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EHRI and Yad Vashem

A Model for International Cooperation between

Archives in the Digital Age

Dr. Haim Gertner

Director of the Yad Vashem Archives

Fred Hillman Chair for Holocaust Documentation

Jewish Museum Prague

Yad Vashem Archives

HANS

GÜNTHER

ADLER

Prague

Jerusalem

Amsterdam

Bad Arolsen

Londo

n

Zeev Shek

Hans Günther Adler

Terezin

Givat Haim Ihud

Death March, January 1945

Yad Vashem Israel

ITS Germany

Auschwitz Museum Poland

Memorial de la Shoah France

Map and collect all sources

The Yad Vashem Archives

2004-2015: Mapping and copying systematically

all archival material about the Shoah:

Hungary

Poland

FSU

Germany

Austria

Bulgaria, etc.

The Yad Vashem Archives

2004-2015: Over 100 cooperation agreements

with leading Archives:

Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Latvia, Lithuania,

Estonia, Kazakhstan, Poland, Hungary,

Germany, Austria, Romania, Czech Republic,

Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, Slovakia, Italy,

France, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, and

more.

The Yad Vashem Collections

January 2016

190,000,000 Documents

480,000 Photographs

127,500 Testimonies

2,700,000 Pages of Testimony

30,000 Artifacts

10,000 Artworks

What is EHRI?

Horizon 2020

EHRI-1-2: Facts and Figures

20 Institutions

13 Countries

48 Months: 04/11–03/15

FP7

7 milion €

14 Work Packages

23 Institutions

15 Countries

48 Months: 05/15–04/19

Horizon 2020

7.9 milion €

14 Work Packages

EHRI-1: EHRI-2:

Participants (P)

P P

FR Memorial de la Shoah 12 NL Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie

van Wetenschappen 1

AT Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für

Holocaust-Studien - VWI 13 BE

Centre d’Etudes et de Documentation

Guerre et Sociétés Contemporaines 2

BG ONTOTEXT AD 14 CZ Židovské Muzeum v Praze 3

RO

Institutul National pentru Studierea

Holocaustului din Romania “Elie

Wiesel” 15 DE

Stiftung zur Wissenschaftlichen

Erforschung der Zeitgeschichte –

Institut für Zeitgeschichte IFZ 4

HU Magyarországi Zsidó Hitközségek

Szövetsége 16 UK King’s College London 5

FR Institut National de Recherche en

Informatique et en Automatique 17 IL

Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs

and Heroes Remembrance Authority 6

LT Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono žydų

muziejus 18 US

United States Holocaust Memorial

Museum 7

SK Dokumentačné stredisko holokaustu 19 DE Bundesarchiv 8

PL Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badan nad

Zaglada Zydow 20 UK

The Wiener Library Institute of

Contemporary History 9

IT Fondazione Centro di Documentazione

Ebraica Contemporanea CDEC Onlus 21 DE Internationaler Suchdienst 10

EL The Jewish Museum of Greece 22 PL Zydowski Instytut Historyczny IM.

Emanuela Ringelbluma 11

Archives

Research

IT

Community of Experts

Networking: 3 General Partner Meetings

General Partner Meeting, YV Jerusalem, January 2012

Networking: Major Conferences

“Public History of the Holocaust: Historical Research in the Digital Age”, Berlin, July 2013

Networking: Major Conferences

“Holocaust Documentation in Eastern Europe”, Krakow, 2014

Networking: Major Conferences

“Holocaust Documentation in Eastern Europe”, Krakow, 2014

Networking: Major Conferences

Launch of the EHRI Portal , Berlin, March 2015

Networking: Workshops for Experts

“Physical and Digital Preservation”, Yad Vashem, 2014

Networking: 9 Workshops for Experts

“Physical and Digital Preservation”, Yad Vashem, 2014

Networking: Workshops for Experts

“Holocaust Art: An Essential Tool for the Methodology of Constructing a Historical Narrative”, Yad Vashem, 2015

Networking: Workshops for Experts

“Holocaust Art: An Essential Tool for the Methodology of Constructing a Historical Narrative”, Yad Vashem, 2015

Transnational Access: The EHRI fellows

Transnational Access: The EHRI fellows

Training: Summer schools

Training: Online Course

Research Guides: Terezin, Jewish Councils

Research Guides: Terezin, Jewish Councils

User Requirements

HANS

GÜNTHER

ADLER

Prague

Jerusalem

Amsterdam

Bad Arolsen

Londo

n

Zeev Shek

Hans Günther Adler Terezin

Givat Haim Ihud

Investigating Collections: Ukraine

Investigating Collections: Greece

The EHRI Portal – Virtual Research Environment

Thesaurus

Multilingual Thesaurus for Holocaust Collections

Multilingual Thesaurus for Holocaust Collections

WWW.YADVASHEM.ORG

EHRI and Yad Vashem

A Model for International Cooperation between

Archives in the Digital Age

Dr. Haim Gertner

Director of the Yad Vashem Archives

Fred Hillman Chair for Holocaust Documentation