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Yad Vashem EHRI EVZ Workshop

Report on EHRI Workshop | Challenges in Presenting Holocaust Resources in the Digital Age | From Instagram to Holograms

16/02/2023

On 22-24 November 2022, over 40 experts from Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Italy, Greece, Ukraine, Poland, Czechia, Hungary, UK, USA, and Israel gathered at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem to participate in the international workshop “Challenges in Presenting Holocaust Resources in the Digital Age: Initiatives in Accessibility to Holocaust Archival Sources and New Ways of Presenting Digital Archival Content".

Yad Vashem Workshop Issues Pertaining to Guardianship of Child Survivors

Call for Papers EHRI Partner Workshop | Issues Pertaining to Guardianship of Child Survivors

06/02/2023

The Diana and Eli Zborowski Center for the Study of the Aftermath of the Holocaust | 2023 Annual Workshop on the Aftermath of the Holocaust | June 26–27, 2023 | Zoom Research Workshop | Deadline for Applications: 30 March 2023

In the immediate post-war period, it was estimated that approximately 150,000 Jewish children and adolescents survived the Holocaust in Europe. Most of these children survived in hiding because their parents, Jewish organizations, or rescue networks placed them with non-Jewish families or in religious institutions. Other children arrived at these places on their own. At times, abandoned children were collected and placed in state orphanages.

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Video | Interview with Dr. Reto Speck, Co-Director of EHRI

02/02/2023

After the EHRI General Partner Meeting on 13 November in Brussels, our hosting partner, CegeSoma took the opportunity to have a short video-interview with EHRI Co-Director Reto Speck. CegeSoma's Dirk Luyten asked Reto some questions about EHRI's development into a permanent research infrastructure for Holocaust research and why this is important. You can watch Reto's answers in this 5 minute interview.

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Education | The Remediation of the Holocaust Narratives in the History Classroom

26/01/2023

Emma Abbate has a PhD from the Università Federico II di Napoli and is a CLIL teachers trainer at the Università L'Orientale di Napoli and a teacher at Liceo Scientifico Armando Diaz Caserta.

She participated in the EHRI workshop Challenges in Presenting Holocaust Resources in the Digital Age, that took place at Yad Vashem in November 2022, and has written a blogpost about her contribution that gives insight in modern Holocaust education.


In Holocaust education, the need for a student-centered approach and the increasingly active role of the learners acting more as co-creators of contents than simple interlocutors, call for a creative but ethically respectful remediation of primary sources employed in classrooms. This post describes some digital learning experiences aimed at renewing students’ agency in Shoah remembrance, it is the summary of my contribution to the EHRI workshop "Challenging in presenting Holocaust resources in the Digital Age" in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, in November 2022.

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day - 27 January 2023

25/01/2023

In 2005, the United Nations established an international day of commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. The UN designated 27 January (the liberation of Auschwitz) as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure has 27 partner institutions that commemorate this day with specific events and activities, appropriate for the country they are located in.

To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2023, we’ve gathered some of these events to give an impression of how to commemorate this day.

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New Study Reveals Nearly One Quarter of Dutch Millennials and GenZ Believe the Holocaust Was a Myth or Exaggerated

25/01/2023

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) today released a Netherlands Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Survey, including a breakdown of Millennial and Gen Z respondents, exposing a disturbing lack of awareness of key historical facts about the Holocaust and the Netherlands’ own connection to Holocaust history.

 

#ProtectTheFacts

#ProtectTheFacts – Campaign Toolkit Holocaust Remembrance Day 2023

25/01/2023

Join the #ProtectTheFacts campaign on social media and raise awareness of how to recognize and counter Holocaust distortion.

For International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2023, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) launches a new #ProtectTheFacts campaign on social media to raise awareness of how to recognize and counter Holocaust distortion. ProtectTheFacts is an international initiative of the European Commission, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the United Nations and UNESCO. Help to spread the word on social media and download the toolkit. Read more and toolkit

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For Holocaust Remembrance Day: Listen to the EHRI Podcast "For the Living and the Dead"

25/01/2023

To commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, you could listen to one of the six episodes of the EHRI podcast series For the Living and the Dead. Traces of the Holocaust. They all tell a very personal story of a Holocaust victim, while a researcher gives a wider perspective.

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 personal story about the Holocaust. The first season of the EHRI podcast features a teddy bear, mica-flakes, a postcard, gramophone discs, a magazine cover 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.

EHRI Seminar Engaging Educators

Call for Applications EHRI Seminar | Engaging Educators

19/01/2023

August 7-11, 2023 | Location: Jewish Museum in Prague, Czech Republic

We invite applications from educators of different professional (e.g. secondary school teachers, lecturers involved in teacher training, educators at memorials and other commemorative initiatives) and national backgrounds to attend the first EHRI pedagogical Seminar. The event will offer an opportunity for educators to expand their skills when teaching about the Holocaust in different settings and familiarize them with EHRI’s digital services.

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Online Event MuRem Project | Multiperspective Approaches in Holocaust Remembrance

17/01/2023

Insights from the Practice of European Holocaust Education and Exhibitions

Online | February 7th, 3-5 pm (CET) | Registration deadline: 05.02.2023

How can the Holocaust be exhibited and educated alongside other historical and contemporary human rights and discrimination topics? What are the similarities in the challenges and approaches in different European contexts, and how do they differ? These questionss will be discussed at this online event on February 7th, 3-5 pm (CET).

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