about the Holocaust are eligible for this grant.
Abstracts are available here: http://holocaustgenocidepopularculture.wordpress.com/call-for-papers-research-forum/
The forum will take place online.
We would like to cordially invite you to the workshop Overcoming the Gap: Eastern Perspectives on EHRI, hosted by the EHRI partner Holocaust Memorial Center. The workshop will offer an overview on EHRI's work and progress, featuring speakers from key areas of the collaboration's development. Besides, the workshop focuses on the Eastern expansion of EHRI, involving colleagues representing leading institutions in the field from Slovakia, Romania and Hungary.
The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University is pleased to invite applications for fellowships to participate in the 20th annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, from June 21 to July 3, 2015, at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
The Leo Baeck Institute London is pleased to offer a 3-year John A. S. Grenville studentship for an outstanding doctoral candidate wishing to pursue a research project in the field of German Jewish history and culture with a focus on the late 19th and 20th centuries. Applications are invited from current and prospective graduates with an excellent academic track record.
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites applications from senior scholars for its 2015-2016 Center Research Fellow. The fellowship provides $30,000 support and will be awarded to an outstanding candidate from any discipline, who will advance genocide research through the use of the Visual History Archive (VHA) of the USC Shoah Foundation and other USC resources.
Today is the official launch of the digital Holocaust Theater Archive, a website containing plays from 1933 to the present that has user specific informative entries and is intended for students, scholars, theater artists, teachers and the general public. This growing catalog of over 550 titles is publicly accessible and housed on line at the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies at the University of Miami.
Christine Kausch from Germany was an EHRI fellow at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam in September 2014. She used her fellowship to do research for her PhD-thesis, which deals with Jewish refugees from Germany who came to the Netherlands in the 1930s. Her research focuses especially on aspects of the refugees’ daily life in the years 1933-1945.
The gas chambers of the Sobibor death camp in Poland, destroyed by the Nazis after the 1943 prisoner uprising, have been unearthed by an archaeological expedition.