The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) project, of which the Department of Digital Humanities is a leading partner, last week participated at a breakfast meeting at the European Parliament.

Hosted by MEPs Christian Ehler (Germany) and Jerzy Buzek, former president of Poland and now the Chair of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, the meeting aimed to commemorate the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp and  to showcase the work of EHRI with a view of securing EHRI’s long-term sustainability.


Rober-Jan Smits, Director General for Research and Innovation, left, and Christian Ehler, right.

‘These days, all over the world, Holocaust research is more important than ever,’ said Mr Ehler, who led the subcommittee on the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. ‘The atrocities are so extreme that people from the younger generation tend to say that it’s something from the past. (It is important to have this) documentation of this terrible shift from normality to Holocaust.’

The EHRI project, which began work in 2010, received an €8 million grant from the European Union in 2015.

Find out more on Horizon, the EU Research & Innovation magazine.