Our next lecture is the annual Montefiore Lecture. This year, we're delighted to welcome Hindy Najman (orieloxford.bsky.social) for a talk titled 'Scriptural Vitality and the Shaping of Jewish Tradition'. 🗓️ Tues 3 March, 6:00 pm GMT 📍 Avenue Campus & online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scriptural...

Lotte Jaslowitz trained as a barrister at Lincolns Inn, and was called to the bar on 10 February 1959. Documents from the Jaslowitz family papers collection, in our archive and available to view via our interactive #RefugeeMap, tell the full story... 📍 buff.ly/ij3wl4v

Have you encountered early postwar graphic albums created by Holocaust survivors? Read about Rachel E. Perry's research into the artist Elżbieta Nadel's ‘Black Album’ and find out about the work of other Polish women artists. blog.ehri-project.eu/2023/07/04/e...

There's still time to apply to the Royal Holloway, University of London 10-day residential Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization 2026. For more information visit tinyurl.com/5be6u2z5

Happening tomorrow!

Happening next week! Don't miss your chance to hear Michael Moritz in conversation with Daniel Finkelstein about this fascinating new book... Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-talk-...

📢 Exciting opportunity for ECRs & postgrads! Applications are open for 'Holocaust Studies: Navigating the Field', a one-day networking event for ECRs & postgrads at the Imperial War Museum on 26 May 2026. More details below, apply by 31 March ⬇️

The German-Jewish Archives at the University of Sussex have collections that show the political, social, literary and intellectual German-Jewish history with a focus on Jewish refugees in the UK during and after WW2. Find out more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/archives/ger... #Archives

There's a handful of spaces available for ECRs and PhDs to attend next week's online seminar! Book your place here: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/phd-an...

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...

Two important #CallForPapers for researchers working in Holocaust studies: Rethinking Holocaust History through Geospatial Approaches (18-19 May, Prague) & Documenting the Holocaust: Testimonies as Historical Evidence (16-17 June, Warsaw) www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Image ©IWM D 25288

My team are looking for a new team leader and Modern Britain (post-1782) specialist. Closes 22nd February and do get in touch if you have any questions www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ050/t...

The recording of the Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture is now available to watch. youtu.be/bnOpAAIJfoA?... Many thanks to our partners @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @igdjhh.bsky.social, and the presenters @drhannahw.bsky.social, @Deborah Jaffé & @svenjabethke.bsky.social

Tickets are selling fast for our 5th March benefit concert, with only a handful of the best seats still available! Join us for an evening of classical music and and support our vital work: buff.ly/sdyY4Ey

Are you a researcher, archivist or educator working with materials relating to the lives of Holocaust survivors after the end of the Second World War? This week's featured blog looks at the formation & advocacy work of the Austrian Concentration Camp Association. blog.ehri-project.eu/2019/05/15/c...

📣 Forthcoming free afternoon talk! 18 February, 3 - 4:30pm In Search of Amnesia is a documentary project looking into the Jewish narrative in Poland and Ukraine. Through this new book Falk traced both his own personal family history and the collective loss Tickets 🔗

For families separated by deportations and flight, letters were often the only means of keeping in touch. Franz Kuhn wrote to his daughter’s guardian Millie Levy, 4 February 1943...

Please join us for a talk with Noëmie Duhaut @duhaut.bsky.social for the Annual Karten Lecture 🗓️ Tuesday 10 February, 6:00 pm GMT 📍 Avenue Campus & Online 🔗https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/legal-actors-and-the-making-of-jewish-internationalism-tickets-1980464745366?aff=bluesky

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop of EHRI‑CZ and EHRI‑AT: Rethinking Holocaust History through Geospatial Approaches Date: 18–19 May 2026, Prague Czech Republic Deadline for Applications: 15 March 2026 Submissions: English only Notifications of Acceptance: 30 March 2026 www.ehri.cz/news/rethink...

In a forthcoming talk, Sasha Senderovich will discuss how writings by Jewish authors after the devastation of the Holocaust on Soviet territory open new ways of thinking about Holocaust literature, Soviet Jewish history, and the long afterlives of mass violence Tickets:

Prof. Neil Gregor explores “Where did all the Nazis go?” at Farnborough Sixth Form College’s Enrichment series.

Thrilled to see our beautiful book, Holocaust Letters, out soon from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social! With huge thanks to my amazing co-editors @sandralipner.bsky.social @charlieknight.bsky.social & Clara Dijkstra. Launching soon @wienerlibrary.bsky.social: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-l...

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...

We know powerful educational & commemorative initiatives, events & experiences took place today in schools to mark HMD, & more will follow across the week. A flavour of the range of engagement across our Beacon Schools network includes: Demeter House, Healing Academy, MEA & Lawn Manor Academy 1/2

Yiddish was spoken by 5 million of the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. Yiddish is an absolutely crucial language for Holocaust research. This Holocaust Memorial Day, you can support Yiddish at universities facing cuts to the Humanities, including UCL. 🧵 1/4

🚨New blog post!🚨 Learn more about #Hampshire’s #Jewish community in this piece by Immy Tozer, who writes about the Historic Jewish Hampshire project as part of her fellowship with with @parkesinstitute.bsky.social ⬇️ hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/stories/blog...

First, opening remarks from our Director, Professor James Jordan after a welcome from the Mayor of Southampton #HMD #HolocaustMemorialDay

A testimony from our collection describes the reaction to this escape: ‘When the news of the escape spread round the camp all the prisoners were full of joy and hope, knowing that the aim of the escape was to proclaim to the whole world the news of what was happening in the camp.’ buff.ly/a7khsra

Mala Zimetbaum was a Jewish woman born in Brzesko in Poland, on 26 January 1918. In 1944, Zimetbaum staged a daring escape from Auschwitz. She was later caught, tortured and hanged. 📸 Mala Zimetbaum, via Wikimedia Commons. 📸 Anonymous report on Mala Zimetbaum, Wiener Holocaust Library Collections

"My first stop was the Wiener Holocaust Library. For a week I went through stacks of documents detailing the lives of my mother’s mother’s family... It comforted me to think that the tug I’d felt toward journalism was evidence I really belonged to the family I’d lost"

For Holocaust Memorial Day, the extraordinary story of Peter Kien, the Jewish artist who depicted life in the Theresienstadt Ghetto and the 55 year-long battle to retrieve them. His artworks will now be held by the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/article/517f...

An exciting new acquisition for our archive, donated by the daughter of a survivor who saved hundreds of artworks by a notable Czech polymath. Peter Kien's life was cut short by the Holocaust, now his work will be preserved for future generations... @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...

The Leave to Land panels going up now for HMD 2026. There are 10 panels in all, plus copies of The Kitchener Times with further articles and information about the rescue. Available to hire for your school, hall, event @wienerlibrary.bsky.social

On Holocaust Memorial Day, TNA have published this fascinating article written by Anna Brady, one of our placement students, supported by @ehri-uk.bsky.social www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

To close our week of Holocaust document blogs. today we share an article written by Anna Brady, one of our Regional Placement students, reflecting on her research on Colonial Office records at The National Archives. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-... HMD2026 #HolocaustResearch

Today, EHRI-UK marks Holocaust Memorial Day and we commemorate the six million Jewish men, women and children murdered during the Holocaust, and the millions more murdered under Nazi persecution. www.ehri-project.eu/holocaust-me...

Today, on #HolocaustMemorialDay, we remember the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, the millions more murdered under Nazi persecution, as well as all those who have been persecuted during genocides worldwide buff.ly/tuqqfvy

‘I will finish your work’: one woman’s fight for the Jewish art and letters her mother saved from the Nazis

📢Last call to get tickets for Southampton's Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day 2026 event tomorrow evening. To join us, sign up using the link below: 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southampto...

The theme for tomorrow's Holocaust Memorial Day is Bridging Generations. This photograph, held by @holocaustnorth.bsky.social, shows Berta Klipstein and her grandmother in Bielska, Poland, 1935. Find out more about her experiences here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/be... #Archives #HMD

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.

Despite her ill-health and starved condition, Margarete Wiener managed to convince officials that she was well enough to travel On the train, she fell asleep and did not wake up. She was pronounced dead in hospital in Kreutzlingen on 25 January 1945. 🔗 buff.ly/9RgyHnF

📣 Forthcoming book talk! 25 March, 6:30 - 8pm The @hgrporg.bsky.social is delighted to host Prof Alan Kramer in conversation with Prof Dan Stone about his new work, Concentration Camps: A Global History, a ‘global and comprehensive history of a modern institution of inhumanity.’

"...while searching for family records in Dąbrowa-Górnicza, Poland, Fox learned her mom had spent four-and-a-half years in Gabersdorf, a labor camp that became a concentration camp in what was then Czechoslovakia." @forward.com forward.com/culture/film...

Newly digitised and available online, an important periodical from our collection, Jewish news: a bulletin issued by our predecessor organisation, it is a crucial account of the Holocaust as it unfolded from the perspective of an active anti-Nazi institution. Discover now:

📢 Join us at the Library next month for the launch of the RIBA Refugee Committee online database! This new research hub details the lives and works of the more than 200 refugees from Nazi-occupied Central Europe who were assisted by the RIBA Refugee Committee Tickets:

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...

Read about the important collections of the Documentation Centre of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW) in today's featured document blog 'Messages from the Ghetto – Viennese transports to the General Government in early 1941' by Wolfgang Schellenbacher & Christa Mehany-Mitterrutzner tinyurl.com/54hacnrc