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!

A fascinating panel on spatial history, remembrance, representation and marginalised voices with (l to r) Dan Stone, Lavinia Munteanu, Jacob Flaws, Janek Gryta and Cailee Davis now in discussion

Starting now, our keynote event for the evening: Professor Deborah Dwork, director of of the CHGCAH at CUNY, in conversation with Professor Dan Stone, director of @rhulholocaustri.bsky.social, chaired by @wienerlibrary.bsky.social Acting Co-Director Dr @ceschmidt.bsky.social !

A lively, engaging, warm and intellectually rich keynote from Prof Debórah Dwork of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity, Graduate Center @cuny.edu this evening, led in conversation by Prof Dan Stone. Thank you, Prof Dwork!

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!

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

We’re hearing now from Mateusz Majman on the memory of survival among mountain Jews in Soviet territory through close, critical reading of testimony

Just heard a very interesting paper on building a history of pink triangle prisoners from the information held by the @arolsenarchives.bsky.social by Royal Holloway PhD Student Lewis Champion, a part of a larger (packed!) panel on the role of digital humanities and AI in Holocaust research!

Hearing now from Oxford University DPhil student Leah Schreiber on Hasidic revival in the displaced person camps, an important and necessary exploration of Jewish religious life in the aftermath of the Holocaust.

Emmanuelle Moscovitz @yadvashem.bsky.social describing the forgotten survivors of French camps, many of them elderly, and the role of chaplain rabbis immediately after the war who assisted them

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.

Thank you to Ambassador Baumann @uk.diplo.de for hosting conference participants and special guests tonight. We had a lovely time continuing the fascinating conversations from the conference and hearing from Ben Barkow, former @wienerlibrary.bsky.social director. Thank you again!

The latest MAVCOR Journal explores the Holocaust, religion and material culture, following an interdisciplinary workshop @ushmm.bsky.social Our co-Director's essay, From the Umschlagplatz to The Wiener Holocaust Library: Maria and Maximillian Wortman’s Last Letters, is online now:

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.

📣 Forthcoming Book Talk! 📍25 Feb, 6:30pm In this talk, Sasha Senderovich will discuss how works by Soviet Jewish writers, and the act of translating them, open new ways of thinking about Holocaust literature, Soviet Jewish history, and the long, uneven afterlives of mass violence

📜 Report of the Jewish Community of Vienna, January– February 1939 This report gives an indication of the impoverishment that Jews in Vienna were experiencing by 1939. The graph shows the huge and very rapid rise in the use of the Jewish Community of Vienna’s soup kitchen in early 1939...

📣 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

📢 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:

Join us next week for our 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

Beyond Camps and Forced Labour is underway! This week's conference will bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are engaged in research on all groups of survivors of Nazi persecution. Discover the full programme here: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/r...

A terrific open access special issue of MAVCOR Journal on tending to Holocaust objects, looking at how Holocaust objects come to be held in archives & museums and examines intimate objects, worn objects, ritual-textuals objects and transitional objects. Read the essays here: tinyurl.com/k6eeuj57

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

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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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