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Presentation of Book by Andrea Löw 26. 03. 2025
Presentation of book by Andrea Löw: „Always with one foot in the grave“ – Experiences of German Jews. The presentation is part of a series organized by the Jewish Museum in Prague and the Czech Node of the European Holocaust Research Institute (EHRI) called “New Views and Sources on the History of Holocaust”.
Learn MoreConference ꟾ White Places of Jewish Moravia and Vienna 26. 03. 2025
The conference "White Places of Jewish Moravia and Vienna" will take place on Sunday, April 6, 2025, at MUNI, Komenský náměstí 2. (Sir Roger Scruton Hall).
Learn MoreEva Janáčová's lecture ꟾ Spa Antisemitism 05. 03. 2025
Invitation to the second lecture of the lecture series organized by EHRI-CZ and the Jewish Museum Prague.
Learn MoreLecture EHRI-CZ ꟾ Documentation Action in Prague (EHRI online edition) 12. 02. 2025
Invitation to the lecture New Views and Sources on History of Holocaust (part of the lecture series organized by EHRI-CZ and the Jewish Museum Prague).
Learn MoreUnlocking Holocaust Testimony ꟾ EHRI-CLARIN Datathon Workshop 10. 02. 2025
The Hands-on workshop will take place on 26-27 February 2025 at the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest.
Learn MoreEHRI PRESS RELEASE | EHRI Becomes an ERIC to Secure the Future of Holocaust Research 27. 01. 2025
The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) was inaugurated as a permanent European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) during a ceremony at the Polin Museum in Warsaw.
Learn MoreEHRI-CZ Seminar | Databases of the Persecuted | New Perspectives on Holocaust Research, Education, and Commemoration 09. 01. 2025
The two-day EHRI-CZ seminar focused on assessing the current state of, and critically reflecting on, the documentation of the names and fates of people who were persecuted during the Holocaust in the Czech lands and Central and Eastern Europe.
Learn MorePodcast Episode | Uncovering Hidden (Hi)stories 16. 12. 2024
The final episode of the third series of the EHRI podcast takes a step back to look at micro-archives in a more general sense. In keeping with our theme, however, we also focus on an object that teaches us more about the Holocaust.
Learn MoreCall for Papers | The Quantitative Turn in Holocaust Research 04. 11. 2024
Article proposals can be submitted to Eastern European Holocaust Studies in English or Ukrainian at eehs@degruyter.com to the editors.
Learn MoreNomination form for the Holocaust Studies in Translation book series 03. 11. 2024
This interdisciplinary series will showcase cutting-edge scholarship from Eastern Europe to make it accessible to an English-speaking audience. The submission deadline is November 15, 2024.
Learn MoreVictim Databases | New perspectives on Holocaust research, education and remembrance 10. 09. 2024
Seminar of the Czech node of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI).
Learn More“I Loved Him as a Father” | The Silences of Hiding-Related Sexual Violence 06. 09. 2024
If This Is A Woman – EHRI Document Blog Series on Gender Studies and Holocaust History.
Learn MoreEHRI Webinar 25 Sep | Analyzing Early Holocaust Testimonies with Digital Tools 04. 09. 2024
The webinar "The Future of the Past: Analyzing Early Holocaust Testimonies with Digital Tools" will discuss the key aspects of the “Digital Lens” project, beginning with an overview of our research approach and highlighting the most significant findings.
Learn MoreLatest EHRI Blogpost | Uncovering Local Hungarian Jewish Histories 31. 07. 2024
The latest EHRI Document Blogpost, written by former EHRI fellow and Oxford Doctoral Candidate Barnabas Balint, identifies a specific genre of local history source – Hungarian Jewish community history books.
Learn MoreCall for Applications EHRI Workshop in Poland | Holocaust Places and Spaces as Data 21. 06. 2024
With the growing interest in Holocaust geographies, researchers, projects and/or educators increasingly work and struggle with data representing the places and spaces of Holocaust history.
Learn MoreCall for Applications | EHRI Seminar Holocaust and Exile 25. 05. 2024
November 4 - 7 2024 | German Exile Archive 1933-1945 | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2024.
Learn MoreNext EHRI Webinar | June l Digitising Greek-Jewish Social Networks in Auschwitz-Birkenau 25. 5. 2024
Since the mid-1980s, the structure of all major audiovisual Holocaust archives has rested on the conceptual triangulation of 'testimony', the 'witness', and 'survival'. The audiovisual testimony becomes the organising unit of the digital Holocaust archive and thus determines its serial logic.
Learn MoreNew Yiddish Documents in Early Holocaust Testimony Edition 21. 02. 2024
EHRI launches a new series of survivors’ testimonies recorded before 1960. The second EHRI Online Edition, the Early Holocaust Testimony, has been expanded by the unique documents written in the Yiddish language.
Learn MoreNext EHRI Webinar 20 March | Societies under German Occupation 21. 02. 2024
EHRI Webinar | 20 March 2024 | 3 PM CET | On Zoom During the Second World War, approximately 230 million people in 27 countries lived under German occupation.
Learn MoreHolocaust Testimonies as Language Resources 21. 02. 2024
Paper submission deadline 28 February 2024. Testimonies stand as the primary source of information that describe the Holocaust, offering first-hand accounts and personal narratives of those who experienced it.
Learn MoreChildren of Antonín Kalina | Exhibition 04. 02. 2024
The exhibition will take place from February 8, 2024 to June 30, 2024 in the synagogue in Třebíč.
Learn MoreNew Date EHRI Webinar, 7 February | The Digital Remembrance Landscape of Austria 24. 01. 2024
The Digital Memory Landscape Austria (DERLA) is a documentation and education project. It documents the places and signs of remembrance of the victims and places of terror of National Socialism in Austria and aims at a critical examination of National Socialism and fascism and the remembrance of them.
Learn MoreCall for Applications EHRI Partner US Holocaust Memorial Museum | 2024 Annual Seminar on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust 24. 01. 2024
The 2024 Annual Faculty Seminar on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust will examine the profound and painful questions the Holocaust and its aftermath raise for Jews and Christians in regard to their texts and traditions.
Learn MoreCall for Applications | Alfred Landecker Lecturer Program 2024 24. 01. 2024
The Alfred Landecker Foundation is pleased to invite applications from highly qualified postdocs in the humanities and social sciences, for a full-time lecturer program set to begin on October 1, 2024.
Learn MoreCall for Participants | Mapping the Holocaust, UK Universities Workshop 24. 01. 2024
In examining the routes taken by people, objects, and ideas during and after the Holocaust, this workshop highlights the connections and diversions (geographically, temporally, topically, etc.) when attempting to 'map the Holocaust'.
Learn MorePreserving Memory. Holocaust Monuments and Memorials in Central Europe. 16. 01. 2024
This international conference will focus on the expert evaluation of the topic of Holocaust monuments and memorials in Central Europe.
Learn MoreInterdisciplinary perspectives and personal micro-stories enrich Holocaust research 11. 12. 2023
Tragic events framed the four-day international conference on Holocaust research took place in November 2023 in Prague. Due to the war, researchers from Israel could not participate in the long-planned Lessons and Legacies event.
Learn MoreCall for Applications CLARIN-EHRI Workshop | "Natural Language Processing Meets Holocaust Archives" 4. 12. 2023
This interactive, hands-on workshop is a cooperation between two transnational European research infrastructures, bringing language technology together with Holocaust archives and data
Learn MoreDeadline for applications for Conny Kristel Fellowships 2023 22. 10. 2023
Fellowships provide access to key Holocaust-related archives and collections, as well as expertise in archives and digital humanities.
Learn MoreWartime Paperwork: How Citizens Navigated Soviet Bureaucracy During and After World War II 18. 8. 2023
Tobias Walsh's article in a series on the Holocaust in Ukraine outlines how Soviet Jewish citizens exploited loopholes in the Soviet bureaucracy to negotiate their position in society.
Learn MoreEHRI launches Geospatial Repository 19. 6. 2023
By providing access to data on Holocaust-related places and spaces, the EHRI Geospatial Repository facilitates research focused on spatial and geographical approaches.
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