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The EHRI Portal offers access to information on Holocaust-related archival material held in institutions across Europe and beyond.
Latest News
- New Post EHRI Document Blog | Martyrs, Mothers, Heroines? (Self-)Representations of Female Concentration Camp Survivors in France, 1945
This new post, written by Hannah Sprute, examines the visual (self-)representation of female political concentration camp survivors in France in the immediate aftermath of liberation. Drawing on press coverage including photos as well as private and studio photographs taken after… Read more: New Post EHRI Document Blog | Martyrs, Mothers, Heroines? (Self-)Representations of Female Concentration Camp Survivors in France, 1945 - Making Connections through the Conny Kristel Fellowship Programme
Silvia Calamai and Laura Miñano-Mañero give insights into their research stay at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies EHRI National Coordinator for Austria, Marianne Windsperger caught up with the two Conny Kristel fellows who stayed at the same time… Read more: Making Connections through the Conny Kristel Fellowship Programme - Spotlight on… the EHRI National Node in Germany: EHRI-DE
In this episode of Spotlight on… we focus on EHRI in Germany, and talk to Johannes Meerwald, National Coordinator. Hi Johannes, you represent EHRI-DE. How big is the German National Node? Until September 2026, six institutions have joined the node. The Leibniz… Read more: Spotlight on… the EHRI National Node in Germany: EHRI-DE
Latest Events
- Call for Papers Lessons & Legacies Europe | De-Centering Holocaust Studies
International Conference on the Holocaust | 1-5 November 2027 (Monday-Friday) | Bucharest, Romania | Submission Deadline is December 14, 2026 The third Lessons and Legacies Europe Conference will gather in Bucharest, Romania. Sponsored by the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern… Read more: Call for Papers Lessons & Legacies Europe | De-Centering Holocaust Studies - EHRI Network | Call for Papers: The Bricha Movement and Jewish Displacement in Postwar Europe (1944–1948)
June 28-29 | Location: NY Prague, Czech Republic | Deadline for applications: 30 January 2027 Organisers: The Diana and Eli Zborowski Center for the Study of the Aftermath of the Holocaust, Yad Vashem; the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center… Read more: EHRI Network | Call for Papers: The Bricha Movement and Jewish Displacement in Postwar Europe (1944–1948) - EHRI Seminar in Austria | Victims. Perpetrators. Data. Entity, Identity, and Documentation in Holocaust Research and Remembrance
Final Programme is available 28-30 September 2026 | Former Synagogue St. Pölten, Austria This transnational seminar is dedicated to the methodological and ethical reorientation of Holocaust research in the digital age. The central question is how the historical identities of… Read more: EHRI Seminar in Austria | Victims. Perpetrators. Data. Entity, Identity, and Documentation in Holocaust Research and Remembrance
EHRI Podcast
A new season of the EHRI Podcast For the Living and the Dead: Traces of the Holocaust is launched on Wednesday 5 August 2026.
The fourth season of the EHRI Podcast series For the Living and the Dead. Traces of the Holocaust features 7 new episodes around the theme Roma and the Holocaust. New podcast host Lovro Kralj – EHRI Reseach and Content Officer – interviews experts who share their insights while narrating the story of a person or object that really took their breath away.
We are growing
From a series of projects, EHRI has changed into an ERIC, a European Research Infrastructure Consortium, and an organisation with a permanent character. Thus, EHRI will grow and even more institutions can join.
EHRI Document Blog
The EHRI Document Blog is a space to share ideas about Holocaust-related archival documents, and their presentation and interpretation using digital tools. It is open to contributions from researchers, archivists and others from the broad field of Holocaust studies and digital humanities. Since the start of the Document Blog in January 2016, well over a 100 articles have been posted.