First Online Edition: BeGrenzte Flucht

A key goal of the EHRI Work Package 'New Views on Digital Archives' was to develop annotated online editions of documents as a new way of presenting digital archival content. The editions are empowered by new EHRI tools for digital editing and use and improve upon the EHRI vocabularies and descriptions to generate contextual information displayed to users. The annotated online editions link to EHRI Country Reports; information about collection holding institutions and collection-level descriptions in the EHRI Portal. The same Work Package team is also responsible for the EHRI Document Blog.

If you plan on participating in the EHRI Conference ‘Holocaust Studies and its Social Setting’ on 3 July in Amsterdam, you may take the opportunity to visit the exhibition ‘The Persecution of the Jews in photographs. The Netherlands 1940-1945’ at the Dutch National Holocaust Museum in development. Later this year, the exhibition will travel to the Topographie des Terrors in Berlin.

We would like to extend our appreciation to The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (AJA) for having shared archival descriptions from the records of the World Jewish Congress’s New York office, 1918–1982, which were donated to the AJA in 1982. We are honored that these can now be accessed via the EHRI Portal. 

By starting with a quote from the file of Leopold Berger, this blog post describes the history of the Austrian Concentration Camp Association as well as the collection of 15,000 files held by the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW).

The collection is a unique source for information on Holocaust survivors in Austria and also gives insight into the political situation in the immediate post-war period in Austria.