Check out the wonderful @hartleyspecialc.bsky.social, home to the Parkes archive and library! Find out more: southampton.ac.uk/research/ins... #Archive30 #YourArchive

Are you a postgraduate student with a demonstrable interest in the history of the Holocaust and research experience? Imperial War Museums are hosting a EHRI-UK Regional Placement at IWM London researching Holocaust collections. For more information visit www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-plac...

We have a very exciting opportunity for a student placement at World Jewish Relief (London) this summer researching Kindertransport records. Visit our webite for more information on eligibility. www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-plac... ⏳Applications close on 19 April 2026

Are you a student who would benefit from a summer placement working with the world's oldest and Britain's largest collection of original archival material on the Nazi era and the Holocaust at @wienerlibrary.bsky.social ? Visit www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-plac... for more information on eligibility.

We are pleased to announce our first EHRI-UK student placement at @sofomuseum.bsky.social this summer on a research project about the Oxfordshire Yeomanry at the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen. Visit www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-plac... for more information on eligibility. ⏳Applications close 19 April 2026.

Are you a Manchester-based student with a demonstrable interest in the history of the Holocaust who could bring your skills to a placement involving research & data management? The Fed's My Voice Project is hosting an EHRI-UK placement this summer. Find out more www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-plac...

We are very excited to announce a summer 2026 student placement at @brunellibrary.bsky.social Special Collections working on the Heinz Wolff Centenary Project. Visit www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-plac... for more details on eligibility. ⏳The deadline for applications is Sunday 19 April 2026.

We are pleased to announce a student placement at the wonderful @sussexlibrary.bsky.social working on German-Jewish archives held at The Keep. For more information on eligibility visit www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-plac... ⏳The deadline for applications is Sunday 19 April 2026.

We are pleased to share an exciting student placement opportunity at @senatehouselib.bsky.social cataloguing the Lotte Reizenstein Papers. Visit our website for more details on eligibility www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-plac... ⏳The deadline for applications is Sunday 19 April 2026.

Are you a student with an interest in the history of German refugees in the 1930s and 1940s? EHRI-UK is offering a student placement with the terrific team at @hartleyspecialc.bsky.social curating a refugee archive. For more information on eligibility visit www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-plac...

Here's a more unusual profession from the papers of the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund. This individual, originally from Poland and who arrived in the UK in June 1940 from Paris, records that he had previously worked as a "raincoats-sticker" (i.e. he made raincoats)

A new camp case study via #TheHolocaustExplained Treblinka was the second most deadly extermination camp for Jews, behind Auschwitz-Birkenau: only 150 survived the camp. This case study examines conditions there, the prisoner uprising in 1943, and the camp's closure 🔗

This week we are pleased to share a new Holocaust document blog: Disentangling and Presenting Person Data in the Online Collection ‘Wiedergutmachung for National Socialist Injustice’. blog.ehri-project.eu/2026/03/30/p... Our thanks to Nastasja Pilz & Inger Banse-Strobel, who co-authored this post.

This week’s Holocaust document blog is ‘Tracing the Dislocation of a Sinti Family in a Genocidal Context: the R165 Collection of the German Federal Archives’ by Théophile Leroy, a 2022 @ehri-project.eu Conny Kristel Fellow. blog.ehri-project.eu/2022/11/02/t...

In case you missed it... A new book launched this month, Older Jews and the Holocaust: Persecution, Displacement, and Survival, which offers new insights into the experiences of elderly Jews during the Holocaust. It is available to purchase online now via our book shop:

Have you caught up on our latest Archivist in the Spotlight blog yet? Join Cassy Sacher, Senior Librarian @leobaeckcollege.bsky.social on the journey of creating their new reading room. Read it here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/archivi... #ICYMI #Archives #JewishCulture #Libraries #Blog

⏳A reminder that you have until Sunday 19 April 2026 to apply to the EHRI-UK Regional Placement Scheme taking place this summer. 💻 For more information on eligibility and how to apply visit www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-plac... 📢The application form can be found here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1RIl...

Call for Applications | Great opportunity for early-career Holocaust researchers! Free seminar to strengthen your subject expertise, expand your network, engage with leading scholars. By IHRA, @yadvashem.bsky.social, @uscshoahfoundation.bsky.social and EHRIs MOOC. www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-network...

📢 EHRI Webinar | 15 April | 3PM CET Mauthausen Memorial has relaunched its collections database: photography, oral history, artefacts and more are now openly accessible with no registration needed. Join this free webinar for a behind-the-scenes look! 🔗 Details + Zoom link: #Archives #OpenAccess

We have exciting news to share! Applications for our 2026 EHRI-UK Regional Placement Scheme for students are now open. We have nine terrific organisations offering placements. Visit our website to find out about eligibility and how to apply. www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-plac... Image: © IWM (D 8792)

"Behind the doors of a handsome Georgian townhouse overlooking leafy Russell Square is the world's oldest collection of material on the Nazi era, an immense archive tracing the rise of the far right and its heinous crimes " We're in Londonist's guide to free museums in the capital!

Thrilled and honoured to be taking up this post together with Barbara. We’re looking forward to leading @wienerlibrary.bsky.social through its next, exciting chapter! With many thanks to our Trustees, staff and friends for their support and confidence in us.

"While this is the first instance of women taking the top job at the library, its archive has long benefited from the efforts of female researchers..." Find out more about an exciting new appointment at the Library via @jewishchron.bsky.social today! www.thejc.com/community/wo...

How has the Kindertransport shaped British culture and memory? Join the Leo Baeck Institute and the British-German Association for an online roundtable. 🗓 19 March 2026 🕖 19:00 – 20:00 💻 Online via Zoom Attendance is free of charge. Register now: lbilondon.ac.uk/kindertransport-2026

Consider applying to the Conference Grant Programme of the European Association of Jewish Studies - details below. Deadline 26 March 2026

📣 It is with great excitement that we announce the appointment of Dr Barbara Warnock and Dr Christine Schmidt as Co-Directors of the Wiener Holocaust Library! Bringing a combined 23 years' experience to their new role, they take the helm at a crucial time.. Full announcement🔗

This week’s Holocaust document blog is a study of the historiography of Babi Yar by Maryna Mykhailiuk which examines historical analysis of perpetrator records, trial materials, eyewitness accounts and collections of memoirs. blog.ehri-project.eu/2025/02/10/h... #Ukraine #HolocaustResearch

In this 2021 blog, Heritage Consultant Rachel Howse Binnington explains how to sort through family papers you may have found in a clear-out, how best to take care of them and where to find help. Read it here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/what-to... #FamilyArchives #SpringCleaning #Archives

Register now for EHRI-UK's first event in Northern Ireland📢 Holocaust-related and Jewish refugee collections at Queen’s University Belfast Special Collections & Archives 📅 23 April 2026, 13:00-15:30 📍 McClay Library Auditorium QUB, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK tinyurl.com/2z3h8bay

📢Call for participants - Reorienting the Holocaust: A training workshop on digital mapping, historical data, and spatial stories 📅 Tuesday 2 June 2026 (9.00-17.00; in person) 📍 Location: The Digital Humanities Hub University of Southampton, UK ⏳ Apply by 10 April tinyurl.com/yhzv58hf

📢 Call for papers: Holocaust Heritage in the 21st century 📅 7-8 September 2026 📍 Location: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and online, University of Cambridge ⏳ Deadline: 1 May 2026 tinyurl.com/2zdebm6r

This week's Holocaust document blog features the Norwegian Digital Prisoner Archive 1940–1945 (Fanger.no). This open-access database documents nearly 50,000 individuals imprisoned during the Second World War in and beyond occupied Norway. Find out more here: blog.ehri-project.eu/2026/02/27/n...

ESHEM (European #Sites of #Holocaust #Memory) will hold an online Q&A meeting on 5 March at 2:00-3:00 PM CET to present their call in detail and answer any questions you may have. Please register for the meeting here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/58f062...

There are still a handful of tickets available for our benefit concert this Thursday evening! World-renowned pianist and conductor, Sir András Schiff, is performing a benefit concert for the Library, with all the funds raised from the concert directly supporting our vital work

The Leo Baeck Institute London is pleased to announce the programme for its 2026 Lecture Series: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/02...

PhDs and ECRs are invited to join our next PhD and a Cup of Tea Online seminar! 📍 Jewish slave labour and the SS concentration camp system through a spatial lens - Part of our latest series, Spatial Histories of the Holocaust 📅 March 10, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm 💻 Online Book now: buff.ly/KLkfgTa

Thankyou to the British Embassy and the Jewish community of Helsinki for inviting Gathering the Voices to come and talk about our digital archive. We had a wonderful visit

Hansi Finkler emigrated from Austria to England in early March 1939 on a domestic service visa. Her daughter, Evelyn, had come to England in 1938 where she stayed at the 'Haven' hostel in Camden Town. She reunited with her mother in the early 1940s, and they lived in a bedsit in West London...

📢 Call for Papers: From Sea to Memory: The Sinking of the Tanaïs and Holocaust Remembrance 📅 11-13 July 2026 📍 Location: Evlagon Institute for Cretan Jewish Studies (Crete, Greece) ⏳ Abstract submission deadline for individual papers: 31 March 2026 networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

PhDs and ECRs are invited to join our next PhD and a Cup of Tea Online seminar! 📍 Jewish slave labour and the SS concentration camp system through a spatial lens - Part of our latest series, Spatial Histories of the Holocaust 📅 March 10, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm 💻 Online Book now: buff.ly/KLkfgTa

In February 1941, there was a general strike across Holland as Dutch people stood up in protest against a series of Nazi pogroms and arrests of Dutch Jews in Amsterdam. The strike was organised by the banned Communist Party and approximately 300,000 people joined the strike...

Tomorrow: @returnstosender.bsky.social's talk at UCL about his and Harriet Murav's new @stanfordpress.bsky.social collection of Soviet stories about the Holocaust. Free event, registration required. Attendees can also purchase the book with a nice discount.

From our Network | Call for Papers: Holocaust Heritage in the 21st century | 7-8 Sep, Cambridge Conference and resulting handbook want to document the state of Holocaust and Roma genocide sites, showcase good practice, and draw attention to the loss of others. www.ehri-project.eu/from-our-net...

Congratulations Kelsey!

𝐇𝐔𝐆𝐄 congratulations👏👏👏 to our very own Kelsey Akers on being accepted as an @ehri-project.eu . Kelsey will spend some time at @wienerlibrary.bsky.social and @holocaustnorth.bsky.social working closely with curators and subject experts to advance her Holocaust research.

"The Holocaust was not only perpetuated by ideologues but also carried out through bureaucratic means.” Our acting Co-Director @ceschmidt.bsky.social spoke to @nytimes.com for this fascinating feature out today ➡️ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/w...

This week's document blog features Eva Strusková’s article ‘Lotte Porges – The Story Behind the Photograph’. Read the article here blog.ehri-project.eu/2018/05/08/l... to find out more about Lotte's life and the dispersed & fragmented archival material documenting the Terezín ghetto.

Next month our Senior Archivist is joining a roundtable discussion @lbilondon.bsky.social, Kindertransport in British Memory and Culture The event will bring together scholars and practitioners to examine the Kindertransport through archives, testimony, and reflective practice 🔗

Are you using diaries or other autobiographical documents in your Holocaust research? This week’s document blog looks at the diary of Pinus Rubinstein, a Holocaust survivor, who lived with his family in Cernăuți, the second largest city in Romania. blog.ehri-project.eu/2024/03/25/p...

Congratulations and good luck to our friends @leobaeckcollege.bsky.social who are opening their new reading room this week. We'll have more about it in our next Archivist in the Spotlight but in the meantime, find out about their library collection here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/archives/leo...