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Alfred Landecker Lecturer Program

Call for Applications | Alfred Landecker Lecturer Program

12/01/2023

The Alfred Landecker Foundation is pleased to invite applications from highly qualified postdocs in the humanities and social sciences, for a full-time lecturer program set to begin on October 1, 2023. Up to five university lectureships will each run for five years. The Alfred Landecker Foundation’s Academic Council is leading the selection process.

EHRI Podcast For the Living and the Dead

All 6 Episodes of the First EHRI Podcast Season Now Released

21/12/2022

Visit the EHRI Podcast Homepage for all 6 episodes

On 8 December, EHRI published the final and sixth episode of our new podcast series For the Living and the Dead: Traces of the Holocaust for 2022. 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. This 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, ranging from Belgium to Ukraine, from Romania to Italy.

Workshop EHRI-PP GPM

EHRI-PP General Partner Meeting in Brussels | “EHRI Is a Complex Building”

21/12/2022

On 13 and 14 December, all partners of EHRI-PP met for their semi-annual General Partner Meeting at the Belgian State Archives/CegeSoma in Brussels, the partner who had generously offered to host the event. EHRI-PP (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure – Preparatory Phase) is the EHRI-project concerned with preparing the research infrastructure for a permanent status in 2025, thereby securing the future of trans-national Holocaust research.

At this moment, many steps in terms of legal and financial work and developing research, user and technical strategies have already been taken. In May 2023, EHRI-PP will end and we can enter the implementation phase (IP). This will take us to the permanent status in the form of an ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) in 2025.

DARIAH Campus Website

Research Infrastructures | EHRI Resources on the DARIAH Campus Website

21/12/2022

Last November, EHRI published its first training resource to the DARIAH Campus website. This short guide, “How To Capture and Reference a Webpage in Your Research Using Zotero”, will show you how to use Zotero to capture webpages that can then be cited in your work. The need to reference webpages in academic work is growing all the time, particularly in the digital humanities. There are many different reference management systems that exist to help researchers sort and find their sources, and the most accessible of these is Zotero.

Janina Struk at Holocaust Photo Conference

EHRI and HMC Conference and Workshop on Holocaust Photographs in Budapest

20/12/2022

On December 7-8 in Budapest, nineteen scholars, educators, and archivists from ten countries discussed a well-known category of historical records, which, as a closer look invariably reveals, is also a difficult one: Holocaust photographs – or more precisely, photographs taken during and revealing aspects of the Holocaust.

Luba melchior

New EHRI Blog | Documenting the Documenter: Piecing Together the History of Polish Holocaust Survivor-Historian Luba Melchior

19/12/2022

This new EHRI Document Blogpost, by Victoria Martinez, follows the Polish Holocaust survivor and researcher Luba Melchior, in the Polish Research Institute (PIZ) in Lund, Sweden in 1945 and 1946. Almost immediately following her arrival to Sweden on April 28, 1945, Luba Melchior started gathering evidence and testimonies from other Polish survivors of Nazi persecution. However, she did not leave her own testimony or any deliberate personal account of her life and experiences before, during, or after the Second World War and the Holocaust. This post tries to document this documenter by piecing together her story as both a Holocaust survivor and historian.

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Voices of Ravensbruck Map

CLARIN Project | Voices from Ravensbrück: The Value of Multilingual Oral History

19/12/2022

This is an extract of an article that has been published as part of CLARIN's impact stories.

The Voices from Ravensbrück project is the result of the curation and selection of multilingual oral history interviews with survivors from the Ravensbrück concentration camp for women.

Organised and funded in the context of CLARIN’s Resource Families, this interdisciplinary project brings together multilingual experts in the fields of linguistics, speech technology, speech corpora curation, phonetics and history.

The project gives voice to a heterogeneous group of women who survived the Ravensbrück concentration camp, including resistance fighters, aid workers, prisoners of war, and Jewish women and children. After the camp was liberated by Soviet forces, the women returned home or emigrated.

Women in the Holocaust

Conference - Workshop - Fellowships | Women in the Holocaust International Study Center

12/12/2022

Call for Papers International Conference on Women in the Holocaust | 10-12 October 2023, Belgrade, Serbia | Deadline for submission of proposals 28 February 2023

The Moreshet Mordechai Anielevich Memorial Holocaust Study and Research Center, Givat Haviva, Israel is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for its inaugural International Conference on Women in the Holocaust.

Podcast Gramophone Discs

New Release EHRI Podcast | A Box with Old Gramophone Discs Dusted Off

08/12/2022

Release date: 8 December 2022 More about the Podcast Series For the Living and the Dead. Traces of the Holocaust

In this EHRI Podcast episode, we will talk about the unique discovery of 33 vinyl discs, a hidden treasure in the archive of the Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center, CDEC, in Milan. The discs contain recordings of interviews given in 1955 by six of the sixteen survivors of the rounding up of the Jews of Rome on 16 October 1943, the infamous “Black Saturday”. One of the testimonies is by Cesare and Lello Di Segni, father and son, who gave account of how they survived the Holocaust.

These very early testimonies of the Holocaust were found by accident by Laura Brazzo, head of the Archive and Digital Library of the CDEC Foundation.

Workshop Bodies and Borders

Call for Papers and Participants | Workshop "Bodies and Borders"

01/12/2022

26th Workshop on the History and Memory of National Socialist Camps and Killing Sites | 4-10 September 2023, Łódź, Poland | Deadline for applications: 15 January 2023

You are invited to apply to the 26th Workshop on the History and Memory of National Socialist Camps and Killing Sites. The workshop will take place in Łódź, Poland, from 4 to 10 September 2023 and explore “bodies and borders” as analytical categories for the study of the Holocaust, Nazi camps and killing sites. The Workshop on the History and Memory of National Socialist Camps and Killing Sites has been held annually since 1994. This international workshop, organized by and for emerging scholars and Holocaust educators, provides an interdisciplinary and non-hierarchical forum dedicated to research on National Socialist camps and killing sites. In particular, the topics of persecution, forced labor, mass murder and the Holocaust, as well as their representation in various historical cultures, are discussed.

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