Project description
Transnational research into Europe’s darkest chapter in history
Research into the Holocaust continues, to be reread and refined by the new generations. For Europeans to understand this shared past, the endeavour must not be confined to national borders. The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) was launched in 2010 to facilitate transnational research, commemoration and education and fight fragmentation by connecting sources, institutions and people. The goal of the EU-funded EHRI-3 project is to deepen the integration of Holocaust archives, developing protocols and tools that will unveil hidden sources for Holocaust research. Moreover, it will introduce new transnational approaches to the study of the Holocaust, demonstrating how a humanities research infrastructure can inform societal discourse in areas such as antisemitism, xenophobia and cultural tolerance.
Objective
The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure’s (EHRI) mission is to overcome widespread dispersal of Holocaust sources. EHRI is an advanced community comprising 23 partners from 17 countries across Europe, Israel and the United States. It is an inter-disciplinary community spanning Holocaust research, archival sciences and the digital humanities. In two previous Integrating Activities, EHRI has integrated an unprecedented amount of information about dispersed Holocaust sources in an online Portal, developed tools to contextualise, analyse and interpret such sources, and set new impulses with regard to inter-disciplinary and trans-national research. EHRI’s past achievements have been recognised, not least by European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) who adopted EHRI on its 2018 Roadmap.
The aim of the EHRI-3 project is to move decisively beyond the achieved state-of-the-art. In particular, while EHRI has already integrated the holdings of the major Holocaust RIs, much valuable source material that is held by small local and micro-archives is currently inaccessible to the research communities. EHRI-3 will develop protocols and tools that allow the open up of hidden sources for Holocaust research. EHRI-3 will further enable new trans-national approaches to the study of the Holocaust by developing innovative layers across dispersed sources that connect thematically related, but physically dispersed, collections. It will greatly enhance its access provisions, and integrate new communities – local research and archive networks, universities, researchers working in closely related fields – into its network. Although EHRI is geared towards scholarly communities, the Holocaust is deeply rooted in the development of European societies. EHRI-3 will continue to be a showcase of how a humanities RI can inform societal discourse in areas such as antisemitism, xenophobia, non-discrimination and religious and cultural tolerance.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
1011 JV AMSTERDAM
Netherlands
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Participants (24)
1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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182 00 Praha
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91034 Jerusalem
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80636 Munich
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WC2R 2LS London
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811 03 Bratislava
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2800 Mechelen
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WC1B 5DP London
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020052 Bucharest
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1010 Wien
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75004 Paris
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
00 090 Warszawa
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20024 2126 Washington Dc
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34454 Bad Arolsen
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56075 Koblenz
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78153 Le Chesnay Cedex
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00 330 Warszawa
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20125 Milano
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546 36 THESSALONIKI
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01309 Vilnius
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1075 Budapest
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79005 Lviv
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110 01 Praha
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10557 Athens
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