The consortium EHRI-AT
The |European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI)| European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) is an international infrastructure that supports and promotes Holocaust research, commemoration and education on a transnational level. |EHRI-AT| is the national node representing the Republic of Austria within this international research consortium. The national consortium is coordinated by the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI).
EHRI’s impact is primarily scientific; however, the infrastructure also pursues a broader social and political agenda. The recent rise of antisemitism, xenophobia and aggressive nationalisms in Europe and beyond demonstrate that Holocaust research is never a purely academic concern but a prerequisite for open and non-discriminatory societies across Europe and the world.
The partner institutions in EHRI-AT are:
- |Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Graz (CJS)|
- |Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW|)
- |OeAD (Programm ERINNERN:AT)|
- Institute for Jewish History in Austria (Injoest)
- |Place for Learning and Remembrance Schloss Hartheim (LGSH)|
- |University of Innsbruck (LFU)|
- |National Funds of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism (Nationalfonds)|
- |Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI)|
The EHRI portal is one of the central projects in EHRI. It is intended to provide researchers with a cross-national overview of archive material on the Holocaust. Since 2010, EHRI has identified over 2,233 archives from 63 countries and integrated information on over 37,000 collections. The need for such an infrastructure in Austria was already recognised by Simon Wiesenthal in the 1960s.
Further Information: |EHRI-AT|
