#otd : Buchenwald concentration camp (Stiftg. Gedenkstätten Buchenwald u. Mittelbau-Dora) was liberated. We still hold 4,345,878 documents from this camp, including ones that record the fate of writer Bruno Apitz, who was imprisoned in the camp for 8 years until it was liberated: collections.arolsen-archives.org/de/search/pers…

For everyone who missed the EHRI Online Lecture today with Jonathan Matthews from Yad Vashem on Photography Collections, the recording will become available later on the EHRI site. Also a 1 on 1 clinic is still available, check here ehri-project.eu/ehri-online-le…

🥳Very pleased to announce that our paper on the work carried out on the EHRI Online Editions (EHRI project) has been accepted for the Workshop on 'Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources' at LREC COLING 2024!

Last chance to register for the free EHRI Online Lecture #today at 2.30 pm CET: 'Methodological Challenges of Photography Collections and Cataloguing' with Jonathan Matthews, former Head of the Yad Vashem Photo Archives.
Online means room for more people! yadvashem-org.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

#InternationalRomaDay is a day to celebrate Roma culture & raise awareness of the issues too many Roma people still face.

The #EURightsAgency continues to work with & survey #RomaEU communities to highlight their plight.
Find out more: europa.eu/!xJY7HG

Taking photos of your loved ones in #spring ? Over 80 years ago, people like Miquel Obradors Mas were doing the same thing – but his photos were confiscated by the Nazis when they imprisoned him. Thanks to #StolenMemory , the pictures have been returned to his family.

Go abroad with a #resilienceRI #research #TNA #fellowship Universität Münster and #benefit from a team of experts in #interreligious & interdisciplinary studies, #Islam , #Orthodox #Christianity , #Judaism , #Hinduism & #Buddhism .

👉Apply here until 1 May:
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Reminder | You can still register for the first EHRI online #lecture
📸Methodological Challenges of Photography Collections and Cataloguing📷
With Jonathan Matthews, former Head of Yad Vashem Photo Archives
April 9th, 2024 at 2:30 PM CET | On zoom
yadvashem-org.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Among the victims of the National Socialists were people from many different countries. Iran, for example: The Sardari Project of the US Holocaust Museum, ایران وایر, and the Arolsen Archives seeks to teach the Iranian population about the Holocaust: arolsen-archives.org/en/news/intern…

I’m back in Warsaw with the ⁦IHRA⁩ #SafeguardingSites team. First stop after arrival was the Ringelblum Archive. Testimonies which documented the destruction of Polish Jews were hidden in a couple of milk churns like this and retrieved after the war.

A new edition of #Memoria - the online monthly magazine of the Auschwitz Memorial.

📖 It is available online or as a PDF to download: viewer.joomag.com/memoria-en-nr-…

🔹 Encyclopedia of the genocide of Sinti and Roma
🔹 'Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away' exhibition in…

A very successful workshop last week in Prague was only one step in an ongoing collaboration between CLARIN ERIC and EHRI project

It is always interesting to hear what EHRI fellows are up to. Here is Daniel-Valeriu Boboc from Romania who is staying at our partner in Berlin Das Bundesarchiv.

End of the two-day workshop of EHRI project and CLARIN ERIC about NLP and Holocaust archives in Prague. I really enjoyed the various presentations made at the workshop because it showed the vast diversity of works done with Holocaust archives.

The Austrian consortium of the EHRI project was recently founded. The National Fund is one of the founding institutions of EHRI-AT, the national consortium representing the Republic of Austria within this international research consortium: EHRI-AT website: ehri.at/en/

Explore a newly catalogued collection!

Researchers can now access a collection of papers, photographs and correspondence relating to the life and work of journalist, author and biographer, Gitta Sereny

📷 Sereny interviews Franz Stangl, former commandant of Treblinka & Sobibor

Very interesting #call from EHRI partner US Holocaust Museum, and Museum Jews in Latvia and the Center for Judaic Studies Latvijas Universitāte:
'Jewish Life in the Baltic Region Before, During, and After the Holocaust'
Date: 2-5 Sep 2024 | Location: Riga, #Latvia
ushmm.org/research/oppor…

Today marks the set off of the two-day workshop between CLARIN ERIC and EHRI project on NLP and Holocaust Archives in Prague! Thanks for having me. ACDH-CH
FWF Austrian Academy of Sciences #AustrianAuden #DH #DigitalHumanities

#OnThisDay in 1942 the first transport of French Jews arrived at Auschwitz

During the occupation approximately 80,000 Jews were deported from France. By the end of the war just 2,000 of those who were deported had survived

📷 A park with a sign reading 'Jews forbidden'

We are very pleased to present our tools for extracting information from digitised documents at the EHRI project CLARIN ERIC workshop in Prague on 27 and 28 March 2024 and their use on the archives of the Mémorial de la Shoah #Arkindex #Callico