A public symposium at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

9 September 2024 | Online or in person at US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C. US

We’re pleased to announce a public symposium at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, co-convened by the Conference on Jewish material Claims against Germany and EHRI partners the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and The Wiener Holocaust Library (London, UK).

The symposium will take place on Monday 9 September, and you can register to attend in person or online.

However, may you be interested in an informative summer, or in expanding your (historical) horizon, then we may have a few tips for you:

• Start with the first EHRI Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): “It Must All be Recorded Without a Single Fact Left Out” - The Holocaust through the Perspective of Primary Sources. In this new online video course produced by EHRI and Yad Vashem, you will explore diaries, photographs, official Nazi documents, postwar survivor testimonies and much more - all together with leading scholars in the field. You will become acquainted with original documents and gain hands-on experience in using them while learning about their importance, and the unique perspectives they provide us into this cataclysmic event. The MOOC  is hosted on the Coursera Platform and free of charge. Follow this link to find out more about the MOOC and start your first lesson today: EHRI MOOC
• Listen to an episode of the EHRI Podcast For the Living and the Dead. Traces of the Holocaust. In each episode of For the Living and the Dead, a Holocaust researcher talks about an object, now often in a museum or archive, that tells a very personal story about the Holocaust. The first and second season of the EHRI podcast featured a teddy bear, sunflowers, a postcard, gramophone discs,  birch-bark tefilllin and a typewriter. The unique stories come from all over Europe – the Holocaust being a continent-wide phenomenon – ranging from Belgium to Ukraine, from Romania to Italy. The EHRI Podcast series contains 2 seasons and 12 episodes of around 30 minutes. A third season will be released in the autumn.

“My time at the Bundesarchiv-Lichterfelde as a European Holocaust Research Infrastructure #fellow has been illuminating. I have been able to see original documents that I have only read about and found fascinating information about programs that have yet to be studied. This has been a wonderful opportunity to further my own research and knowledge,” says Jennifer Putnam, an EHRI Conny Kristel Fellow, about her stay at the Bundesarchiv.

Jennifer Putnam is now a Research Historian at the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy at the National World War II Museum. Jennifer received her PhD in History from the University of London, where she studied prisoner graffiti in Nazi concentration camps and ghettos. Her current research focuses on Briefaktion, a forced letter-writing campaign that camouflaged the true purpose of the concentration and death camps.

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EHRI was praised for its “exceptional results”

The day after the EHRI Academic Conference: Researching the Holocaust in the Digital Age, EHRI’s annual General Partners Meeting was hosted by the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw. Over fifty members of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) consortium, representing more than fifteen countries gathered to hear the latest updates of the work of EHRI.