Dr. Haim Gertner, Director Archives Division Yad Vashem, Fred Hillman Chair of Holocaust Documentation, EHRI Executive Team
EHRI and Yad Vashem: A New Model for Digital Archival Cooperation
2016 EVA/Minerva Jerusalem International Conference on Digitisation of Cultural Heritage
http://2016.minervaisrael.org.il
http://www.digital-heritage.org.il
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1. WWW.YADVASHEM.ORG
EHRI and Yad Vashem
A Model for International Cooperation between
Archives in the Digital Age
Dr. Haim Gertner
Director of the Yad Vashem Archives
Fred Hillman Chair for Holocaust Documentation
13. The Yad Vashem Archives
2004-2015:
Mapping and copying systematically
all archival material about the Shoah:
Hungary
Poland
FSU
Germany
Austria
Bulgaria, etc.
14. The Yad Vashem Archives
2004-2015:
Over 100 cooperation agreements
with leading Archives:
Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Latvia, Lithuania,
Estonia, Kazakhstan, Poland, Hungary,
Germany, Austria, Romania, Czech Republic,
Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, Slovakia, Italy,
France, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, and
more.
15. The Yad Vashem Collections
January 2016
190,000,000Documents
480,000Photographs
127,500Testimonies
2,700,000Pages of Testimony
30,000Artifacts
10,000Artworks
19. EHRI-1-2: Facts and Figures
20 Institutions
13 Countries
48 Months: 04/11–03/15
FP7
7 milion €
14 Work Packages
23 Institutions
15 Countries
48 Months: 05/15–04/19
Horizon 2020
7.9 milion €
14 Work Packages
EHRI-1: EHRI-2:
20. Participants (P)
PP
FRMemorial de la Shoah12NL
Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie
van Wetenschappen
1
AT
Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für
Holocaust-Studien - VWI
13BE
Centre d’Etudes et de Documentation
Guerre et Sociétés Contemporaines
2
BGONTOTEXT AD14CZŽidovské Muzeum v Praze3
RO
Institutul National pentru Studierea
Holocaustului din Romania “Elie
Wiesel”
15DE
Stiftung zur Wissenschaftlichen
Erforschung der Zeitgeschichte –
Institut für Zeitgeschichte IFZ
4
HU
Magyarországi Zsidó Hitközségek
Szövetsége
16UKKing’s College London5
FR
Institut National de Recherche en
Informatique et en Automatique
17IL
Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs
and Heroes Remembrance Authority
6
LT
Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono žydų
muziejus
18US
United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum
7
SKDokumentačné stredisko holokaustu19DEBundesarchiv8
PL
Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badan nad
Zaglada Zydow
20UK
The Wiener Library Institute of
Contemporary History
9
IT
Fondazione Centro di Documentazione
Ebraica Contemporanea CDEC Onlus
21DEInternationaler Suchdienst10
ELThe Jewish Museum of Greece22PL
Zydowski Instytut Historyczny IM.
Emanuela Ringelbluma
11
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EHRI and Yad Vashem
A Model for International Cooperation between
Archives in the Digital Age
Dr. Haim Gertner
Director of the Yad Vashem Archives
Fred Hillman Chair for Holocaust Documentation
Editor's Notes
In a Christian cemetery in a Polish village, located not far from Auschwitz, there is a gravestone. The gravestone is located on a mass grave designating the burial place of 45 people, victims of a death march from Auschwitz-Birkenau. Unlike many other victims of death marches, these victims received burial. The local priest, Pawel Risch, decided, for humanitarian reasons, to bury the dead people and to record their “names” – by listing the inmates' numbers that were tattooed on their arms. He asked his assistant to record the numbers on a piece of paper, and then copied them onto the gravestone that was erected.
If we attempt to decipher the numbers to discover the names behind them, we will find, for example, inmate number 43405, which had been given to an inmate named David Pastel.
David Pastel was a Polish-born Jew who immigrated to Paris before World War II. In June 1942 he was sent from the Beaune-la-Rolande transit camp on transport number 5 to Auschwitz. Shortly before the liberation, he was murdered during the death march.
How has David Pastel’s life story been restored? It was not an easy task to do: Information about David Pastel – his photos, inmate cards and the deportation lists that record his name, - is scattered among many different countries. Documentation regarding David Pastel is located in the Yad Vashem Archives in Israel and in other archives in Poland, France and Germany. This is truly a puzzle with various pieces to gather and reassemble.
The Nazis wanted not only to annihilate the Jews but also the ability to remember them. In order to know what we lost, we have to reconstruct this huge puzzle: to collect everything, an original or a copy, and to give access to all what we gathered.
How has David Pastel’s life story been restored? It was not an easy task to do: Information about David Pastel – his photos, inmate cards and the deportation lists that record his name, - is scattered among many different countries. Documentation regarding David Pastel is located in the Yad Vashem Archives in Israel and in other archives in Poland, France and Germany. This is truly a puzzle with various pieces to gather and reassemble.
This decision by Yad Vashem has dramatic ramifications: The Yad Vashem Archives, contain about 190 million pages of documentation and close to half a million photos. We have over 120,000 written, audio and video Holocaust survivor testimonies, a film collection, a large library, art and artifacts collections and academic publications. This comprises the largest collection in the world on the Holocaust.