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+    weight: 1
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content/_index.cy.md

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 ---
 title: Creu Seilwaith Ymchwil Holocost Cenedlaethol y DU
 description: Croeso i Seilwaith Ymchwil Holocost y DU
+linkTitle: Home
 ---
 
 Mae gan y DU gasgliad unigryw o gofnodion yn ymwneud â'r Holocost a ffoaduriaid sy'n

content/_index.md

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 ---
 title: Creating a UK National Holocaust Research Infrastructure
 description: Welcome to the UK Holocaust Research Infrastructure
+linkTitle: Home
+
 ---
 
 The UK holds a unique collection of records relating to the Holocaust and refugees who

content/news/_index.md

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+---
+title: Latest News
+description: Latest EHRI-UK news articles
+---
+
+{{< intro >}}
+Latest news and updates from EHRI-UK.
+{{< /intro >}}

content/news/ehri-geospatial-repository/index.md

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+---
+title: EHRI Launches its Geospatial Repository
+date: 2023-06-19
+image: ehri-geospatial-repository.png
+linkTitle: EHRI Geospatial Repository
+---
+
+{{< intro >}}
+Have you ever needed to build a map of ghettos or camps for your research project? Analyse 
+distances between them or trajectories walked by prisoners? Share your datasets with others 
+in a reusable way?
+
+The new [EHRI Geospatial Repository](https://geodata.ehri-project.eu/) aims to help researchers with these and similar challenges.
+{{< /intro >}}
+
+By providing access to data about Holocaust-related places and spaces, the EHRI Geospatial Repository 
+facilitates research driven by spatial and geographic approaches. It builds on the spatial turn in the
+field of Holocaust Studies: Over the past years, the research in Holocaust geographies, as conducted by
+the [Holocaust Geographies Collaborative](http://holocaustgeographies.org/) and others, advanced new 
+perspectives and methods. Thinking through place and space helps to formulate new questions and research projects.
+
+The Geospatial Repository was developed within the EHRI-3 project in response to user needs: Our survey and 
+focus groups indicated a strong demand for better access to standardised geospatial information. It showed 
+that researchers, projects and institutions struggle to access the historical data that makes it possible 
+to build maps, enrich datasets with place information, and more.
+
+The EHRI Geospatial Repository provides researchers, projects and organisations with the means to:
+
+- store and share geodata in a standard compliant, reusable way
+- search and explore datasets based on their metadata
+- use, download and combine datasets for mapping, data enrichment or spatial analysis
+
+Currently filled with the first set of sample datasets, the Repository aims to provide access to a 
+growing scope of geospatial data relating to the Holocaust. If you are interested in using it or 
+contributing, please head to https://geodata.ehri-project.eu/.
+
+If you have any questions, please read the [documentation](http://documentation.ehri-project.eu/en/latest/geospatial/) 
+or contact us via email at [email protected].
+
+---
+
+_Below: screenshot of the repository. Cover image: [concentration camps dataset](https://geodata.ehri-project.eu/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/52302460-13fd-4914-b496-2f0230e996e1)._
+
+![EHRI Geospatial Repository](./ehri-geospatial-repository-screenshot.png)

content/news/step-1-ehri-eric-application/index.md

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+---
+title: Step 1 Application to Establish EHRI as an ERIC Submitted to the EU
+linkTitle: Step 1 EHRI-ERIC Application
+date: 2023-07-13
+image: EHRI-services-infrastructure-v01.jpg
+summary: |
+  On 13 July 2023, the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science submitted
+  to the European Union the step 1 application for EHRI, the European Holocaust 
+  Research Infrastructure, to establish itself as an European Research 
+  Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). 
+---
+
+On 13 July 2023, the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science submitted 
+to the European Union the step 1 application for EHRI, the European Holocaust 
+Research Infrastructure, to establish itself as an European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC).
+
+"With this submission, we are well on our way towards EHRI transforming itself from 
+a series of successful projects that have been running since 2010 into a permanent 
+European organization that will help secure the future of trans-national Holocaust research, 
+commemoration and education,” explains Dr. Reto Speck, Co-Director of EHRI.
+
+Shortly before the Step 1 submission, the interim General Assembly (iGA) decided 
+unanimously to approve all the necessary documents for this first part of the 
+application process. The iGA comprises of representatives of the 11 prospective 
+founding member countries of the ERIC and is the key committee that prepares and 
+evaluates documentation for the process of establishing EHRI-ERIC. EHRI started as a 
+project in 2010 and is now in its third phase with 27 partners in 15 European countries, 
+Israel and the United States. The Dutch [NIOD](https://niod.nl) Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide 
+Studies has been coordinator of the projects and the Netherlands has been chosen as the 
+hosting country of the ERIC.
+
+The European Commission will assess the Step 1 application by obtaining the views of 
+independent experts. It is expected that after 3 months, EHRI will be informed of the 
+results of the assessment. Taking into account necessary modifications, EHRI will then 
+progress to Step 2, which is a formal request to the Commission to set up the ERIC, 
+signed by all future members of the ERIC.
+
+“After approval of the European Commission, EHRI will then be ready to establish itself as 
+an ERIC,” says Reto Speck, “It is our sincere wish to launch EHRI-ERIC by January 2025, the 
+80th-anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.” 

content/news/towards-the-future-ehri-organisation/index.md

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+---
+title: "Foundations for the Future: Towards a Permanent EHRI Organisation"
+linkTitle: "Towards the Future: EHRI Organisation"
+date: 2023-06-19
+image: towards-the-future.jpg
+weight: 1
+summary: |
+  The EHRI Conference Foundations for the Future, that took place in Amsterdam on 23 May,
+    started with an impressive show of support.
+  
+
+---
+
+### EHRI Conference, 23 May 2023, Amsterdam
+
+> "It is time that Europe takes responsibility for the Holocaust"
+
+The EHRI Conference Foundations for the Future, that took place in Amsterdam on 23 May, 
+started with an impressive show of support. Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science 
+(OCW) Robbert Dijkgraaf, and Dutch State Secretary for Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS), 
+Maarten van Ooijen, Christian Ehler, Member of the European Parliament and Marileen Dogterom, 
+President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) had each recorded short 
+video messages in which they addressed the audience and spoke of the need for a permanent European 
+Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), while congratulating the project for paving the way 
+towards this goal.
+
+[Watch here](https://www.ehri-project.eu/video-messages-supporting-ehri) all 4 Video Messages for EHRI.
+
+### Hosting  country
+
+After three years of hard work, the EHRI consortium announced that it has been very successful in making 
+all the necessary preparations for EHRI to become a permanent organization in January 2025. This permanent 
+organization will be setup as an ERIC, or a European Research Infrastructure consortium, and eleven countries 
+have already committed to be part of the future EHRI-ERIC, and more are in the process of joining. The Netherlands 
+has offered and has been accepted as the hosting country for the Central Office of EHRI-ERIC which will be located 
+at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Securing the seat of the ERIC in the Netherlands has 
+been made possible thanks to generous financial support provided by the ministries of OCW and VWS. The KNAW, 
+of which NIOD is a member, has been the coordinator of the EHRI projects from the start.
+
+### Jewish neighbourhood
+
+{{< figure class="fig-right fig-float" src="martin-eickhoff.jpg" caption="NIOD Director Martijn Eickhoff" >}}
+
+The congratulatory video messages were introduced by the director of the NIOD, Martijn Eickhoff, 
+who welcomed the audience in person and added his own words. Both he and Minister Dijkgraaf mentioned 
+the somewhat uncomfortable appropriateness of the event’s location, the KNAW building the Trippenhuis, 
+which is in the centre of Amsterdam, right where 80 years ago the Jewish neighbourhood was closed off. 
+Martijn Eikchoff also stressed the necessity of safeguarding the Holocaust-related sources and keeping 
+the commemoration alive, especially now, as nationalism, antisemitism and Holocaust distortion are on the 
+rise. All other high-placed officials expressed similar views, be it from a Dutch, European, societal or 
+scientific perspective. “It is time that Europe takes responsibility for the Holocaust”, was a shared opinion, 
+expressed by Martijn Eickhoff. A permanent EHRI that offers support to Holocaust researchers worldwide is an 
+important part of this effort.
+
+
+{{< figure src="video-message.jpg" caption="Video Message from State Secretary Maarten van Ooijen" >}}
+
+### Edyta Gawron
+
+{{< figure class="fig-right fig-float" src="edyta-gawron.jpg" caption="Edyta Gawron" >}}
+
+That there is a need to stay alert became also apparent in the keynote speech by Edyta Gawron, titled 
+“Researching Holocaust History and Responding to Current Challenges”. Edyta Gawron, who is Assistant 
+Professor at the Institute of Jewish Studies at the Jagiellonian University of Poland and President 
+of the Management Board of Galicia Jewish Heritage Institute Foundation, as well as Chair of the EHRI 
+Scientific Advisory Board, works in Poland and spoke of the scientific challenges she and Polish colleagues 
+face when researching the Holocaust and writing about it openly. In Poland, new laws have made it difficult 
+to write or speak about research that indicates that Polish people were involved in any form of collaboration 
+with the Nazi occupier. Academics that dare to broach this topic, face laws suits, ostracizing or sometimes 
+even violence.
+
+### Excellent progress
+
+{{< figure class="fig-right fig-float" src="anna-ullrich.jpg" caption="EHRI Work Package Leader Anna Ullrich" >}}
+
+After these strong reminders of the importance of a permanent European Holocaust infrastructure, the conference 
+continued with more practical presentations by co-Director Reto Speck, and Work Package Leaders Anna Ullrich and 
+Michal Frankl, on how EHRI is developing from a series of projects to a permanent, European organisation. Reto 
+explained that while the mission of the permanent EHRI will be the same as the one of the previous projects, the 
+way an ERIC operates in terms of governance, finances and organisation is rather different. A lot of detailed, 
+technical work was required to draft a strong ERIC application which is now ready.  Given the excellent progress 
+that has been made, he is confident that EHRI-ERIC will be officially launched in January 2025, on the occasion of 
+the 80th-anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
+
+
+
+{{< figure class="fig-left fig-float" src="robert-jan-smits.jpg" caption="Questions from the audience, Robert-Jan Smits" >}}
+
+A permanent infrastructure will also need long-term plans and visions. Anna Ullrich talked about how a Research 
+Strategy for EHRI-ERIC is getting shape by surveying and assessing of and engaging with users. Michal Fankl showed 
+an example of an EHRI service, the EHRI Document Blog, which is a laboratory of digital research.
+
+{{< clear >}}
+
+### Existing landscape
+
+When becoming an ERIC, EHRI will join the existing landscape of permanent European Humanities Research Infrastructures. 
+The panel that started after lunch, featured Sally Chambers (DARIAH), Franciska de Jong (CLARIN) and Luca Pezzati (E-RIHS). 
+These infrastructures are servicing respectively the Arts and Humanities, the linguistics and cultural heritage communities. 
+EHRI already has  good contacts with these infrastructures, and seeks to further increase collaborative activities in the future. 
+In the panel, moderated by Tobias Blanke, the experienced participants shared the challenges they had to overcome and the 
+advantages of having an international infrastructure.
+
+
+{{< figure src="panel-research-infrastructures.jpg" 
+caption="Panel on Research Infrastructures with from left to right: Franciska de Jong, Luca Pezzati, Sally Chambers and Tobias Blanke" >}}
+
+### The future
+
+{{< figure class="fig-float fig-right" src="panel-future-ehri.jpg" 
+caption="Panel on the Future of EHRI: From left to right: Nanci Adler, Emile Schrijver, Pascale Falek, Wesley Fisher and Haim Gertner" >}}
+
+The last panel of the day was dedicated to the future: What does it mean to have a permanent Holocaust research 
+infrastructure and how can it add value to related initiatives in the field of Holocaust commemoration, education 
+and the fight against antisemitism? Four representatives of such related organisations, Wesley Fisher (Director Research, 
+Claims Conference), Pascale Falek (Policy Officer, Office EC Coordinator on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life), 
+Emile Schrijver (General Director Jewish Cultural Quarter Amsterdam, Chair of the Board of the Association of European Jewish 
+Museums) and Nanci Adler (Professor of Memory, History and Transitional Justice, NIOD and University of Amsterdam, IHRA delegate) 
+answered to questions from moderator Haim Gertner, Director International Relations at Yad Vashem.
+
+
+### Dwindling number of Holocaust survivors
+
+{{< figure class="fig-float fig-right" src="panel-remembrance.jpg"
+caption="Panel on the Future of Holocaust Remembrance, with from left to right: Nanci Adler, Emile Schrijvers, Pascale Falek and Wesley Fisher; On the screen: EHRI on ChatGPT" >}}
+
+Something that worries everyone involved in Holocaust research, education or commemoration, is the dwindling 
+number of Holocaust survivors. These people, who are direct witnesses, are passing away. Wesley Fisher of the 
+Claims Conference stressed that therefore it becomes more important than ever to safeguard testimonies and 
+Holocaust-related objects or artefacts that can tell a story as well. This is partly what Holocaust or Jewish 
+museums are now focusing on. Emile Schrijver, Director of the Jewish Museum Amsterdam, who was a scholar before 
+he became museum director, saw opportunities for museums to bridge the gap between academic research and a more 
+general audience. If often takes time for new research insights to trickle down into education or commemoration. 
+Safeguarding and new insights, education and commemoration stay vital. Nanci Adler pointed to the Russian war against 
+Ukraine which can only be understood with knowledge of the history and is a warning that “Never Again” is not a given, 
+but should be repeated with every new generation. Pascale Falek, who is working on a setting up an infrastructure for 
+research into antisemitism, also stressed the relevance of Holocaust research for today’s developments that see a rise 
+of nationalism and antisemitism.
+
+### A teenager
+
+{{< figure class="fig-float fig-left" src="reto-speck.jpg" caption="Reto Speck" >}}
+
+The last word of the day was for co-Director Reto Speck, who concluded that the conference had not only shown that 
+EHRI was well on its way to becoming an ERIC, but that there also is a definite need for a permanent European 
+Holocaust Research Infrastructure. EHRI has been active for thirteen years now, and is well on its way to reach 
+maturity by becoming a permanent European organisation in January 2025. Reto therefore compared EHRI’s current 
+status to that of a teenager: in between, sometimes difficult, but also increasingly independent and self-assured 
+and with ambitious plans for the future.
+
+
+**All images: Maarten Nauw for EHRI**
+

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+- title: Seilwaith digidol o’r radd flaenaf
   url: https://www.ehri-project.eu/
-  about: |
+  content: |
     Cynrychioli sefydliadau o fewn y DU (a Dibyniaethau'r Goron) sy'n cynnwys deunyddiau sy'n gysylltiedig ag Astudiaethau'r Holocost i greu consortiwm ymchwil cryf.
     Yn cynnig cymrodoriaethau a chyfleoedd hyfforddi i...
 
-- name: Seilwaith digidol o’r radd flaenaf
+- title: Seilwaith digidol o’r radd flaenaf
   url: https://www.ehri-project.eu/
-  about: |
+  content: |
     Cynrychioli sefydliadau o fewn y DU (a Dibyniaethau'r Goron) sy'n cynnwys deunyddiau sy'n gysylltiedig ag Astudiaethau'r Holocost i greu consortiwm ymchwil cryf.
     Yn cynnig cymrodoriaethau a chyfleoedd hyfforddi i...
 
-- name: Seilwaith digidol o’r radd flaenaf
+- title: Seilwaith digidol o’r radd flaenaf
   url: https://www.ehri-project.eu/
-  about: |
+  content: |
     Cynrychioli sefydliadau o fewn y DU (a Dibyniaethau'r Goron) sy'n cynnwys deunyddiau sy'n gysylltiedig ag Astudiaethau'r Holocost i greu consortiwm ymchwil cryf.
     Yn cynnig cymrodoriaethau a chyfleoedd hyfforddi i...
 
-- name: Seilwaith digidol o’r radd flaenaf
+- title: Seilwaith digidol o’r radd flaenaf
   url: https://www.ehri-project.eu/
-  about: |
+  content: |
     Cynrychioli sefydliadau o fewn y DU (a Dibyniaethau'r Goron) sy'n cynnwys deunyddiau sy'n gysylltiedig ag Astudiaethau'r Holocost i greu consortiwm ymchwil cryf.
     Yn cynnig cymrodoriaethau a chyfleoedd hyfforddi i...
 
-- name: Seilwaith digidol o’r radd flaenaf
+- title: Seilwaith digidol o’r radd flaenaf
   url: https://www.ehri-project.eu/
-  about: |
+  content: |
     Cynrychioli sefydliadau o fewn y DU (a Dibyniaethau'r Goron) sy'n cynnwys deunyddiau sy'n gysylltiedig ag Astudiaethau'r Holocost i greu consortiwm ymchwil cryf.
     Yn cynnig cymrodoriaethau a chyfleoedd hyfforddi i...
 
-- name: Seilwaith digidol o’r radd flaenaf
+- title: Seilwaith digidol o’r radd flaenaf
   url: https://www.ehri-project.eu/
-  about: |
+  content: |
     Cynrychioli sefydliadau o fewn y DU (a Dibyniaethau'r Goron) sy'n cynnwys deunyddiau sy'n gysylltiedig ag Astudiaethau'r Holocost i greu consortiwm ymchwil cryf.
     Yn cynnig cymrodoriaethau a chyfleoedd hyfforddi i...
 
-- name: Seilwaith digidol o’r radd flaenaf
+- title: Seilwaith digidol o’r radd flaenaf
   url: https://www.ehri-project.eu/
-  about: |
+  content: |
     Cynrychioli sefydliadau o fewn y DU (a Dibyniaethau'r Goron) sy'n cynnwys deunyddiau sy'n gysylltiedig ag Astudiaethau'r Holocost i greu consortiwm ymchwil cryf.
     Yn cynnig cymrodoriaethau a chyfleoedd hyfforddi i...
 
-- name: Seilwaith digidol o’r radd flaenaf
+- title: Seilwaith digidol o’r radd flaenaf
   url: https://www.ehri-project.eu/
-  about: |
+  content: |
     Cynrychioli sefydliadau o fewn y DU (a Dibyniaethau'r Goron) sy'n cynnwys deunyddiau sy'n gysylltiedig ag Astudiaethau'r Holocost i greu consortiwm ymchwil cryf.
     Yn cynnig cymrodoriaethau a chyfleoedd hyfforddi i...