The Global and European Studies Institute at the University of Leipzig and the Foundation
"Remembrance, Responsibility and Future" will provide up to 30 travel grants for participation
in the International Forum 2011 of GESCHICHTSWERKSTATT EUROPA on "1941: German
War of Extermination in Ukraine and its Acteurs".

The International Forum is part of the programme GESCHICHTSWERKSTATT EUROPA
initiated by the German Federal Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future"
(EVZ). Applicants should be between 18 and 35 years of age. English will be the language spoken in lectures, seminars and during the excursions.

For more details see:

Summer School 2011

On 27 June - 22 July 2011, at the Center for Urban History in Lviv, the second summer school dedicated to Jewish history and culture of East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries will take place.

Invited to participate in the summer school are higher education and post-graduate students, as well as young researchers. These include historians, sociologists, culturologists and representatives from other humanitarian studies who are not necessarily focused on Jewish history, but who want to deepen their knowledge of this field.
Detail: www.lvivcenter.org

Research-Methodical Seminar
"History of the Holocaust on the territories of Western Ukraine and Poland"

Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies in cooperation with Belzec Memorial Museum and Majdanek National Museum (Poland) and under the support of American Jewish Committee and Claims Conference are holding on 14-20 August 2010 a research-methodical seminar for Ukrainian secondary school teachers of history and humanities "History of the Holocaust on the territories of Western Ukraine and Poland".
The seminar consists of lectures and discussions accompanied with visits to memorial sites of the Holocaust in Western Ukraine and Eastern Poland. Its main focus lies in history and culture of Polish and West-Ukrainian Jewish communities before and during WWII.
The seminar will start in Lviv (Ukraine) and proceed to Lubin, Krakow (Poland).

Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies
announces for August 2010
EDUCATIONAL-METHODICAL SEMINAR ON THE HOLOCAUST IN UKRAINE

Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies is planning in cooperation with Yad Vashem (Jerusalem) a regional educational-methodical seminar on the Holocaust history and education in Ukraine. The seminar set for August 2010 aims at Ukrainian secondary school teachers of history and humanities. The course will take form of lectures, discussions, workshops, guided tours and discussions covering various aspects of the Holocaust in Ukraine and Europe, namely: totalitarian regimes (firstly those of Nazi and Bolsheviks) and their policies towards Jews; Nazi genocide of Jews; resistance movement; Ukrainian-Jewish relations in the interwar period and during the Holocaust; ideology of Nazi anti-Semitism etc.
The seminar will take place on 22-23 August 2010 in Kremenets. Application deadline - 1 August 2010.
Participants of the regional educational-methodical seminars of 2010, who aim to continue or start Holocaust education in their educational establishments, offering their own research and methods on teaching various aspects of this topic, will be invited to qualification seminar at the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.

Annual ICHEIC Forum in Jerusalem

The Annual ICHEIC Forum in Yad Vashem will take place on 14-17th February 2010. During the Forum a wide range of topics pertaining to Holocaust education will be examined to ultimately work towards the creation of an active network of educators contributing to the Holocaust education in Europe. Participants in the ICHEIC Forum are European representatives of institutions working in the field of Holocaust education, who have the opportunity for discourse during discussions and in an exchange of ideas.

YAD VASHEM The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance
The International Institute for Holocaust Research
Call for Papers
International Holocaust Conference
Hiding, Sheltering and Borrowing Identities
as Avenues of Rescue During the Holocaust
19-21 December 2010

Within the framework of the international scholarly conferences on the Holocaust organized by Yad Vashem since 1968, the International Institute for Holocaust Research - Yad Vashem will convene a conference on the "Hiding, Sheltering and Borrowing Identities as Avenues of Rescue During the Holocaust", which will take place from 19 to 21 December 2010. The Institute welcomes pertinent application proposals for individual papers presenting new and unpublished research.
We welcome proposals that address the following issues:
- Motivations for giving shelter: ideology, theology, monetary rewards, etc.
- Organizing hiding and sheltering: individuals and networks; the role of churches and church organizations; underground networks etc.
- Geographical aspects of hiding and sheltering
- Circumstances and life in hiding and borrowed identity: daily life through the prism of diaries and literary and art works, expectations for the future of people in hiding, gender ssues
- German and collaborationist units for the detection of Jews in hiding
- German policies of punishment for giving shelter as reflected in judicial and other records
- Comparison of Jews in hiding with others (resistance fighters, forced labor evadors, downed allied pilots, etc.)
- The hiding phenomenon - its commencement and duration
- Post-war representation of the hiding phenomenon in art - literature, cinema, painting
- The "Righteous among the Nations" commemorative category - its meaning and its public and moral standing

About Yad Vashem and the International Institute for Holocaust Research
Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, is located on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem, and was established in 1953 by an act of the Knesset - the Israeli parliament - in order to enshrine and preserve the memory of the six million Jews annihilated by Nazi Germany, and the thousands of flourishing Jewish communities destroyed in the process. Yad Vashem is the monument of a nation's grief. Apart from its role as a commemorative institution, Yad Vashem is recognized as an academic center that specializes in Shoah research and education.
The International Institute for Holocaust Research - Yad Vashem was formally established in the 1993. It inherited a research and publication legacy dating back to the establishment of Yad Vashem. The Institute is active in the development and coordination of International research; the planning and undertaking of scholarly projects; the organization of symposia, conferences, and seminars; the fostering of cooperative projects among research institutions; financial and academic support for scholars and students of the Shoah; offering MA, PhD and postdoctoral fellowships, and publishing academic research, documentation, conference anthologies, diaries, memoirs, and albums about the Shoah.

Location
The conference will take place at Yad Vashem on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem, Israel.

Submission procedure
All application materials must be submitted in English or Hebrew and received by the Institute no later than Monday, 15 March 2010. An application consists of:
- Completed application form
- A 400-word abstract proposal
- Curriculum Vitae
- Short academic biography (15-20 lines)
The application should be sent as email attachments to eliot.nidam@yadvashem.org.il or faxed to (972)-(0)2-6443479.

Acceptance Participants will be selected and notified by Thursday, 13 May 2010.

Requirements
The conference will be conducted in English and in Hebrew with simultaneous translation. A copy of the lecture either in Hebrew or English must be received by the Institute no later than Wednesday, 1 December 2010.

The application deadline is Monday, 15 March 2010. Please send application submissions to:
Eliot Nidam Orvieto
The International Institute for Holocaust Research
Yad Vashem
P.O. Box 3477
91034 Jerusalem
Israel eliot.nidam@yadvashem.org.il Fax: 972-2-6443-479