30 September – 2 October 2014, Munich

International Conference of the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute of Contemporary History, Munich, welcomes papers discussing the social and societal processes surrounding the Holocaust.

The Departments of English and German at King's College London are seeking well-qualified applicants for two fully-funded PhD scholarships attached to the European Research Council project "Beyond Enemy Lines:Literature and Film in the British and American Zones of Occupied Germany, 1945-1949". 

The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure invites applications to its two summer schools on Holocaust studies in 2014.

The summer schools are being funded by the European Union. The first EHRI summer school will be organised by Yad Vashem and the Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority, Jerusalem, Israel and will be between 24 April and 15 May 2014.

Advanced Teacher Seminar for Italian speaking teachers and educators, 4-8 December 2013

EHRI partner Mémorial de la Shoah organises an advanced seminar for Italian teachers and educators. Today 25 participants will arrive in Berlin where they will take part in a 5-day intensive course. Subjects range from developments of perpetrator images, German resistance, the Wannsee Conference, dealing with the History of Nazism in Germany and the deportation from Italy.

Please follow us on Twitter @EHRIproject and stay updated as the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure project enters its final year and we start to countdown towards the launch of the online portal and research environment, that will provide you access to dispersed Holocaust related sources.

On the 7th November, EHRI partner The Wiener Library: For the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide celebrated the eighty years since it began its work as a record and archive of Nazism and anti-Semitism.

Since May 2012, Katja Happe has been a research associate at the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Freiburg, Germany, for the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) project "The history of the persecution of Jews in the Netherlands 1940-1945". She was an EHRI fellow for four weeks in September 2013 at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies. During her fellowship she did research for her project that will result in a book. She has specialized in Dutch-German history and had visited the NIOD before. 

Kepa works for the Research and Development Department of the Göttingen State and University Library, Germany. In the lab, he is active for the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure and works on the creation of the online portal and research environment.

I graduated with a Doctorate at the Centre for Mind and Brain Sciences (CiMEC) at the University of Trento (Italy) with a focus in Computational Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics.

November 13, 2013 - September 28, 2014

Between 15,000 and 20,000 photographs were taken in the ghettos during World War II. What is the meaning of these pictures? Propaganda? Testimony? Resistance? Denunciation for History? The answers may be found in the context of the photos as well as in the personality of the photographers.

Petra Links is an archivist who works at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam and is very involved in EHRI. Here Petra gives an overview of recently completed work that paves the way for the creation of the portal: the identification of user requirements, the research on metadata standards and the implementation and development of a thesaurus in combination with authority files.