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EHRI @ehri-project.eu · 2d

EHRI Partner @ushmm.bsky.social | the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is pleased to invite nominations for a new #publication program: New #Research in #Holocaust Studies. It seeks to make cutting-edge Holocaust studies scholarship accessible to a broad audience. www.ushmm.org/research/pub...

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EHRI @ehri-project.eu · 6d

EHRI has officially joined the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) as a Permanent International Partner, an important step in both organizations’ shared mission to preserve, protect, and make accessible Holocaust archival materials worldwide. www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-eric-jo...

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EHRI @ehri-project.eu · 13d

How do we encourage the next generation of Holocaust researchers?
Read the 4 important steps in the IHRA Newsletter.
mailchi.mp/holocaustrem...

EHRI @ehri-project.eu · 13d

#JOBAlert | 1 day left to apply for a great vacancy @ehri-uk.bsky.social. EHRI-UK is seeking a highly motivated Project Assistant with strong research skills and attention to detail to support the UK Director in the day-to-day running. www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-uk-job-...

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EHRI @ehri-project.eu · 16d

Call for Papers | Lessons and Legacies 2026!
HEFNU @hefnu.bsky.social at 50: Contexts, Connections, and (Dis)Continuities
Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust XVIII
Chicago, 12-15 November 2026
Deadline 15 December 2025
hef.northwestern.edu/lessons-and-...

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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 16d

In 1943, on the occasion of Rosh Hashanah, Margarete Seeligmann wrote this poem whilst imprisoned in Theresienstadt. This account is part of the Library's early eyewitnesses to the Holocaust collection

Explore more testimonies via our online archive #WienerDigitalCollections 🔗 buff.ly/GIAC5O9

A scan of a typed poem written in German, in the archive of the WIener Holocaust Library

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 16d

22 September 1932 | Czech Jewish girl, Vera Taglicht, was born. As a refugee she went to Norway.

She was deported to #Auschwitz with his brother Tibor in March 1943. Tibor was selected as able to work. He asked to stay with his sister. They were both murdered in a gas chamber.

A vintage black-and-white portrait of a girl wearing glasses and a light-colored hat.

A vintage black-and-white portrait of a young boy giving a gentle smile and wearing a checkered shirt.

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Sobibor Foundation - Stichting Sobibor @sobibor.org · 16d

What an incredible week! After visiting the Jewish Historical Institute and the Ringelblum Archive, our youth are now working on their final assignment for the chance to win the Jules Schelvis Youth Award. Mark your calendars—we're planning a new youth trip for next year!

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EHRI @ehri-project.eu · 22d

Holocaust testimony is AI litmus test, and it fails news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

Holocaust testimony is AI litmus test, and it fails | Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell historian argues in a new paper that human historians are vital to capture the emotional and moral complexity behind world events.

news.cornell.edu

EHRI @ehri-project.eu · 22d

EHRI-ERIC 📣 Call for Applications 📣 | Conny Kristel Fellowship Programme 2025
CK Fellowships include a stipend towards housing and living expenses and access to the host institution.
Short stay fellowships in AT, BE, CZ, DE, NL, PL, RO and UK. Apply before 28 Sep! www.ehri-project.eu/conny-kriste...

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EHRI @ehri-project.eu · 27d

EHRI-CZ Tonight | @ehri-cz.bsky.social organises a lecture by Benjamin Frommer:
"Far from #Prague. The #Holocaust in Moravia"
In English and Czech at the Maisel Synagogue in Prague.
The lecture is a part of a series organised by the the Jewish Museum Prague and EHRI-CZ.
www.ehri.cz/en/services/...

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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 27d

As a registered charity, we need to raise just under £1,000,000 per year in order for us to be able to complete our vital work.

No matter how large or small, your support makes a difference.

Find out how you can help us to put our collection at the service of the future 🔗

Donate - The Wiener Holocaust Library

As an independent charity we need your help to continue our vital work.

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EHRI-UK @ehri-uk.bsky.social · 27d

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...

Work With Us - The Wiener Holocaust Library

Find out about our employment opportunities

wienerholocaustlibrary.org

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Institut für Zeitgeschichte München−Berlin @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social · Sep 2

EHRI schreibt Stipendien für Projekte zur Holocaust-Forschung aus - Bewerbungen sind noch bis zum 28. September möglich: www.ifz-muenchen.de/aktuelles/ar...

EHRI @ehri-project.eu · Jul 30

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...

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EHRI @ehri-project.eu · Sep 2

The new issue of Memoria magazine has been published, ed. by @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social.
Inside:
🔹 Sinti & Roma Genocide Remembrance Day
🔹 82nd anniversary of the prisoners' revolt at Treblinka II
🔹 ‘Expansion and Redesign of the Gusen Memorial’
🔹 And more...
viewer.joomag.com/memoria-en-n...

Memoria [EN] Nr 95

Inside: - Sinti & Roma Genocide Remembrance Day. 81st anniversary of the liquidation of the Roma camp in Auschwitz - 82nd anniversary of the prisoners' revolt at Treblinka II extermination camp - Pane...

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · Sep 1

1 September 1890 | A Hungarian Jew, Sándor Stern, was born in Veszprém.

In 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

A man smiling behind a rustic wooden gate, surrounded by a flock of chickens on a farmyard.

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Majdanek Museum @majdanekmuseum.bsky.social · Sep 2

02.09.1924|Polish Jewish woman Regina Zieliński (née Feldman) was born in Siedliszcze. She was brought to SS-Sonderkommando #Sobibor in December 1942. Regina escaped in October 1943, survived the #Holocaust, and in 1949 moved to Australia. Watch her testimony: www.youtube.com/watch?v=43lk...

Relacja Reginy Zieliński

YouTube video by Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku

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EHRI @ehri-project.eu · Sep 1

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...

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Parkes Institute @parkesinstitute.bsky.social · Aug 28

Check out this new piece by our research fellow Emily-Rose Baker on Auschwitz-Birkenau’s new digital camp replica!
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@theconversationuk.bsky.social
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The problem with Auschwitz-Birkenau’s new digital camp replica

While the virtual site may digitally preserve and encourage historically rooted depictions of the camp, it cannot ensure ethical engagement with the Holocaust.

theconversation.com

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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · Aug 29

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

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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · Sep 1

The Wiener Library opened in London #OnThisDay in 1939.

Following the November Pogrom of 1938, also known as Kristallnacht, Alfred Wiener prepared to bring his collection to the UK. It arrived the following summer and opened on this day in 1939, at the time as the Nazis invaded Poland...

A black and white photograph of the Wiener Library at its location on Manchester Square, taken in the 1950s

A black and white photo of staff at the Wiener Library standing on the balcony of their building in manchester square, taken in the 1950s

A black and white photo of the interior of the Wiener Library on Manchester Square, taken in the 1950s. A librarian can be seen working at a desk surrounding by bookshelves

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Arolsen Archives @arolsenarchives.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thanks to our #StolenMemory volunteers, we returned photos to the family of Michael Ajster – a victim of Nazi persecution – in Slovenia. About 2,000 envelopes with personal belongings still wait to be returned. Explore the map of their owners’ birthplaces and last residences: aroa.to/map

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EHRI @ehri-project.eu · Aug 26

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...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwypk5g4l7vo

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hana martin @nitramanah.bsky.social · Aug 25

"The testimony by Gelbelman and the documentation by Carp are not just fragments of memories: they are part of a larger struggle to document and preserve the history of the Holocaust in Romania. Two of the most important actors involved in that struggle were Wilhelm Filderman and Matatias Carp."

EHRI @ehri-project.eu · Aug 25

EHRI Document #Blog | Fragmented Collections: Connecting the Dots Between the Filderman-Carp Archives and Reveal the History of the Holocaust in #Romania
By Hailey Dilman-Sharon and Greta Barak
Scattered collections are being pieced together and unlock histories.
blog.ehri-project.eu/2025/07/31/f...

Fragmented Collections: Connecting the Dots Between the Filderman-Carp Archives

In a filmed testimony with Yad Vashem, Holocaust Survivor Ester Gelbelman recalls what happened to her and her family in late December 1941. She says in her testimony, while fighting back tears, “They...

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EHRI @ehri-project.eu · Aug 25

EHRI Document #Blog | Fragmented Collections: Connecting the Dots Between the Filderman-Carp Archives and Reveal the History of the Holocaust in #Romania
By Hailey Dilman-Sharon and Greta Barak
Scattered collections are being pieced together and unlock histories.
blog.ehri-project.eu/2025/07/31/f...

Fragmented Collections: Connecting the Dots Between the Filderman-Carp Archives

In a filmed testimony with Yad Vashem, Holocaust Survivor Ester Gelbelman recalls what happened to her and her family in late December 1941. She says in her testimony, while fighting back tears, “They...

blog.ehri-project.eu

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