EHRI Newsletter - November 2016
 
Group photo EHRI June 2016
07/07/2016

Once a year the people that work to make the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) a success all meet for a General Partner Meeting and several smaller working sessions. This year, on 21-23 June, the EHRI consortium of 23 partner institutions from 17 countries met in Bucharest, the city where hosting EHRI partner the Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania is based.

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ITS archive
03/10/2016

An aid used by the International Tracing Service (ITS) to find general information on incarceration and persecution sites of the Nazi regime was published on the EHRI portal in May 2016. The physical finding aid - a card index - had been compiled gradually between the years 1970 and 1982 and served primarily as a search tool for ITS staff members. The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - DFG) supported its retro-conversion to serve as an online finding aid.

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EHRI Seminar at the Bundesarchiv
03/10/2016

The Federal Archives’ EHRI seminar "Modern Diplomatics of the Holocaust" gave an introduction into the handling of German records.

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EHRI Seminar in Bucharest
06/10/2016

Between September 19th -23rd , the EHRI seminar "The Study of Holocaust in Romania - current status and directions" took place in Bucharest.

The participants were researchers and archivists from Canada, Hungary, Israel, Republic of Moldova, Denmark, Republic of Macedonia, Germany, Italy and Romania.

The seminar was organized by Institutul Național pentru Studierea Holocaustului din România "Elie Wiesel", in cooperation with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) within the framework of the EHRI project.

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Elderly people Terezin
27/10/2016

In the latest EHRI blog post, the spotlight is on a document about the Terezín ghetto from the Jewish Museum in Prague from September 5, 1942. It details statistics about the “Distribution of infirm people in the ghetto”. Statistics on the elderly and so-called “infirm” people are quite common in the departments of the Jewish Self Administration.

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Ján Hlavinka
06/10/2016

A member of EHRI Working Groups on Dissemination (WP2) and New Methodologies, Data Identification and Integration (WP9), Ján Hlavinka is a researcher at the Holocaust Documentation Center as well as at the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Slovakia.

In 2002 I started my career as a researcher at the Museum of Slovak National Uprising in Banská Bystrica and couple of months later I moved to the Nations Memory Institute in Bratislava (2003-2008). There I co-developed and later led the project focusing on the documentation of the Holocaust. The project included the gathering of sources for later published databases as well as the academic research. In 2007 I published my first monograph focused on the victims of Holocaust from the district of Medzilaborce.

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Bottle Frumkin family
27/10/2016

Neringa Latvytė from EHRI partner the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum (VGSJM) in Lithuania made a remarkable discovery when she visited the biggest market of Vilnius: a small brown glass bottle that had a bigger tale to tell. With her story she would like to encourage people to tell bigger stories by connecting objects, archives, sources and memories.

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10/10/2016

by Raul Cârstocea

In the period of the 5th to the 30th September 2016 I held an EHRI Fellowship at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, under the supervision of Dr. Karel Berkhoff. This was the first part of a combined research stay that also includes a two weeks period at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London.

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Ontotext - Semantic Integration
06/10/2016

Vladimir Alexiev

Ontotext is a Bulgarian software company that works in the areas of Semantic Web, Linked Open Data, Semantic Text Analysis and Conceptual Search. We have worked on many EC research projects and commercial projects in the areas of semantic repositories (databases) and semantic text enrichment (concept extraction and named entity recognition). A lot of our business is with mass-media and publishing companies, such as BBC, Euromoney, Press Association, Financial Times, IET, Oxford University Press, Wiley, etc. We have also worked with GLAM institutions, such as the UK National Archives, the British Museum, one of the most important vocabulary institutions in Switzerland, Europeana, DBpedia.

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Ifz logo
27/10/2016

EHRI partner the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History will be offering grants for research stays at the Center in Munich during 2017.

The fellowships are designed to support and foster international Holocaust research. The program is aimed at established as well as younger researchers. As we are interested in a high degree of international cooperation, applications from Europe as well as from all over the world are welcome. A topic within the field of Holocaust Studies is required in order to be eligible for one of the fellowships.

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