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European Holocaust Research Infrastructure for trans-national Holocaust research, commemoration and education. Tackling the wide dispersal of sources and expertise across Europe and beyond.
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EHRI @ehri-project.eu · Apr 7
What is the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI)? And why? This little animation video explains in only 90 seconds. youtu.be/HR_R0SSMWz0?...
EHRI's Mission and Vision
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DEADLINE 7 DEC | Call for Papers from various EHRI Partners
You can apply for the international #summerschool "Innovative Perspectives on Holocaust Research – Sources, Methods, Tools", held in Warsaw, Poland from 5th until 10th July 2026. @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-partner...
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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First Meeting EHRI-ERIC’s New Advisory Board: Who Are the Members?
We are pleased to introduce the 8 members. New Chair is Dr Edyta Gawron, Institute of Jewish Studies at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow. Vice-Chair is Prof Diana Dumitru, Georgetown University.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Dutch Holocaust researchers had an EHRI-NL meeting at the Memorial Centre Het Apeldoornsche Bosch, a former Jewish Psychiatric Institution, that was brutally cleared by the occupier on the night of 21 to 22 January 1943. www.apeldoornschebosch.nl/en/home
November 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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📢There is still time to apply for the EHRI-UK National Research Fellowships! Deadline 30 November 2025 📅 Please share within your networks. @ehri-project.eu @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @holocaustnorth.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy
November 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Congratulations EHRI-KG (Knowledge Graph)!
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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3 Dec - EHRI Webinar
Topic: Using #AI to Facilitate the Publication of New EHRI Online Editions
Maria Dermentzi will introduce the EHRI Annotator, a web-based tool designed to assist users with entity recognition and linking in multilingual Holocaust-related docs.
www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-webinar...
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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EHRI is represented by Director Reto Speck and User Engagement and Impact Officer Katharina Freise. As a new ERIC, EHRI is glad to take part at the Annual Meeting of #ERICForum.
ericforum.bsky.social ERIC Forum @ericforum.bsky.social · 13d
The #ERICForum Annual Meeting has begun. Two days of discussion, exchange of ideas, and important panels on central topics for #ERICs and the ERA. Tomorrow the election of the new Chair and Vice-Chair. Wishing everyone a great meeting!
November 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Elderly Jews Were Among the Most Likely to Die in the Holocaust. Why Has History Forgotten About the Genocide’s Oldest Victims?

Our latest groundbreaking @hgrporg.bsky.social exhibition is featured in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social 🔗 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/e...
Elderly Jews Were Among the Most Likely to Die in the Holocaust. Why Has History Forgotten About the Genocide's Oldest Victims?
A new exhibition at London's Wiener Holocaust Library spotlights the unique challenges faced by European Jews who were over the age of 55 during World War II
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November 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Tomorrow 12-14 Nov. - In Person or Livestream | International Conference: Visibilities of Memory The Representation of Sinti and Roma in Holocaust Film.
More info and registration (also for Livestream): www.fsa.uni-heidelberg.de/en/filmhub/h...
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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EHRI Network | #Registration #Open for International #Conference at POLIN Museum, Warsaw on 18-20 Nov 2025.
Scholars, educators, and museum professionals examine the growing phenomenon of Holocaust distortion in digital spaces. @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social @yadvashem.bsky.social
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November 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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EHRI-UK is the national node of @ehri-project.eu, an international infrastructure offering access to information on Holocaust-related archival material held in institutions across Europe and beyond, creating a central access point for researchers to collections: portal.ehri-project.eu (3/3)
The EHRI Portal
The EHRI portal offers access to information on Holocaust-related archival material held in institutions across Europe and beyond.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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EHRI-UK (@ehri-uk.bsky.social) are seeking to map the network of archives in the UK which have collections that relate to the Holocaust in their holdings.

Please contact [email protected] by Friday 21 November letting them know your archive name and a rough estimate of the collections you hold (2/3)
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Do you hold collections that relate to the Holocaust, whether that be its prehistory, its aftermath, or the role of antisemitism before, during and after WWII?

The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) are keen to hear from you... (1/3)
A person removing a labelled carboard box from a large row of shelves containing similar cardboard boxes.
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Thank you for having us!
parkesinstitute.bsky.social Parkes Institute @parkesinstitute.bsky.social · 20d
Very nice to see so many people showing up for the annual European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Lecture at the University of Southampton!
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Audience and panelists at the annual EHRI lecture at the university of southampton
November 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Web report | EHRI organised a workshop in Vienna to promote cooperation with related organisations e.g. IHRA, @claims-conference.bsky.social, @fra.europa.eu, Centropa. It was hosted by FRA and VWI, organised by @yadvashem.bsky.social and very inspiring! Read more, www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-multila...
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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EHRI-CZ @ehri-cz.bsky.social | Workshop “New Readings of Holocaust Testimony” offered an inspiring space for exchanging experiences among experts from different disciplines and showcased new ways to connect historical research with technological innovation. www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-cz-work...
October 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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29 Oct. 3PM CET Free EHRI Webinar | “Voices – Letters from the Holocaust”
Join presenters Táňa Klementová and František Floder on the making of "Voices", an innovative audiovisual exhibition that gives life to personal stories of Moravian Holocaust victims. www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-webinar...
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Last month we hosted an event with our former director, Ben Barkow, in conversation with Zoe Waxman, about his publication, Poetry after Auschwitz: Walking in West Cornwall with the Ghost of Great-Aunt Hilde

You can catch up on the event, including fantastic poetry readings, now:
Poetry after Auschwitz – Ben Barkow in conversation with Zoe Waxman
The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host a special event with our former director, Ben Barkow, in conversation with Zoe Waxman, about his newest publication, Poetry after Auschwitz: Walking…
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October 28, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Last week, EHRI Director Reto Speck gratefully accepted the official ERIC plate from the European Commission under the dome of the Copenhagen Planetarium during the RTI Summit 2025. After 15 years of hard work in projects, EHRI-ERIC is here to stay. Thanks to all our partners!
October 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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The Israeli presidency of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and EHRI partner Yad Vashem are inviting recommitment to the Survivors Declaration: israelinihra.mfa.gov.il/survivors_de...
Our Living Legacy: The Survivors' Declaration | Israel in IHRA
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October 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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The new issue of Memoria [EN] No. 96 magazine by @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social has been published.
You can now access it instantly HERE: The new issue of Memoria [EN] No. 96 magazine has been published.
You can now access it instantly HERE: viewer.joomag.com/memoria-en-n...
Memoria [EN] No. 96
New permanent exhibition dedicated to the fate of Poles at KL Auschwitz Industrial park permanently destroys site of former Hirtenberg concentration camp “The Lost Shtetl” IHRA Grant Call Winners 2024...
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October 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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14.10.1943 | Anniversary of the Sobibor Uprising — an act of Jewish resistance that led to the death camp's closure. An Aug. 1944 photo from the demolished site is chilling: it shows the entrance to the "Slauch," the path to the gas chambers. www.sobibor.org/en/unknown-photos-sobibor-from-1944
October 14, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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EHRI #Webinar 29 Oct | “Voices – Letters from the Holocaust”
Join our webinar introducing "Voices", an innovative audiovisual exhibition that gives life to personal stories of Moravian Holocaust victims through their surviving correspondence, @ehri-cz.bsky.social. www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-webinar...
October 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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29 Oct. EHRI Webinar | “Voices – Letters from the Holocaust”
Join our webinar introducing "Voices", an innovative audiovisual exhibition that gives life to personal stories of Moravian Holocaust victims through their surviving correspondence. www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-webinar...
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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EHRI Partner @ushmm.bsky.social | the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is pleased to invite nominations for a new #publication program: New #Research in #Holocaust Studies. It seeks to make cutting-edge Holocaust studies scholarship accessible to a broad audience. www.ushmm.org/research/pub...
October 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM