Join us on 1st October for the launch of Between Life and Death: Stories of Rescue during the Holocaust, an international exhibition presented by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity. Book your place now: holocaustcentrenorth.org.uk/events/

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📣 Save the date! The 2026 Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture will take place once again at Gresham College, and will be delivered by esteemed historian Professor Zoë Waxman... buff.ly/xZtKmwR

A great series of events coming up from @bisa-bkk.bsky.social, including: 'German, Jewish, British? Histories of Exile and Emigration' by Jan Rüger @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, 4th November 6.30-8pm in person, register here: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/german...

🗝️ Are you taking part in this year's Open House Festival? Drop by the Library on Tuesday 15 September to see our exhibition, visit our Reading Room, and to speak to our knowledgeable staff about our vital work. You can add the Library as a stop via the Open City website buff.ly/c2qcBHM

Wiener Holocaust Library

The Wiener Holocaust Library is one of the world’s leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust. From 1939 to 1945, 20 million individuals were exploited as slave and forced labourers by the…

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🚨CFP: BIAJS Annual Conference at @universityofleeds.bsky.social, 28-30 June 2027 Submit proposals on the theme "Rethinking Pluralism and Peripheries in Jewish Studies” by 1 December! biajs.co.uk/2026/09/09/c...

CfP for BIAJS Annual Conference 2027, ‘Rethinking Pluralism and Peripheries in Jewish Studies’

British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference Call for Proposals Conference Theme: “Rethinking Pluralism and Peripheries in Jewish Studies” Dates: 28th to 30th June, 2027 Venue…

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Leo Baeck Institute London is seeking an experienced Librarian & Archivist to take responsibility for the development, organisation and accessibility of its specialist library and archival collections. More info and how to apply: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/vacancies/li...

Job Vacancy: Librarian & Archivist | Leo Baeck Institute London

Leo Baeck Institute London

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Leo Baeck Institute London is seeking an experienced Librarian & Archivist to take responsibility for the development, organisation and accessibility of its specialist library and archival collections. More info and how to apply: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/vacancies/li...

We are pleased to announce the launch of the 2026-27 EHRI-UK National Research Fellowships! ⏳ Applications close on 2 October 2026. Further information, including details on how to apply, are available here www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-fell.... Please share widely within your research networks.

Listen to the new @ehri-project.eu podcast episode which explores the story of Hans Braun, a German Sinto who survived Auschwitz-Birkenau & Flossenbürg concentration camps, and his role in the struggle for recognition of the status of Sinti and Roma victims of Nazi genocide. tinyurl.com/ye25ywf4

Listen to this new episode of the @ehri-project.eu Podcast Series which tells the story of Pauline Eckstein, born in Seebronn, Germany, in 1886 to parents of Sinti background. While Pauline survived the the Sinti and Roma genocide, three of her daughters died in the camps. tinyurl.com/yn7ca2m9

Are you working on preserving the memory of the Holocaust or genocide of the Roma? IHRA Grants offer up to €30,000 for international projects that counter distortion, preserve historical facts and foster international collaboration. Deadline: 27 Sep 2026. Q&A Webinar 10 Sep. bit.ly/2026IHRAGrant

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: 2026 IHRA Grant Call: Information and Q&A. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

The IHRA 2026 Grant Call is now open! To support you in completing an application, the IHRA Permanent Office is pleased to invite you to this information session and Q&A. You will have the opportun...

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📣 Join us on 11 October for an online lecture with the winner of this year's Ernst Fraenkel Prize! Amber Nickell will be discussing her work, Brotherlands to Bloodlands: Ethnic Germans and Jews in Southern Ukraine, Late Tsarist to Postwar Free tickets: buff.ly/XcRQeBw

This photograph of a wedding, at first glance, captures a moment of joy. However, behind it lies a far more complex and painful story of a Roma family whose lives were torn apart by war and deportations to Transnistria. Find out more in a new @ehri-project.eu podcast tinyurl.com/64hf277y

EHRI is expanding! We are delighted to announce that in the first 6 months of this year, we have signed Partnership Agreements with @ushmm.bsky.social, the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies and the National Interuniversity Council of Argentina. www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-is-expa...

EHRI Is Expanding: Partnership Agreements Signed with US Holocaust Memorial Museum and Fortunoff in the US and with the National Interuniversity Council of Argentina

New Fellowship and Research Opportunities In the first six months of 2026, EHRI has negotiated and signed agreements with three important stakeholders in the field of Holocaust research. This is good ...

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A new exhibition 'A Plea for Refuge: Letters from Vienna to Belfast, 1938-39' will open at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland during September 2026. For more information visit www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-plea-for...

Listen to historian Danijel Vojak discuss the massacre of Roma and Sinti victims at Hrastina by local Croatian fascists, Ustašas, in a new episode of the @ehri-project.eu podcast seriesFor the Living and the Dead. Traces of the Holocaust . www.ehri-project.eu/podcast-epis...

You still have one week to apply for this @ehri-project.eu workshop on 'Documentation As Resistance: Methodologies for Reconstructing Early Postwar Transnational Jewish Knowledge Networks' taking place at @wienerlibrary.bsky.social 1-2 December 2026. For more information visit tinyurl.com/bdzzarke

📣 Next month we host an online book talk in cooperation with the Melbourne Holocaust Museum Fiona Kelmann will be in conversation with Dr Simon Holloway about her new book Irmgard: The Girl from Dresden, A Memoir of Survival and Legacy buff.ly/7wRZDlF

Shout out to our own @drpistol.bsky.social @ehri-uk.bsky.social, who teamed up with @britishlibrary.bsky.social last year on an essay and two videos on twentieth-century migration to Britain. Great to see these, plus their other teaching resources, now freely available at padlet.com/discovering_...

Migration to Britain, 1900-1980: teaching resources

Explore these resources to learn more about migration to Britain from 1900 to 1980, including collection items, expert articles, a short animation and timeline. Some of these resources include content...

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Deadline: 16 Aug 2026! You can still apply for this EHRI 5-day seminar at Terezín Memorial, Czech Republic, 30 Nov-4 Dec, co-organised by EHRI-AT, @ehri-cz.bsky.social, @ehri-de.bsky.social, @ehri-hr.bsky.social, EHRI-RO, EHRI-PL, @ehri-uk.bsky.social. www.ehri-project.eu/call-for-app...

This paper slip contains a declaration that a woman called Milica Glišić was removed from the 'Gypsy list'. Milica, a 25-year-old Roma with a young son, was interned in a Belgrade camp in 1941. The small note saved her life. Listen to the @ehri-project.eu podcast and learn more tinyurl.com/49yuuf2k

Join us today at 13:00 UK time for a special @ehri-project.eu webinar to mark the launch of a new series of podcasts exploring the history of the persecution of Roma during the Second World War. 💻 Join via Zoom: zoom.us/j/9453731702...

Save the date for a special @ehri-project.eu webinar to mark the launch of a new podcast series exploring the persecution of Roma during the Second World War. Join us on Wednesday 5 August at 13:00 UK time (14:00 CEST) via Zoom: zoom.us/j/9453731702...

This week’s @ehri-project.eu podcast, 'Gita's Notes for Survival', features the story of Gita Rubanenko, a teenage girl who documented the Kovno Ghetto, the murder of her family, and her deportation to Stutthof concentration camp in her 'Knizhechka', a tiny memory booklet. tinyurl.com/3zccr9b8

We are very pleased to announce that new collections descriptions for Holocaust-related material at @hartleyspecialc.bsky.social have been added to the @ehri-project.eu portal by our partners at The National Archives! Explore the new listings here: portal.ehri-project.eu/institutions...

A new season of the EHRI #Podcast is launched soon! 7 new episodes on Roma and the Holocaust. For #Roma HMD on 2 Aug, we launch during a special webinar on Aug 5, 2pm CET with 3 podcast speakers present: Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka, Milovan Pisarri and Karola Fings. www.ehri-project.eu/new-ehri-pod...

Phase two of the Schonfeld Archive project has recently come to a close. Learn about the sorts of material we treated, their challenges and the solutions we found in our latest blog buff.ly/FWhmER6

Problem-solving at scale: Schonfeld Archive Project conservation phase two

Mould-contaminated material from Phase 2 of the Schonfeld Project (MS183/898/4). The Schonfeld Archive contains the papers of Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld, a figure renowned for his work in rescuing Jew…

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In this week's featured @ehri-project.eu podcast, ‘A Paper Heart for Wanda’, we learn about Elisabeth Salomon, a prisoner of Belsen, who was brought on one of the ‘White Boats’ to Sweden, where she met Wanda Lanzer. www.ehri-project.eu/podcast-episode-paper-heart-for-wanda/

Sundown this Wednesday until nightfall on Thursday marks Tisha B'Av, a solemn time for the Jewish community that commemorates tragedies throughout history from the destruction of the First Temple to the holocaust. 📷 Memorial prayer - London School of Jewish Studies

📣 Call for Applications: EHRI Transnational Workshop | Documentation as Resistance: Methodologies for Reconstructing Early Postwar Transnational Jewish Knowledge Networks 📍 Wiener Holocaust Library, London 🗓️ 1-2 Dec 2026 ⏰ Apply by 24 Aug 2026 Details & how to apply:

Call for Applications EHRI-ERIC Transnational Workshop | Documentation As Resistance: Methodologies for Reconstructing Early Postwar Transnational Jewish Knowledge Networks

Location of event: The Wiener Holocaust Library, London 29 Russell Square, UK Date: 1-2 December 2026 Deadline for Applications: 24 August 2026 Background The years immediately following the Holocaust...

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