The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw recently organized the international conference Research and Preservation of the Secret Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, within the framework of European Holocaust Research Infrastructure project. The one-day conference, which took place on 8 December 2018, aimed to bring together scholars dealing with the history of the Warsaw Ghetto and working on the Secret Archive (also known as the Emanuel Ringelblum’s Archive) created by the Oneg Shabbat, a team of Jews lead by Emanuel Ringelblum, who documented daily life in the Jewish district of Warsaw.

This EHRI workshop, to be held at the Wiener Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust studies, Vienna, Austria on 1-2 April 2019, aims to have a fresh look at how Holocaust documentation is made available in the space where the historical events unfolded. We welcome proposals on all aspects of making Holocaust documentation digitally available in the space of the community.

Researchers are invited to submit a proposal for the workshop “The Activities of ‘the Joint’ in Poland and Neighboring Countries 1945-1989: Reality and Perceptions,” to be held at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw on August 7-9, 2019. This workshop is co-sponsored by the JDC Archives and the POLIN Museum. Other partners include the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, and the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University.

EHRI Seminar "From the Living Room to the World-Wide Web: Documenting, Uploading and Utilizing Holocaust Testimonies in the Digital Age" Jerusalem, 11-15 November, 2018

Yad Vashem hosted a unique and innovative EHRI seminar dealing with the challenges involved in collecting, preserving, accessing and using testimonies of Holocaust survivors in the digital age.