Archives and Research
Safeguarding Access to Archives
For decades a significant amount of the documentation bearing on the Holocaust and its historical context has been scattered, endangered, and in many cases inaccessible. The International Holocaust...
Memory of Holocaust, Perception of Jewish Culture Heritage and Antisemitism. A qualitative comparative study in Morocco, Spain, Germany, France and Great Britain
The aim of this project was to conduct research and to compile reports on Holocaust discourses in 5 countries, followed by conferences. Recommendations from the conferences were later passed on to...
Sharing digitized Belgian Archives
The Kazerne Dossin digitized more than 800,000 documents related to the deportation and persecution of Jews and Sinti and Roma. The digitized archives shall be made available to other institutions...
Diverging fates - Travelling Circus People in Europe under National Socialism
This two-year project, with an international team of researchers, examines the histories and divergent fates of circus owners, families and performers under National Socialism. This project served as...
The relationship between the historical churches and the Jewish community in Czechoslovakia and Hungary from 1920 until the Holocaust
This project aimed to conduct comparative research in order to analyze the Christian churches' attitude in Slovakia and Hungary after the WWI and prior to the Holocaust, their contemporary reflection...
Diplomatic 'Games' over the Deportation of Jews from Macedonia
This project intends to research and shed light on the negotiations between the Bulgarian and German government at the end of 1942 that resulted in signing a treaty on the resettlement of 20,000 Jews...
International Colloquium: Bystanders, rescuers or perpetrators? The Neutrals and the Shoah - Facts, Memories, Myths and Countermyths
This project examines the attitude and reaction of the neutral countries during World War II (specifically Argentina, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey) to the Holocaust. Recent...
European Library Platform for Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust
The project aims to create a large-scale European library network aiming to develop the framework for a collaborative platform of international resources for Holocaust education in the context of...
Investigating and documenting the Roma Genocide in Eastern Europe: Collection of testimonies of survivors and bystanders
The project aims to document the Roma genocide and spread the knowledge about what happened to Roma in various countries. Within the project, interviews with Roma survivors and witnesses about...
Holocaust mechanics: deportations from the West and Roma genocide in Latvia
The project aims to raise awareness about two victims of the Nazi regime in Latvia, the Jewish community and Roma community. In the first stage research was conducted in archives, libraries and...