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President Obama Visits Yad Vashem

26/03/2013

Unique manuscript shown to US President

On Friday 22 March, US President Barack Obama visited EHRI partner Yad Vashem. He visited the Hall of Names, the Museum of Holocaust Art, participated in a memorial ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance, and visited the Children’s Memorial, before signing the Yad Vashem Guest Book.

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Call for Papers: Kavod Issue 4

19/03/2013
Deadline: May 30th, 2013

The Claims Conference seeks professional articles for the fourth issue of Kavod. They invite submissions from a variety of authors representing academic research, case studies, related agency initiatives and development, clinical practice and book reviews.

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IHRA Seeks Project Coordinator for Multi-Year Workplan on Archives

27/02/2013

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA, formerly known as the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research) seeks to fill the position of a project coordinator for its Multi-Year Work Plan on Archival Access.

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ITF Announces New Name: International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)

26/02/2013

The International Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (ITF) will change its name into International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). This was decided during the ITF meeting on December 10-13 in Liège (Belgium).

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EHRI Maps the Greek Holocaust Archives

18/02/2013

On 4 December 2012, an EHRI workshop on Greek Holocaust-related archives took place in Athens. Presided by Dr. Veerle Vanden Daelen (Ceges-Soma, 'Identification & Investigation' Work Package leader in EHRI) and co-organized by Dr. Agiatis Benardou (Athena RC/IMIS, EHRI user requirements), an EHRI delegation met with a representative sample of the Greek Holocaust research community, including members of major universities, museums and archival institutions.

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Foundation of the Memory of the Shoah: Call for Projects

18/02/2013
Program ‘History of Anti-Semitism and of the Shoah’ 2013-2014

A private French foundation for the benefit of the public, the Foundation of the Memory of the Shoah pursues its program for assisting research in all fields concerning the Shoah, its origins and consequences, up to the present day, as well as studies on past and contemporary anti-Semitism.

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New Scholars and New Research on the Holocaust

18/02/2013
Call for Papers
International Academic Conference on Holocaust Research
University of Toronto; October 6-7, 2013

Organized by the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair of Holocaust Studies and the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto, and the Government of Canada, this international academic conference will showcase and consider new Holocaust-related research by new scholars in the field.

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Fellowships 2013/2014 at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI)

06/02/2013

EHRI partner the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) invites applications for its fellowships for the academic year 2013/2014, beginning October 1, 2013.

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National Jewish Book Award for Laura Jockusch

06/02/2013

The Jewish Book Council, an American organisation, gave the National Jewish Book Award 2012 to Laura Jockusch for her book Collect and Record! Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe, published by Oxford University Press in August 2012.

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An EHRI Workshop in Bad Arolsen: Comparative Studies on Finding Aids as Genre

29/01/2013

Between 17 and 21 December 2012 EHRI partner the International Tracing Service hosted a workshop convened within the framework of the Work Package for Standards and Guidelines of the EHRI project.

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