EHRI Newsletter - January 2020
 
EHRI Present at Forum Z Event in Luxembourg on Holocaust History and Memory
14/01/2020

On the 5th of February, EHRI will be present at the ForumZ event Holocaust History and Memory, organised by the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH). ForumZ (Z for “Zeitgeschichte”, contemporary history) is a public platform for a critical and open discussion of current issues in contemporary Luxembourgish and European history. Interested citizens are invited to debate with experts about selected (society-related) topics, new approaches and new sources in contemporary history. ForumZ as well as EHRI are both engaged in bringing history beyond the university walls and into the public sphere.

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Remembering the Holocaust: EHRI Online Course in Holocaust Studies
14/01/2020

This month 75 years ago the KZ Auschwitz was liberated. On the 27th this will be commemorated at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau. The same date was also chosen as Holocaust Memorial Day. Many EHRI-partners will organise their own events to pay special attention to this day.

Survivors of the Holocaust to testify are dwindling in number and new generations will feel further removed from the event. Therefore it is more important than ever to keep the memory and the study of the Holocaust alive. We hope that the resources and tools that EHRI has been and still is developing will play a vital role in the future of Holocaust research, commemoration and education.

One of the main resources is the EHRI Online Course in Holocaust Studies, which provides teachers, lecturers, students, and the general public as a whole with source materials, in the original languages and in English translation, and background information in order to give them an overview on recent trends in historiography.

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EHRI in 2020
14/01/2020

Dear Readers,

2019 has been an exciting year for EHRI. The second project phase was successfully concluded, and we marked this milestone with two major international conferences on Holocaust Studies that took place on 2 and 3 July in Amsterdam.

We also received the welcome news of further EU funding to transform EHRI from a project into a permanent European Research Infrastructure. We will develop EHRI into a permanent entity in the context of the EHRI Preparatory Phase (EHRI-PP) project which started in December 2019 and will run until November 2022.

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New EHRI Blog: Spatial Queries and the First Deportations from Slovakia
17/12/2019

The latest EHRI Document Blog post by Michal Frankl (from the Masaryk Institute and Archives at the Czech Academy of Sciences) gives an insight into bringing data together and using spatial queries for a better understanding of the background and migration trajectories of the approximately four thousand Jews deported from Slovakia in November 1938.

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New Online Course on Analysing Datasets with Examples Based on Holocaust Research
04/12/2019

The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure has developed, among its Online Courses, a Swirl-based online learning environment based on the R programming language. Each course lesson is devoted to a single topic, providing examples, exercises, self-assessment questions and references.

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EHRI Collection of Digital Tools Guides
20/11/2019

Team members of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) from King’s College London and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum have created a series of guides to help researchers of the Holocaust and other related fields use digital tools in their research.

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