When teaching about the Holocaust, educators are often asked what & when governments knew about what was happening to Jewish populations in Europe. This week’s Holocaust document blog by Dr Anna Ullrich provides an overview of the EHRI Online Edition ‘Diplomatic Reports’. tinyurl.com/yc3x87ua

Next week we launch a landmark new exhibition! Photos, eyewitness testimony, trial documents and personal letters reveal the crimes of the perpetrators and the individual stories of the victims of the Nazis' ruthless system of enslavement and forced work wienerholocaustlibrary.org/exhibition/n...

The workshop “Between Liberation and a new beginning” (Feb 3—5 2027, Forced Labour Museum Weimar) focuses on sources by former (Jewish) concentration camp prisoners concerning Buchenwald and other displaced persons camps after 1945. Abstracts due June 15 2026. www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

This week’s Holocaust document blog is an examination of the ‘Investigation Files’ of local police in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine and was written by Roman Shliakhtych, Fortunoff Research Fellow at the Wiener Wiesenthal Institute. Read the blog here: blog.ehri-project.eu/2023/04/25/m... #HolocaustResearch

📢 Undergrads researching the Holocaust — want to present at a conference? The BIAHS Postgraduate Conference has an undergraduate panel on 2 June at the University of Southampton. Ask your supervisor to nominate you by 18 May 👇 [email protected] #HolocaustStudies #BIAHS2026

It's almost time for the 6th Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture! Join us at Gresham College for a lecture by Professor Mary Fulbrook: Society and Survival During the Holocaust 📅 May 18, 6 - 8pm 📍 Gresham College, London Sign up to attend in person or online:

Jewish history is closer than you think. 🗺️ Our PhD researcher Immy Tozer has created a digital map revealing Hampshire's hidden Jewish heritage — and the Daily Echo is talking about it. Check it out 👇https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/26082900.digital-map-project-reveals-hampshires-jewish-heritage/

You have until 7 June 2026 to apply to the @ehri-project.eu Conny Kristel Fellowship Programme 2026. The programme is open to applicants at all career stages and particularly welcomes applications from early career practitioners such as PhD students. For more information visit tinyurl.com/5f7y53ms

Huge congratulations to Florine Miez & Dr Johannes Meerwald at @ehri-de.bsky.social, the German National Node of @ehri-project.eu on a great launch event! EHRI-DE have lots of great events and resources coming up, so follow them for news about Holocaust research & training in Germany.

This week’s Holocaust document blog is a new contribution to the EHRI Document Blog as a part of the special series ‘Holocaust in Ukraine’. Read Hannah Abakunova’s account of her personal journey through Holocaust studies in Ukraine here: blog.ehri-project.eu/2026/04/30/s...

This week our Co-Director @ceschmidt.bsky.social is in Vilnius at the Samuel Bak Museum. A panel of international experts discussed how we talk about Jewish heritage and the Holocaust today, engaging audiences, education, and the challenges of working with archives. www.jmuseum.lt/naujienos/sa...

Today’s Holocaust document blog is by Dr Joanna Sliwa and examines ‘Rescue and Parenting through Correspondence’. blog.ehri-project.eu/2020/11/02/r... Through a study of documents, images & oral testimony, this article provides a rare glimpse into the details of a hidden child's rescue arrangements.

Natalie Livingstone writes in @telegraph.co.uk this week about her new book, The Nuremberg Women. She will be at the Library in conversation with Lord Daniel Finkelstein about this fascinating new take on the post-war trials this June. Sign up for your free tickets now: buff.ly/ADnc3HM

"These women interpreted testimonies across multiple languages, assembled prosecution cases, sketched and painted the defendants’ faces, reported the proceedings to a war-weary public and, in some cases, confronted their former oppressors from the witness stand." buff.ly/Tr92ZSs

Our next event is the annual Howard Rein Memorial Lecture. Join @yairwallach.bsky.social (@soasuni.bsky.social) for a talk on 'Ashkenazi Medical professionals in the Arab Middle East: Rethinking the stories we know'. 📍 Hybrid 📅 Tues 5 May, 6pm (BST) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ashkenazi-...

There are only a few days left to view the Eldercide exhibition, open at @wienerlibrary.bsky.social until Thursday 30 April! This exhibition, curated with Prof Dan Stone @rhulholocaustri.bsky.social includes stories and materials from Jews who experienced the Holocaust in their later years

We had a wonderful event last week in Belfast at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social Special Collections & Archives and a great visit to the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland to learn more about their Holocaust collections. Thanks to Deirdre Wildy & Lorraine Bourke for their wonderful hospitality.

Applications for the Conny Kristel Fellowship Programme 2026 are now open! 🎉 Submit yours before midnight on June 7, 2026 and join us as a fellow! #AcademicFellowship #OpenCall

Do you run a #Scouts or #Explorers group? Take over Holocaust Centre North for the day and explore our exhibition, discover how archives are protected, design your own exhibition and more. 📧 Email [email protected] to secure your place #WeAreYouthUnited #YouthUnitedFoundation #HeritageYouthPartnerhsip

Don't miss this call for participants! Closes on Monday 20 April ⬇️⬇️

📢 Call for MA & PhD Participants ⏳You have until Monday 20 April 2026 to apply to Reorienting the Holocaust: A training workshop on digital mapping, historical data, and spatial stories. Participants' travel expenses will be reimbursed. tinyurl.com/fbjc9kpw

This week’s Holocaust document blog ‘Correspondence Across Ghetto Walls’ looks at officially censored postcards addressed from or to the Terezín (Theresienstadt) Ghetto. blog.ehri-project.eu/2018/07/10/c... Thanks to Dr Magdalena Sedlická who authored this article. Image © Jewish Museum in Prague.

📢 EHRI-UK in-person event at Queen's University Belfast Thursday 23 April 2026. 📍 McClay Library Auditorium, Queen's University Belfast, BT7 1LP ⏲️ 13:00-15:30 (with light lunch for registered attendees from 12:00). Register & please share within your networks. www.eventbrite.com/e/ehri-uk-se...

“They wanted to destroy individuals, not just literally but also to remove the memory of them, to completely annihilate them. If we can work to bring names back, I think that is an inherently ethical undertaking. We will never finish the work but I don’t think we should stop trying” buff.ly/TFqBElE

Lottie Reizenstein (1904-1982) was born into an assimilated Jewish family in Nuremberg, Germany. She trained as an artist in Berlin until she fled to London in 1936. It is essential that the candidate is able to read German. @lbilondon.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social @wienerlibrary.bsky.social

📢 Paid student summer placement opportunity (London area)🔊 @brunellibrary.bsky.social Special Collections is hosting a placement on the Heinz Wolff Centenary Project, conducting research into Wolff’s life & career using his archive. ⏳ Apply by Sunday 19 April 2026 ❗ www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-plac...

📢 Paid postgraduate student summer placement opportunity (London area)🔊 Imperial War Museums is hosting a 150-hours summer work placement on activities related to their Holocaust collections at IWM London. ⏳ Apply by Sunday 19 April 2026 ❗ www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-plac...

📢 Paid student summer placement opportunity (Brighton area)🔊 @sussexlibrary.bsky.social is hosting a 150-hour placement for a Digitisation and Discovery Assistant to work with German-Jewish collections at The Keep. ⏳ Apply by Sunday 19 April 2026 ❗ www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-plac...

📢 Paid student summer placement opportunity (London area)🔊 World Jewish Relief (London) is hosting a 150-hours work placement ‘Reuniting Families with Kindertransport Histories’ for a student with strong research and analytical skills. ⏳ Apply by Sunday 19 April 2026❗ www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-plac...

📢 Paid postgraduate student summer placement opportunity (Manchester area)🔊 The Fed My Voice project is hosting a 150-hour placement working on book categorisation and data management. Open to postgraduate students only. ⏳ Apply by Sunday 19 April 2026 ❗ www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-plac...

📢 Paid student summer placement opportunity (Oxford area)🔊 @sofomuseum.bsky.social is hosting a work placement on a project to develop collections relating to the Oxfordshire Yeomanry at the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. ⏳ Apply by Sunday 19 April 2026 ❗ www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-plac...

📢 Paid student summer placement opportunity (Southampton area)🔊 @hartleyspecialc.bsky.social is hosting a work placement curating the archive of a German Jewish refugee. This would particularly suit a student with knowledge of German. ⏳ Apply by Sunday 19 April 2026 ❗ www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-plac...

📢 Paid student summer placement opportunity (London area)🔊 @wienerlibrary.bsky.social is hosting a 150-hours work placement. This would suit a student of Library and Information Studies with some volunteering experience in libraries. ⏳ Apply by Sunday 19 April 2026 ❗ www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-plac...

📢 Paid student summer placement opportunity (London area)🔊 @senatehouselib.bsky.social is hosting a 150-hours work placement to catalogue the Lotte Reizenstein Papers. ⏳ Apply by Sunday 19 April 2026 ❗ www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-plac...

A reminder that students have until Sunday 19 April 2026 to apply to our Regional Placements scheme. Opportunities available in Brighton, London, Manchester, Oxfordshire, and Southampton. For more details and application form visit www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-plac...

This week’s Holocaust document blog is ‘Auditory Experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto’, an investigation into soundscapes documented in testimonies. blog.ehri-project.eu/2024/10/07/a... Image credit: Warsaw Ghetto 1939-1940. National Digital Archives Wydawnictwo Prasowe Kraków-Warszawa 3/2/0/-/6175.

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...