Workshop held at the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide, April 11th 2014.

In April, the Wiener Library for the Study of Holocaust and Genocide held a workshop which outlined the progress made in the EHRI project so far. The workshop was attended by a large number of students, academics and members of the public and successfully promoted the EHRI portal as a resource for Holocaust researchers and institutions. This is part of the build up to March 2015 when EHRI will introduce its main achievement, an online portal that gives access to dispersed sources relating to the Holocaust.

There were a number of speakers at the workshop throughout the day including:

• Ben Barkow (Wiener Library) who introduced the Workshop and EHRI's work
• Dr Laszlo Csosz (Holocaust Memorial Center, Hungary), Overcoming the Gap: Eastern Perpectives on EHRI.
• Dr Veerle vanden Daelen (CEGES-SOMA, Belgium), Bringing in the data - EHRI's identification and investigation work.
• Miriam Haardt (Wiener Library), The EHRI-Thesaurus - an access tool for dispersed sources?
• Dr Reto Speck (Kings College London), The EHRI Portal: Integrated access to dispersed sources and collaborative tools

Together they explained how EHRI works to integrate the collections of various Holocaust institutions across Europe into an accessible online portal and how it also encourages collaboration in research across various fields of interest.

The response to the results of EHRI's work so far were very positive and it offers great potential for the research of the Holocaust in the future.

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