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 In 2025, EHRI transitioned from a series of time limited projects to a permanent entity in the form of a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). Back in 2010 when the first EHRI project was launched, its instigators had the vision to create a research infrastructure dedicated to transnational Holocaust research and documentation to overcome the geographical dispersal of sources and expertise that had traditionally hampered the field. Over fifteen years, and supported by successive European funding programmes, this vision was successively realised.

On 20 January 2025 the European Commission legally established EHRI as an ERIC, thereby realising the ambition of creating a permanent and sustainable European home for transnational Holocaust research and documentation. Following the inauguration ceremony in Warsaw, EHRI undertook significant administrative implementation work. in the second half of 2025
we could again turn our focus to what we do best: to provide services to our users.

Relaunching the EHRI Conny Kristel Fellowship Programme in June 2025 was a proud moment and you can find the second call in this newsletter. Our eleven national nodes started their websites, social media and above all activities. You can read more below. The EHRI Webinar Series continued and the EHRI Document Blog reached its 100th contribution. 

A new EHRI deserves a fresh design. We have been busy giving our brand an update with a modern logo, a revamped website and a better looking EHRI Newsletter, of which you can see the result here. We hope you like this version: the content has stayed the same.

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The EHRI-ERIC Team

As a fellow, you will receive a stipend towards housing and living expenses as well as reimbursement of travel costs to and from the host institution. Fellowship stays must take place before December 31, 2027, with start dates decided jointly by the fellow and the host institution. Please note that it is not possible to apply for a Conny Kristel Fellowship at an institution located in your country of residence.

In February and March, PhD candidate Benet Lehmann visited The Wiener Holocaust Library and the UK National Archives in London. We caught up with them about their research into the history of German memory culture through visual representations of Nazi-violence and iconoclasm, and how the CK Fellowship contributed to their project.

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PhD candidate Silvia Pin divided her time during her Conny Kristel Fellowship between two institutions: The German Exile Archive (part of the German National Library) in Frankfurt, and the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies.

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EHRI-BE interviewed Blandine, who was in Belgium at the CegeSoma/State Archives to conduct research for a week as part of EHRI-ERIC’s Conny Kristel Fellowship programme. 

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The Yad Vashem Biennial International Conference | December 14–16, 2026 | The application deadline is July 31, 2026.

Visual documentation – photography, film, drawings, posters, and other artistic works – is a vital historical source for understanding the period of Nazism, the Holocaust and its aftermath, as well as Jewish life in Europe prior to the Nazi rise to power.

While such visual materials are often assumed to represent objective reality, in fact they are shaped by various factors, including the creator’s perspective, the specific conditions of production, and the purpose for which they were created. As a result, visual sources provide critical insight into the experiences, perceptions, and memory of this period.

This conference on Visual Documentation of Nazism and its Aftermath invites scholars to examine the diverse ways in which visual media and documentation were produced, mobilized, and interpreted before during, and after World War II.

The blogpost written by Hanna Abakunova describes a scholar’s personal journey through Holocaust studies in Ukraine, highlighting how fragmented and dispersed archival sources shape both research challenges and methodologies.

It emphasizes the importance of transnational approaches and infrastructures for reconnecting scattered materials and enabling a more comprehensive historical understanding.

Ultimately, the text considers how engaging with this fragmentation not only complicates research but also creates new ways of thinking about memory, sources, and academic collaboration.

Image: Larysa Volovyk (1939-2023), founder and director of the first Holocaust Museum in Ukraine, established in Kharkiv in 1996.

The Conny Kristel Fellowship Programme has been offered since 2012 and supported more than 300 fellows so far, but recently there have been some changes. We speak to the EHRI-ERIC coordinator of the programme, Katharina Freise, about what’s new and what has remained the same.

First of all, the core offer remains the same: we provide in-person access to archival collections and expertise at institutions relevant to the study and documentation of the Holocaust across Europe and beyond. Since we became an independent organisation however, the network of host institutions has changed. On the one hand it has grown, we now have a network of 25 institutions and hope to welcome more in 2026, but the geographical spread has slightly decreased; the institutions are mainly located in one of our ten member countries, with the exception of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum who we welcomed back this year as an international partner. 

A fourth season of the EHRI Podcast For the Living and the Dead is expected in the autumn of 2026. The theme of the six new episodes will be Roma and the Holocaust.

You can still listen to the first three seasons of the podcast on our website or on your preferred podcast app.

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