18. Facts & figures
EHRI (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure)
Funded by the 7th Framework Programme for Research and
Technological Development (FP7) of the European Union
Duration: 48 months (2010-2014)
Coordinator: Dr. Conny Kristel (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and
Genocide Studies, Amsterdam)
Nineteen organisations (research institutions, libraries, archives,
museums and memorial sites) from thirteen countries form the EHRI
Consortium
EU financial contribution: € 7 million
www.ehri-project.eu
19. European Holocaust Research Infrastructure
The main objective of EHRI is to
support the Holocaust research
community by
1. integrating key archival
collections into a virtual research
environment (VRE)
2. encouraging Holocaust research
and investigating new
methodologies
20. Connecting Collections
This is necessary because of the fragmentation
and dispersal of archival sources, due to
geographical scope of the Holocaust
attemps to destroy the evidence
emigration of Holocaust survivors
multiplicity of documentation projects after the war
21. Stimulating Holocaust Research
Access to collection/archival descriptions
Integrated search tool
Thesaurus improvement of retrieval
Virtual research environment
Facilitating collaborative research
23. Complicated Institutions
‘Yes, I mean, if I remember … it takes, really,
at least two years to get your head round all
the sections that we have, and the way you
look for stuff over those, I don't know, six
maybe, collections, or search tools, the way
you look for stuff is so different.’
24. Search tools
‘So they [i.e. readers] don't differentiate
necessarily between the different finding aids
and then it's all one. We think of the [archive]
as different collections; they think of the
[archive] as different subjects.’
25. Hidden collections
‘But of course we’ll also inform him [i.e. a new
reader] about newer things ... and about cross
connections ... you can of course give
keywords to everything, but the best finding
aid is still the head of the archivist!’
26. Recovering the archivists’ voice for EHRI
Holocaust Researchers
ArchivistsArchives
&
Collections
EHRI ‐ VRE