The eleven-state International Commission for the International Tracing Service (ITS) is seeking a new Director for the ITS at Bad Arolsen in Germany in succession to the International Committee of the Red Cross which has run the archives and tracing service since 1955.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies is now accepting applications for the 2012-13 fellowship competition. The Center awards fellowships to support significant research and writing about the Holocaust.

On 1 December 2011 EHRI partner The Wiener Library has officially relaunched in its new home at 29 Russell Square, London. The event was attended by Princess Anne and Dave Milliband.

Recently EHRI partner Yad Vashem signed a breakthrough agreement with the archival authorities of Lithuania and Belarus and will soon sign a new agreement with the archival authority of Ukraine.

In the first issue of the bulletin VWI im Fokus of EHRI partner Wiener Wiesenthal Instituts für Holocaust-Studien (VWI in Austria), Geschäftsführer Béla Rásky interviews Michal Frankl from the Jewish Museum in Prague. The Jewish Museum, where Michal Frankl is Head of the Shoah History Department, is also a partner in the EHRI project.

Read the interview (in German) >>

'The Jews from Macedonia and the Holocaust' is an international research project realized by the Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities 'Euro-Balkan' in Skopje, Macedonia, at the Department for Cultural and Visual Research in the period from 2010 to 2011.

On 30 November 2011  Conny Kristel, Project Director of EHRI, and Haim Gertner, member of the EHRI Executive and Director Archives Division at Yad Vashem, gave a short presentation at a session of the Academic Workgroup of the Task Force for International Cooperation On Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (ITF).

Over a 100 people have already responded to our Holocaust Research Survey. If you have not yet completed our questionnaire, maybe you could raise the number and click on this link. We want to thank everbody who has already taken the time. Perhaps you could help us even more by telling your research friends or mention us on Twitter. Thanks!

Thanks to the many responses to our call in the EHRI Newletter of July 2011, we have been able to set up the Research Users Advisory Committee. Twenty researchers from sixteen different countries will provide feedback and comment on the User Requirements formulated for the EHRI-infrastructure. In the coming months the names and biographies of the members will be published on www.ehri-project.eu.

'Could my organization become a partner of EHRI?' 'I am a researcher of the Holocaust in the Ukraine and I would like to discuss this topic with other researchers. Could you help me?' 'As a student of Holocaust Studies I would like to get into contact with the research community.' 'I lost my mother in the Second World War. Where can I find more information about her?' 

These are a few examples of the questions that EHRI receives.