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On September 9 Slovakia commemorated the Day of Victims of the Holocaust and of Racial Persecution

21/09/2015

Since 2000 Slovakia has commemorated the victims of the Holocaust and of racial persecution on 9 September. This specific day was chosen because of its symbolism: indeed on 9 September 1941 the government of the war-time Slovak Republic (1939 – 1945) issued Regulation No. 198/1941 Sl. z. on the Legal Status of Jews, commonly known also as the Jewish Code.

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Modern Antisemitism(s) in the European and Colonial Peripheries from the 1880s to 1945

14/09/2015
Simon Wiesenthal Conference 2015
Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI)
Vienna, 30 November 2015 – 2 December 2015
Call for Papers

Studies of modern antisemitism have focused primarily on Germany, as both the country where the phenomenon is seen to have originated and where it reached its genocidal culmination in the Holocaust.

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EHRI Cooperates on Digitization Project Jewish Council Archives in Europe

08/09/2015

A consortium of seven European archive and research institutes, all involved in EHRI, received a grant from the Claims Conference for the two-year digitization project Jewish Council Archives in Europe. The project brings important – and in some cases still unexploited – archival collections on Jewish Councils and Associations from Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Poland, Israel and Netherland together. This project will be carried out in close cooperation with the EHRI-project.

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US Holocaust Memorial Museum Annual Fellowship Competetion

03/09/2015
Accepting applications for the 2016–2017 fellowship competition: September 1, 2015–November 30, 2015.

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies awards fellowships on a competitive basis to support significant research and writing about the Holocaust. The Mandel Center welcomes proposals from scholars in all academic disciplines, including but not limited to history, political science, literature, Jewish studies, philosophy, religion, sociology, anthropology, comparative genocide studies, and law.

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The Saul Kagan Claims Conference Fellowship for Advanced Shoah Studies

02/09/2015
PhD and Post Doctoral Candidates conducting Research on the Holocaust.  The Maximum Award Amount is $20,000 Per Year.

The Saul Kagan Claims Conference Fellowship for Advanced Shoah Studies aims to strengthen Shoah studies and Holocaust memory throughout the world. Our mission is to support the advanced study of the fate of Jews who were systematically targeted for destruction or persecution by the Nazis and their allies between 1933 and 1945, as well as immediate post-war events.  

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Innovating the Heritage Research Sector - PARTHENOS Begins Its Work

24/08/2015

The PARTHENOS project has been awarded €12 million over four years by the EU to support and build on the efforts of a range of EU projects in the domain of cultural heritage, digital humanities, linguistics, history and archaeology. EHRI is one of the projects that, led by its coordinator NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, takes part in PARTHENOS. Within PARTHENOS, EHRI will be involved in communication, standardization of requirements and trans-national access.

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CfP: 21st Workshop on the History and Memory of National Socialist Camps and Extermination Sites

06/08/2015
“Between Resistance and Collaboration"
Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France.
May 24th until May 30th 2016
Deadline is October 15, 2015
http://workshopnscampsandexterminationsites.com
workshopnscamps@gmail.com

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CfP: Life in the aftermath – Displaced Persons, Displaced Children and Child Survivors on the move.

06/08/2015
30 May – 1 June 2016
Joint event organised by Max Mannheimer Studienzentrum (MMSZ), Dachau, the International Tracing Service (ITS), Bad Arolsen with consultance by the Holocaust Studies Program of the Western Galilee College, Akko, Israel
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Call for EHRI fellowship programme (2016-2018)

28/07/2015
EHRI (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure) invites applications for its fellowship programme (2016-2018).

The EHRI fellowships are intended to support and stimulate Holocaust research by facilitating international access to key archives and collections related to the Holocaust as well as archival and digital humanities knowhow. The fellowships intend to support researchers, archivists, curators, and younger scholars, especially PhD candidates with limited resources.

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CfP: The Holocaust in the 21st Century: Relevance and Challenges in the Digital Age

22/07/2015
Call for Papers and Panels
Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust XIV
The Holocaust in the 21st Century: Relevance and Challenges in the Digital Age
November 3-6, 2016, Claremont McKenna, California

The 14th biennial Lessons and Legacies Conference, sponsored by the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University and Claremont McKenna College, will consist of two plenary addresses, roundtables, multiple panels, workshops, and colloquia relating to recent issues and advances in scholarship on all aspects of Holocaust Studies.

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