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International conference "Transformations of Shoah Trauma in Post-2000 Literatures" 5–6 November 2025, Palacký University, Olomouc
The conference will present the perspectives of researchers from around the world on how the narrative of the Shoah and its image in cultural memory have been transformed since the year 2000.
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18th annual festival Days of Jewish Culture Olomouc 5–15 November 2025, Olomouc
The festival, titled “Never Again!?”, takes place from November 5–15, 2025. The opening ceremony will be on Thursday, November 6 at 5:00 PM in the Mozarteum.
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Looking back at the workshop New Readings of Holocaust Testimony 20–21 October 2025, The Institute for Czech Literature, Prague
The event offered an inspiring space for exchanging experiences among experts from different disciplines and showcased new ways to connect historical research with technological innovation.
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Voices – Letters from the Holocaust 29 October 2025
The webinar “Voices – Letters from the Holocaust” introduces an innovative audiovisual exhibition that gives life to personal stories of Moravian Holocaust victims through their surviving correspondence.
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Jews from Denmark in Terezín 27 October 2025, 6:00 pm, Auditorium OVK, Maiselova 15, Prague 1, 3rd floor
Invitation to a lecture by Silvie Goldbaum Tarabini, who will look at Terezín through the eyes of the Danish prisoners.
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EHRI has joined IHRA as a PIP EHRI-ERIC has officially joined the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) as a Permanent International Partner.
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Far from Prague. The Holocaust in Moravia ꟾ Lecture by Benjamin Frommer Invitation to a lecture by American historian Benjamin Frommer, who will explore the divergent paths of Moravia’s Jews and discuss possible causes for the differences compared to Bohemia and Prague.
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New blogpost ꟾ Revealing Romanian Holocaust History In the latest EHRI Document Blog post, Hailey Dilman-Sharon and Greta Barak explain how connecting the microarchives of Matatias Carp and Wilhelm Filderman can help complete our understanding of the history of the Holocaust in Romania.
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EHRI-ERIC Call for Applications ꟾ Conny Kristel Fellowship Programme 2025 Fellowships provide access to key Holocaust-related archives and collections, as well as expertise in archives and digital humanities.
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New blogpost ꟾ Significance of Animal-inspired Toys and Jewelry during the Holocaust Animal-shaped toys and jewelery provided emotional support to their owners during the persecution, but they were also used in underground activities. Read more in Anna Batzeli’s post on the EHRI Document Blog.
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Lecture of Dr. Janine P. Holc Invitation to a lecture by Dr. Janine P. Holc, Professor of Political Science: The Weavers of Trautenau, Jewish Female Forced Labor in the Holocaust from the series “New Views and Sources on the History of Holocaust”.
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Conference ꟾ Transformations of Shoah Trauma in Post-2000 Literatures Invitation to the international academic conference “Transformations of Shoah Trauma in Post-2000 Literatures”, which will take place on 5 and 6 November 2025 at Palacký University in Olomouc.
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Lost Prague. The Jewish Community Under Nazi Rule The presentation will take place on Saturday, June 7, from 1:45 PM as part of the Science Fair in Prague’s Letňany. We will present the MemoMap Prague web application in detail here.
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Lecture of Dirk Rupnow Lecture of the German historian Dirk Rupnow: Post-Nazism – Postcolonialism – Post-Migration: The Current Debate on Holocaust Memory will take place as part of the lecture series organised by the Jewish Museum Prague and EHRI-CZ “New Views and Sources on the History of Holocaust “ on 29th May, at 7pm, at the Auditorium OVK, Maiselova 15, Praha 1, 3rd floor.
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CfP ꟾ Workshop New Readings of Holocaust Testimony Workshop of EHRI-CZ, GWZO, and the Malach Center for Visual History will focus on how new (especially linguistic) technologies are transforming historical research.
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My Moravian Family Heritage ꟾ Series of Public Discussions During the week of May 19-23, Mehrin is organizing a series of public discussions with Ann M. Altman Ph.D. entitled My Moravian Family Heritage.
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The Desire to Live ꟾ The (Un)Ordinary Story of František Färber from Kroměříž The exhibition shows drawings inspired by the life of František Färber, a Holocaust survivor from Kroměříž.
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Presentation of Book by Andrea Löw Presentation of book by Andrea Löw: „Always with one foot in the grave“ – Experiences of German Jews. The presentation is part of a series organized by the Jewish Museum in Prague and the Czech Node of the European Holocaust Research Institute (EHRI) called “New Views and Sources on the History of Holocaust”.
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Conference ꟾ White Places of Jewish Moravia and Vienna The conference “White Places of Jewish Moravia and Vienna” will take place on Sunday, April 6, 2025, at MUNI, Komenský náměstí 2. (Sir Roger Scruton Hall).
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Eva Janáčová's lecture ꟾ Spa Antisemitism Invitation to the second lecture of the lecture series organized by EHRI-CZ and the Jewish Museum Prague.
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Lecture EHRI-CZ ꟾ Documentation Action in Prague (EHRI online edition) Invitation to the lecture New Views and Sources on History of Holocaust (part of the lecture series organized by EHRI-CZ and the Jewish Museum Prague).
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Unlocking Holocaust Testimony ꟾ EHRI-CLARIN Datathon Workshop The Hands-on workshop will take place on 26-27 February 2025 at the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest.
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EHRI PRESS RELEASE | EHRI Becomes an ERIC to Secure the Future of Holocaust Research The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) was inaugurated as a permanent European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) during a ceremony at the Polin Museum in Warsaw.
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EHRI-CZ Seminar | Databases of the Persecuted | New Perspectives on Holocaust Research, Education, and Commemoration The two-day EHRI-CZ seminar focused on assessing the current state of, and critically reflecting on, the documentation of the names and fates of people who were persecuted during the Holocaust in the Czech lands and Central and Eastern Europe.
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Podcast Episode | Uncovering Hidden (Hi)stories The final episode of the third series of the EHRI podcast takes a step back to look at micro-archives in a more general sense. In keeping with our theme, however, we also focus on an object that teaches us more about the Holocaust.
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Call for Papers | The Quantitative Turn in Holocaust Research Article proposals can be submitted to Eastern European Holocaust Studies in English or Ukrainian at eehs@degruyter.com to the editors.
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Victim Databases | New perspectives on Holocaust research, education and remembrance Seminar of the Czech node of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI).
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“I Loved Him as a Father” | The Silences of Hiding-Related Sexual Violence If This Is A Woman – EHRI Document Blog Series on Gender Studies and Holocaust History.
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EHRI Webinar 25 Sep | Analyzing Early Holocaust Testimonies with Digital Tools The webinar “The Future of the Past: Analyzing Early Holocaust Testimonies with Digital Tools” will discuss the key aspects of the “Digital Lens” project, beginning with an overview of our research approach and highlighting the most significant findings.
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Latest EHRI Blogpost | Uncovering Local Hungarian Jewish Histories The latest EHRI Document Blogpost, written by former EHRI fellow and Oxford Doctoral Candidate Barnabas Balint, identifies a specific genre of local history source – Hungarian Jewish community history books.
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Call for Applications EHRI Workshop in Poland | Holocaust Places and Spaces as Data With the growing interest in Holocaust geographies, researchers, projects and/or educators increasingly work and struggle with data representing the places and spaces of Holocaust history.
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Call for Applications | EHRI Seminar Holocaust and Exile November 4 - 7 2024 | German Exile Archive 1933-1945 | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2024.
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Next EHRI Webinar | June l Digitising Greek-Jewish Social Networks in Auschwitz-Birkenau Since the mid-1980s, the structure of all major audiovisual Holocaust archives has rested on the conceptual triangulation of ’testimony’, the ‘witness’, and ‘survival’. The audiovisual testimony becomes the organising unit of the digital Holocaust archive and thus determines its serial logic.
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New Yiddish Documents in Early Holocaust Testimony Edition EHRI launches a new series of survivors’ testimonies recorded before 1960. The second EHRI Online Edition, the Early Holocaust Testimony, has been expanded by the unique documents written in the Yiddish language.
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Next EHRI Webinar 20 March | Societies under German Occupation EHRI Webinar | 20 March 2024 | 3 PM CET | On Zoom During the Second World War, approximately 230 million people in 27 countries lived under German occupation.
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Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources Paper submission deadline 28 February 2024. Testimonies stand as the primary source of information that describe the Holocaust, offering first-hand accounts and personal narratives of those who experienced it.
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Children of Antonín Kalina | Exhibition The exhibition will take place from February 8, 2024 to June 30, 2024 in the synagogue in Třebíč.
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New Date EHRI Webinar, 7 February | The Digital Remembrance Landscape of Austria The Digital Memory Landscape Austria (DERLA) is a documentation and education project. It documents the places and signs of remembrance of the victims and places of terror of National Socialism in Austria and aims at a critical examination of National Socialism and fascism and the remembrance of them.
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Call for Applications EHRI Partner US Holocaust Memorial Museum | 2024 Annual Seminar on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust The 2024 Annual Faculty Seminar on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust will examine the profound and painful questions the Holocaust and its aftermath raise for Jews and Christians in regard to their texts and traditions.
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Call for Applications | Alfred Landecker Lecturer Program 2024 The Alfred Landecker Foundation is pleased to invite applications from highly qualified postdocs in the humanities and social sciences, for a full-time lecturer program set to begin on October 1, 2024.
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Call for Participants | Mapping the Holocaust, UK Universities Workshop In examining the routes taken by people, objects, and ideas during and after the Holocaust, this workshop highlights the connections and diversions (geographically, temporally, topically, etc.) when attempting to ‘map the Holocaust’.
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Preserving Memory. Holocaust Monuments and Memorials in Central Europe. This international conference will focus on the expert evaluation of the topic of Holocaust monuments and memorials in Central Europe.
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Interdisciplinary perspectives and personal micro-stories enrich Holocaust research Tragic events framed the four-day international conference on Holocaust research took place in November 2023 in Prague. Due to the war, researchers from Israel could not participate in the long-planned Lessons and Legacies event.
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Call for Applications CLARIN-EHRI Workshop | "Natural Language Processing Meets Holocaust Archives" This interactive, hands-on workshop is a cooperation between two transnational European research infrastructures, bringing language technology together with Holocaust archives and data
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Deadline for applications for Conny Kristel Fellowships 2023 Fellowships provide access to key Holocaust-related archives and collections, as well as expertise in archives and digital humanities.
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Wartime Paperwork: How Citizens Navigated Soviet Bureaucracy During and After World War II Tobias Walsh’s article in a series on the Holocaust in Ukraine outlines how Soviet Jewish citizens exploited loopholes in the Soviet bureaucracy to negotiate their position in society.
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EHRI launches Geospatial Repository By providing access to data on Holocaust-related places and spaces, the EHRI Geospatial Repository facilitates research focused on spatial and geographical approaches.
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