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Beit Theresienstadt Participates in Huge Research Project to Connect European Archives
Beit Theresienstadt participates in an important comprehensive project of Holocaust research; at its core is the establishment of the technological infrastructure for connection of various European Holocaust archives. The European Union is investing in the project 7 millions Euro over four years, with the participation of 20 leading institutions dealing with Holocaust documentation and research from 13 countries. The name of the project is EHRI – European Holocaust Research Infrastructure; the participants from Israel are Yad Vashem, one of the initiators of the project, with a leading role in it and Beit Terezin.
At the center of the European research infrastructure project on the Holocaust is the establishment of a single dedicated data base, containing a list of collections now dispersed all over Europe. The database will be an encompassing source of knowledge for researchers and educators from the whole world and will serve as a guide to the various archives in Europe and in Israel and their research possibilities.
A further aim of the project is to open communication channels between experts in various areas dealing with the Holocaust – like forums for cooperation regarding the collection of names, art and music from the Holocaust, identification of photographs and more. NIOD, the Dutch institution for research of WWII, will head the project, which is financed by the Research Department of the European Union, in the framework of the program FP7, to whose budget Israel contributes.
The project started on November 16, 2010, with a ceremony in Brussels.
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