SOCIAL RESPONSES AND COMMEMORATION | 21-22 September 2022, Warsaw, Poland

EHRI partner, the Emmanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute invites proposals  for the international conference 80 Years after "Aktion Reinhard" (1942-1943): Social Responses and Commemoration, which will be held on 21-22 September 2022 in Warsaw, in cooperation with the Warsaw Ghetto Museum and the State Museum at Majdanek. 

Aktion Reinhardt

In the spring of 1942, the Germans – under the codename Aktion Reinhardt – began to exterminate Polish Jews in the General Government district of German-occupied Poland. The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest World War II ghetto in German-occupied Europe. The largest number of Jews was transported to the Treblinka death camp between 22 July and Yom Kippur (21 September) 1942. For eight weeks, the rail shipments of Jews to Treblinka went on without stopping. By November 1943, when the Treblinka death camp was closed, more than 1,5 million Jews from Poland and other European countries were murdered in the so-called Aktion Reinhard.

This new EHRI Document Blog post, written by  Hana Kubátová and Monika Vrzgulová, takes a closer look at a taped interview with a Holocaust survivor from a small town in eastern Slovakia. This interview has a restricted access in Slovakia. The post follows the life story of the survivor and asks the questions:

What propelled the interviewee to forbid access to his testimony strictly in the country in which he was born?

What does locally controlled access tell us about the experience, but also the environment of a Holocaust witness?

And how do scholars integrate a story that is missing, and even more so, one that is restricted?

Read the Document Blog

Join the first EHRI Webinar on Zoom

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 03:00 PM CET

EHRI invites you to join our first webinar Social Networks and Surviving the Holocaust. This webinar will be presented by Štěpán Jurajda, Mellon Endowment Professor with Tenure at the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education – Economics Institute (CERGE-EI) in Prague, Czech Republic. In cooperation with Matěj Bělín (CERGE-EI) and Tomáš Jelínek (Moravian Business College Olomouc) he performs statistical research on a social Holocaust-related topic.

Topic EHRI webinar

Survivor testimonies link survival in deadly POW camps, Gulags, and Nazi concentration camps to the formation of close friendships with other prisoners. Jurajda, Bělín and Jelínek provide statistical evidence on the importance of the availability of social linkages for the survival of the 140,000 Jews who entered the Theresienstadt ghetto.

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, 2022. Up to five university lectureships will each run for five years. The selection process is led by the Alfred Landecker Foundation’s Academic Council.