Ehri European Holocaust Research Infrastructure

the mission of the european holocaust research infrastructure (ehri) is to support the holocaust research community by building a digital infrastructure and facilitating human networks. ehri provides online access to information about dispersed sources relating to the holocaust through its online portal, and tools and methods that enable researchers and archivists to collaboratively work with such sources. apart from providing an online platform, ehri also facilitates an extensive network of researchers, archivists and others to increase cohesion and co-ordination among practitioners and to initiate new transnational and collaborative approaches to the study of the holocaust. ehri thereby seeks to overcome one of the hallmark challenges of holocaust research: the wide dispersal of the archival source material across europe and beyond, and the concomitant fragmentation of holocaust historiography. more than twenty organisations – research institutions, libraries, archives, museums and m