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.

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...

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...

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...

🎥 Catch up now on the Curators Roundtable that accompanies our current exhibition, Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust Curators Christine Schmidt, Dan Stone, and Roxy Moore explored the untold history of the experiences of elderly Jews during and after the Holocaust Watch now:

The Leo Baeck Institute London, together with its partners, is pleased to announce the 2025-26 cohort of Leo Baeck Fellows, a new group of outstanding doctoral researchers working on the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2025/12...

Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust is open at the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social until 5pm on 23rd December and will reopen after the holidays on Monday 5 January at 10am. Explore this meaningful exhibition to learn more about the experiences of older Jews during and after the Holocaust.

Hanukkah Sameach! For the fifth night of Hanukkah, University of Leeds Library Special Collections have got some party invites for us 🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯 📷 Leeds Jewish History #Hanukkah #Archives

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.

In the 2nd post of our #2025roundup we’re sharing an event from February when our Director, Dr Rachel Pistol, was invited to give a speech at a conference to celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Stockholm Declaration. Read more & subscribe to our newsletter. www.ehri-uk.org/so/c7PLjvAie...

Over the next 2 weeks we will be sharing some highlights from 2025. First, we remember how @ehri-project.eu was inaugurated as a permanent European Research Infrastructure Consortium during a ceremony at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland www.ehri-uk.org/so/c7PLjvAie...

Join us for our upcoming Community workshop, Connect & Create: Recall 🎶 In this creative, family-friendly session, we’ll explore how music, memory, and place shape feelings of belonging, community, and home. Reserve your place here: bit.ly/4ptFHdj

"Memories of the Kindertransport and now the plight of the desperate youngsters is being told again through a moving exhibition at Lowestoft railway station. A Thousand Kisses shares the experiences of eight children who escaped Nazi persecution" www.lowestoftjournal.co.uk/news/2568227...

We are happy to advertise the international Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme 2026/2027 (German academic year October 2026-September 2027). More information and how to apply: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/fellowship @dubnow.bsky.social

In our web series "Spotlight on...", we would like you to meet EHRI in Poland - EHRI-PL: www.ehri-project.eu/spotlight-on...

Have you read our second Archivist in the Spotlight blog yet? We spoke to Edoardo Marcarini about cataloguing the collections at the Jewish Music Institute. From boxes in a shipping container to discovering audio treasures, read the blog here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/archivi... #ICYMI

📢 We’re recruiting a Curatorial Officer @ Holocaust Centre North. We are seeking an enthusiastic and organised Curatorial Officer to support the running of our Memorial Gestures artist residency programme. 📩 Apply now via holocaustcentrenorth.org.uk/about/opport... 📅 Deadline: Tuesday Jan 6th 2026

Our permanent exhibition, Through Our Eyes, shares the personal journeys of 16 Holocaust survivors and refugees with connections to our local community, told within the wider context of the Holocaust and WWII. 📍Free to visit and open to all on campus at @huddersfielduni.bsky.social 📷 Alex Beldea

On 2nd December, 1938, the first Kindertransport arrived. This document is from the AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Archive. Unusually, Kurt Marx was sent with his school thanks to their headteacher. Read more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/ki... #WWII #JewishHistory #Archives

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...

📸 B. Birnbach, Jews on the Hungarian-Czechoslovak border, November 1938 This photo is one of a set held by the Library depicting some of the Jews who were deported by far-right Slovak militias and the Hungarian authorities to a newly established Hungarian-Czechoslovak border region in 1938...

I'll be talking about Janowska and the #VisualizingJanowska project this Thursday as I am honored to be giving the Aubrey Newman Lecture at the @uolsbc.bsky.social in Leicester! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2025-s...

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Community is at the heart of our work at Holocaust Centre North. Our Community Programme brings people together through creative, family-friendly workshops each month, offering a welcoming space to connect, learn, and try something new. Keep an eye out for our Winter programme❄️

Our friends Jewish History Association of South Wales are expanding their scope to the whole of Wales and have plenty of new projects celebrating Welsh Jewish heritage. Find out more: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/the-jew... #JewishHistory #JewishCulture #Archives #Wales #NewBlogPost

The next Archivist in the Spotlight blog is coming next week, so catch up on the first. Join Project Archivist, Frankie Drummond Charig, to hear about a project cataloguing Jewish material in Sheffield: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/archivi... #ICYMI #JewishHistory #LocalHistory #Archives

NEW Episode is live! How did Jews feel about their persecutors during the Holocaust? How do we know? In this episode, I talked with Amy Shapiro Simon about her fascinating work on ghetto diaries and these questions. thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

📢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

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)

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)

Contact us to tell us about the wonderful collections you hold!

Interested in deepening your knowledge of the Holocaust? Want to find out more about the MA Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage and about the scholarships we offer? 🔗 www.southampton.ac.uk/parkes/news/...

Thanks for having us! A really great discussion on Transnational Approaches to Holocaust Research in a Digital Age

The Second Call for EHRI-UK National Research Fellowships is live 📅 Apply by 30 Nov 2025 Find out more 👇 www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-fell... @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @hgrporg.bsky.social @holocaustnorth.bsky.social @biahs1.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social

CFP - Crossing Borders: Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents - 14 April 2026 We're pleased to invite proposals for this upcoming one-day conference at the University of Southampton! Please share!!

Join EHRI-UK representative, Simone Gigliotti, at her talk at @parkesinstitute.bsky.social in #Southampton tomorrow. Find out more 👇

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!

The Wiener Holocaust Library stands in solidarity with Britain’s Jewish community after yesterday's horrific attack targeting Jews on Yom Kippur. Our thoughts are with the families of Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz, the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation & all who have been affected by these events.

Are you an MA or PhD student working on 20th-century European History or Holocaust studies? Join us for a digital skills workshop to discover highlights from the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social collections!

Great part-time job offer for those based in the UK!

We're hiring! EHRI-UK Project Assistant - remote work w/ some travel @wienerlibrary.bsky.social Part time (0.4-0.5FTE depending on candidate). Initially 9 months but anticipating extension. Perfect for #PhD students - spread the word! Closing date 26/09/25 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/s...

Our travelling exhibitions cover subjects including Kristallnacht, the Kindertransport, and the fight against antisemitism from the 19th century to today They're available to hire now so these remarkable stories from our archive can pop-up in your school, university, or workplace! 🔗

Excellent opportunities for Holocaust researchers, archivists, librarians, curators and relevant professionals: EHRI-ERIC Call for Applications: Conny Kristel #Fellowship Programme 2025. Access to 22 Holocaust archives and institutions in 9 countries. Apply: www.ehri-project.eu/conny-kriste...

80 Years after #WO2, the "Windermere children" have received a memorial garden in the UK. It commemorates the time spent in the Lake District by 300 young Holocaust survivors. Would you like to know their story? Listen to the EHRI #podcast "A Place in Paradise". www.ehri-project.eu/podcast-epis...

What was life like living next to a death camp? In Spaces of Treblinka, a new work by Jacob Flaws, he explains how Treblinka’s mass murder was well known to the nearby townspeople who experienced the sights, sounds, smells, people, bodies, and train cars the camp ejected into the surrounding world

EHRI #Jobopening |📣The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure and @niodamsterdam.bsky.social are looking for a versatile SOFTWARE DEVELOPER to contribute to a variety of platforms for the exploration of historical materials, esp. @graphiaproject.bsky.social❗ www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-job-ope...

Conny Kristel Fellowships - deadline 28 September 2025. providing short term research access to 21 institutions in 9 countries. More information & to apply www.ehri-project.eu/conny-kriste... @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @hgrporg.bsky.social @holocaustnorth.bsky.social

EHRI-UK National Research Fellowships are designed to support and stimulate Holocaust research conducted by researchers, archivists, librarians, curators, and early career scholars! Deadline for applications is this Wednesday 23 July Find out more 🔗 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/2025/06/20/e...

📣JOB ALERT📣 Are you passionate about data and making a difference in the public sector? The National Archives is looking for a talented data specialist to transform archival metadata bringing history to life. Application deadline 29 July 2025. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS940/r... #digitalhumanities