EHRI becomes ERIC to secure the future of Holocaust Research

Published on 27 January 2025

On the eve of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) was inaugurated as a permanent European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) during a ceremony at the Polin Museum in Warsaw

Among others, Minister Eppo Bruins (Education, Culture and Science) and NIOD director Martijn Eickhoff attended. EHRI will be a so-called ERIC, a European Research Infrastructure Consortium. This will secure research into the Holocaust for the future.

EHRI aims to collect public information on the Holocaust from a large number of countries and make it accessible for Holocaust research. The fragmentation of source material and information from different countries makes it difficult for researchers to find and access the information.

Multiple countries

The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) is an initiative of research centres, archives and museums from a large number of countries. EHRI was founded in 2010 as a project from NIOD and has since been coordinated by NIOD.

The new research infrastructure will unite, in addition to the Netherlands, Germany, Israel, Croatia, Austria, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and the UK. More information on the inauguration ceremony can be found on EHRI's website.

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