EHRI-PL Call for Papers | International #Conference “Documenting the Holocaust: #Testimonies as Historical Evidence” Date: June 16–17, 2026 | Location: The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, Poland | Language: English | Deadline for applications: March 31, 2026

Only two weeks left to apply to our #APEgrants, all with 28 Feb deadlines:grants for history research and creative work based on archival material + support for archival institutions' digitisation projects www.archivesportaleurope.net/tools/ape-gr... (pic from the Danish Sea Chart Archive)

10 February 1929 | A Polish Jewish girl, Maryla Grinbaum, was born in Krakow. She was imprisoned in KL Plaszow, and in May 1944 she was transferred to Auschwitz. She did not survive. --- 🎧/📖 The development of the mass murder infrastructure at Auschwitz: https://bit.ly/46ryjrT

EHRI #CallForPapers | Transnational Workshop of @ehri-cz.bsky.social and EHRI-AT: Rethinking Holocaust History through Geospatial Approaches 18-19 May 2026 | Venue: Prague, Czech Republic | Deadline for applications: 15 March 2026, submissions in English only. www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-call-fo...

EHRI #JobOpening | EHRI-ERIC Administrative Assistant (based at NIOD Amsterdam). Come join the team at the Central Hub. www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-job-ope...

In Kyjiw ist nun eine Holocaustüberlebende erfroren, wie die @novayagazeta.bsky.social berichtet. Sie lebte zurückgezogen in Podil. Ihren Namen hatte sie im Waisenhaus erhalten, wo man sie abgegeben hatte, als ihre Eltern in Babyn Jar erschossen worden waren: Bezfamilnaja („Ohne Nachnamen“). Sie 1/2

#VACANCY | NIOD is looking for an Administrative Assistant to provide administrative support to EHRI-ERIC's Central Hub team. @ehri-project.eu is a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) and dedicated to support trans-national Holocaust research and documentation. More information. ⤵️

EHRI-CZ @ehri-cz.bsky.social | On #HolocaustMemorialDay2026: Launch of the web applications MemoMaps of Pacov and of Říčany. The interactive MemoMaps of the two Czech towns of Pacov and Říčany explore the fates of the Jewish population during WW2 and beyond. www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-cz-on-h...

Thank you @agatafijalkow.bsky.social for your blogpost! Read it on this #HolocaustMemorialDay2026

If you would like to actively participate in tomorrows Holocaust Memorial Day #HMD2026, EHRI has some suggestions for you, from the US to Poland, from online to in person. Some events are live-streamed; some activities digital; access for all. #IHRA #ESHEM www.ehri-project.eu/holocaust-me...

On the eve of #HMD2026 today's document blog considers Holocaust transports and forced labour in 'Left Behind – A Project Opening up Little-Known Holocaust Histories as well as New Tools' blog.ehri-project.eu/2021/09/29/l... co-authored by Dr Veerle Vanden Daelen & Dorien Styven of Kazerne Dossin.

Today’s featured document blog is Witnessing the Eve of Destruction: Ernő Munkácsi’s “How It Happened”, an examination of the Holocaust in Hungary through a key source which recorded eyewitness accounts. tinyurl.com/y46dhw8b Image credit: © Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives #HMD2026

Our next featured @ehri-project.eu document blog, written by Olga Ştefan, explores the drawings of a young boy transported to Moghilev-Podolsky, his survival and life after the war, and the donation of his art to Yad Vashem. blog.ehri-project.eu/2025/12/17/b... © Yad Vashem, V. Dlugacz #HMD2026

With #HolocaustMemorialDay2026 approaching, we listed some of the (international) activities you can take part in to commemorate the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and the millions of other victims of Nazi persecution. www.ehri-project.eu/holocaust-me...

Are you a researcher or educator working with historical photographs? Read Dr Michal Frankl's @ehri-project.eu document blog 'Photographing refugee deportation: On visual representation of refugees'. blog.ehri-project.eu/2017/01/01/p... #HMD2026 #DigitalHumanities Image ©The Wiener Holocaust Library

Over the next week we'll be featuring articles from @ehri-project.eu document blog. Today's blog is by @ceschmidt.bsky.social Acting Co-Director of @wienerlibrary.bsky.social and is a great resource for researchers & students using Holocaust testimony blog.ehri-project.eu/2019/04/17/h... #HMD2026

EHRI fully supports the content of the open letter that many Holocaust memorial sites and places of learning in Germany and Austria have published on this important issue: “Consistent action against AI-generated Holocaust distortions on social media platforms.” www.ehri-project.eu/open-letter-...

19 January 1902 | A Jewish artist David Olère was born in Warsaw. In 1918 he emigrated to France. In March 1943 he was deported to Auschwitz where he was forced to work in Sonderkommando. After the war he showed the horrifying world of gas chambers in drawings & paintings.

Interesting article from former EHRI CK Fellow @hanagreen.bsky.social en, theconversation.com/for-some-jew...

📢 Vacancy: staff member for Digital Development Our partner Kazerne Dossin (also involved in @ehri-project.eu) is looking for a (Dutch-speaking!) staff member to help shape the organisation’s digital future. 📅 Deadline: apply before 19 January --> kazernedossin.eu/wp-content/u... #vacancy

Start the new year with self-education: Login to the EHRI Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) today! “It Must All be Recorded Without a Single Fact Left Out” features interviews with leading scholars and presents various primary sources – essential for #Holocaust #research. youtu.be/oVlYtfZQaig?...

Beyond Camps and Forced Labor @bcflconference.bsky.social was a great conference in London last week. Many thanks to the organisers! EHRI was present in the panel on Friday about 'Early Holocaust Testimony. Unlocking collections in East-Central Europe'. wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/u...

Kicking off day 3 with a full room for a panel on unlocking early Holocaust testimony in east-central Europe, using digital methods for historical research. Bright and early for computational linguistics and digital humanities!

🚨 We’re hiring! FRA is looking for a Legal Officer to join our team in Vienna. If you’re passionate about #FundamentalRights and want to make a real impact across the EU, this is your chance! 📅 Apply by 19 January 👉 fra.gestmax.eu/852/1/legal-...

📣 Our PhD and a Cup of Tea seminar series continues this term! ➡️ Micro-Geographies of Jewish Life in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940–1943 📅 10 February, 3pm Sonja Mues will discuss her work examining how shifting perceptions of space shaped narratives of everyday life in the Warsaw Ghetto

EHRI-CZ | #Lecture by Alexandra Sczepan: Intimate Cartographies – Maps as Holocaust Testimonies 15 January 2026, 6pm CET | Place: Maisel Synagogue, Maiselova 10, Prague, Czech Republic. www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-cz-lect...

MSCA Fellow Aisling Shalvey of University College Cork now speaking on post-war healthcare experiences of child survivors of the Holocaust, the final paper of four in a thought provoking panel on child survivors!

Good morning, day two of Beyond Camps! Another day full of groundbreaking new research in the field. To start the morning, currently in a panel on “Memory, testimony, and remembrance” hearing from Alisa Miller of Vilnius University on collective memory of the Kovno Ghetto.

Happy to see so many familiar faces from the EHRI network at the @bcflconference.bsky.social conference in London right now. Good luck!

And we begin! Acting Co-Director of the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social Dr @ceschmidt.bsky.social giving the first opening remarks, followed shortly by Professor David Feldman, Director of @bisa-bkk.bsky.social !

Now starting a standing-room only panel on surviving and survivors with Daan de Leeuw’s fascinating paper on social relations of Dutch Jewish slave labourers and their memories of their experiences

This is a fascinating article from Dr Christine Schmidt Deputy Director and Head of Research at @wienerlibrary.bsky.social exploring what the physical qualities of the Wortman letters tell us about the desperate conditions experienced by the letter writers, and how the letters came to be displayed.

Augen Auf Kinotag: Sichert euch jetzt Tickets für das Abendprogramm am 27. Januar 2026 über die teilnehmenden Kinos in Berlin, Dresden, Erfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Rostock und Stuttgart. Im Zentrum steht die Publikumspremiere des Familienfilms DAS GEHEIME STOCKWERK. https://www.augenauf-kinotag.de/

📣 Join us next month for the launch of the RIBA Refugee Committee online database. A result of groundbreaking research, the database will include entries for each one of the individual architects who escaped to the UK from Nazi-occupied Europe, whatever their fate or their stature

Call for Papers EHRI and Clarin | The Second Workshop on Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources (HTRes-2026) Date: 11 May 2026 | Location: Palma de Mallorca, Spain Submission Deadline: 12 February 2026 Apply now: www.ehri-project.eu/call-for-pap...

This year we launched a Regional Placement scheme for students seeking to learn new skills whilst undertaking project work at museums, archives and charities. Read about our placements at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland and @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-2025...

Continuing our #2025roundup of EHRI-UK activities, read about our Regional Placement students' work at Imperial War Museums London and The National Archives. Find out more about their archival research and subscribe for updates on our 2026 scheme. www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-2025...

Day 6 of our #2025roundup and we are sharing our Regional Placements at @wienerlibrary.bsky.social and @warburginstitute.bsky.social where students had the opportunity to work with important Holocaust-related collections brought by Jewish refugees to London. www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-2025...

Two Jewish charities provided placements for students in the EHRI-UK 2025 Regional Placement Scheme. Read about archival discoveries at World Jewish Relief and The Fed (Manchester) www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-2025... and subscribe to our newsletter for new student placement opportunities in 2026.

In the final post of our #2025roundup we reflect that this year @ehri-project.eu officially joined the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance as a Permanent International Partner. Read more about our partnership www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-eric-jo... Best wishes for the New Year from EHRI-UK!

The second in-person meeting of @ehri-project.eu National Coordinators Committee took place at @unisouthampton.bsky.social during November 2025 with delegates from all 11 national nodes. Read more about the meeting in our Winter Newsletter www.ehri-uk.org/_files/ugd/7... #2025roundup

In November 2025 we held our inaugural annual lecture at @parkesinstitute.bsky.social where senior members of @ehri-project.eu discussed ‘Transnational Holocaust Research in a Digital Age’. Subscribe to our newsletter for more news & events in 2026. www.ehri-uk.org/contact-ehri... #2025roundup

EHRI Document Blog | “Boyhood Drawings Made in Deportation” A Discovery of Long-Lost Works Raises Questions About Identity and the Narration of the Self Researcher Olga Stefan discovers that the haunting drawings of a ghetto were made by a 14-year-old boy. blog.ehri-project.eu/2025/12/17/b...

On day three of our #2025round up we remember when members of @ehri-project.eu Implementation Phase (EHRI-IP) gathered in March 2025 at the Croatian State Archives in Zagreb, Croatia, for its General Partners' Meeting. Read more here www.ehri-uk.org/so/c7PLjvAie... and subscribe for news & events.

HEFNU Series: Holocaust Studies and Contemporary Issues "New Research on Treblinka: Landscapes, Evidence, and Memory" Tuesday, January 27, 2026, 11 AM PT/1PM CT/2PM ET Registration is required:  northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Thank you @ehri-uk.bsky.social for sharing this wonderful moment of 2025!

As we light the Hanukkah candles, their glow reminds us of the power of hope and perseverance in dark times. May the light of Hanukkah bring comfort, unity, and the strength to keep shining against hate. Image: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/flipbooks/dr...

16 December 1937 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Max Henri van Son, was born in Rotterdam. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 3 October 1942 in a transport of 1,014 Jews deported from #Westerbork. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

In our 'Spotlight on the EHRI National Nodes' series: EHRI in Austria or EHRI-AT. Find out more about the network and (international) activities of our colleagues in Austria. www.ehri-project.eu/spotlight-on...

These photographs from our collection were taken at a #Hannukah party for children in the Displaced Persons (DP) Camp in Wasseralfingen (now part of Aalen, Baden-Württemberg) in 1949...