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CfP: Teaching Methods of the Holocaust and Genocide

20/10/2015
Conference: 34th Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide
To be held at Millersville University, Millersville, PA, from April 6-8, 2016
General topic of the panel: Teaching Methods of the Holocaust and Genocide.
Due date: November 2, 2015, at 12 noon

Millersville University is seeking one participant (to offer a paper) and a chair to join us on a panel dealing with the pedagogy of teaching about the Holocaust and Genocide.

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Call for Applications: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Archives Fellowships

19/10/2015

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is pleased to present its Fellowship program. Two or three fellowships will be awarded each year to deserving scholars engaged in graduate level, post-doctoral, or independent study to conduct research in the JDC Archives, either in New York or Jerusalem.

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Call for Applications: A Research Introduction to the Holocaust in the Soviet Union

09/10/2015
January 4-8, 2016, Washington, DC
Applications due October 11, 2015

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum invites applications for the seminar “A Research Introduction to the Holocaust in the Soviet Union.” This seminar will be held January 4–8, 2016, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.

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Call for Applications: HEF Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization

09/10/2015
The 21st Annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization
The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois, June 19 to July 1, 2016
Call for Fellows

The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University invites applications for fellowships to participate in the 21st annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, from June 19 to July 1, 2016, at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

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ITS places documents on Nazi persecution and its aftermath online

08/10/2015

There is a great deal of interest worldwide in the documents of the archives of the International Tracing Service (ITS) about former victims of Nazi persecution and the liberated survivors. A small part of this collection, which since 2013 is inscribed onto the UNESCO “Memory of the World” register, can now be viewed in a new online archive. EHRI partner, the ITS has uploaded three collections in an initial step, including photos of personal objects that were taken from the prisoners in the concentration camps.

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Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum Presents Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum - 10 Years of Investigations

08/10/2015
Exhibit Revealing Little-Known Model for Genocide Debuts in Eastern Europe October 1 to November 22, 2015

New EHRI partner, the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum, in Vilnius, Lithuania, debuts the exhibit, "Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum - 10 Years of Investigations," from October 1 to November 22, 2015. Based on ten years of investigation by the international nonprofit organization, Yahad-In Unum and its founder, Father Patrick Desbois, the exhibit chronicles the lesser-known side of the Holocaust.

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Fellowships and Workshops 2016/17 at POLIN Museum

07/10/2015
POLIN Research Fellowships for Doctoral and Postdoctoral Candidates

POLIN Museum’s Global Educational Outreach Program, supported by the William K. Bowes Jr Foundation and the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture, is offering up to six doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships for three to five consecutive months in residence at POLIN Museum and the Jewish Historical Institute (ŻIH).

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EHRI as a special guest on important meeting for Czech Digital Humanities

01/10/2015

A first Workshop on Digital Humanities in Czech Republic took place on 24 September 2015 in Prague. Organized by the LINDAT/CLARIN Center, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague and under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic. The event was coordinated in cooperation with the Jewish Museum in Prague and the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. With 65 officially registered guests, the workshop was very well attended by various stakeholders in the field. The workshop was opened by professor Eva Hajičová and an opening speech was held by Lukáš Levák, Director Department of Research and Development, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.

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People in EHRI: Laura Brazzo, CDEC, Italy

24/09/2015
Works for the Foundation Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center (CDEC), Italy
Involved in EHRI since May 2015

I received my degree in Contemporary history at the Università Statale of Milan. My thesis concerned the Italian Zionists and the Italian diplomats dealing with the question of the future of Palestine during the First World War.

My PhD thesis was in Political science and concerned with the relations between the EEC and the State of Israel and the construction of the "image” of Israel by the European Institutions from 1957 to 1973.

For almost ten years I was involved in the activities of the Chair of Contemporary History at the Università Statale in Milan and, at the same time, with the Commission of History of International Relations.

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New Partner in EHRI: the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum

21/09/2015

In its new phase, the EHRI project has 23 partners, of which 11 are new. In this article, one new partner, the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum (VGSJM) from Lithuania, introduces itself.

The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum (VGSJM) is a national institution under the Ministry of Culture of Lithuania that collects, conserves, investigates, restores and exhibits the historical, material and spiritual heritage of Lithuanian Jews, traditional and modern Jewish objects of art and documents and objects connected with the Holocaust.

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