H2020 backs second phase of Holocaust project
A vast online Holocaust archive has gone live after receiving research funding from the European Commission.
The ‘European Holocaust Research Infrastructure’ (EHRI) project obtained nearly €8m from the Seventh Framework Programme and the new resource is the result of four years of work. The online portal brings together information about the Holocaust and World War II that was previously only available at separate institutions. The project will move into a second phase in May and will receive €8m of funding from Horizon 2020.
Attending the launch of the online portal at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Germany, Robert-Jan Smits, director general of DG Research and Innovation in the European Commission, said: “EHRI’s impressive work has given invaluable support to Holocaust researchers. I am delighted that, under Horizon 2020, the project will even expand its scope during the second phase.
“It will continue to be a ‘best practice’ model for other humanities projects in its innovative approach not only as regards data integration, management and retrieval, but also as outreach to society.”
The unveiling was also attended by Cornelia Quennet-Thielen, State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, and Sander Dekker, the Dutch State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science.
You can access the new website here. In January, Europe marked the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
