Lecture EHRI-CZ ꟾ Documentation Action in Prague (EHRI online edition)

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).
Workers of the Documentation Action in Prague, 1946. From left: Zeev Schek, Edita Saxlová, Robert Weinberger, Harald Tressler (standing), Berta Gerzonová, Ruth Bondy, Jiří Lauscher. Photo courtesy of Rachel Shek.

Workers of the Documentation Action in Prague, 1946. From left: Zeev Schek, Edita Saxlová, Robert Weinberger, Harald Tressler (standing), Berta Gerzonová, Ruth Bondy, Jiří Lauscher. Photo courtesy of Rachel Shek.

Date: 12th February 2025, 6pm
Place: Auditorium OVK – 3rd floor, Maiselova 15, Prague 1

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, the Jewish Museum in Prague, in cooperation with the Czech Node of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI-CZ), prepared a series of lectures entitled New Views and Sources on History of the Holocaust. The first presentation, entitled Documentation Action in Prague, will be opened by historian Mgr. Magdalena Sedlická, Ph.D. (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the CAS, EHRI-CZ).

The presentation will focus on the digital edition of Shoah survivors’ testimonies collected as part of the so-called “Documentation Action in Prague”, one of the earliest projects that focused on collecting authentic documents and evidence of the Shoah, primarily from the territory of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The online edition was published within the framework of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) project, whose platform enables a new way of presenting digital archival content. EHRI digital editions focus on annotated texts supplemented by, among other things, scans of documents and interactive maps.