H-DIARIES
H-Diaries explores Holocaust diaries written across Europe, tracing personal voices of persecution, survival, and memory. The project brings together researchers from Germany and France to study these testimonies as historical and cultural documents.
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Research Stay at the Archive of the Center for Research on Antisemitism
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In July 2026 Andrea Löw and Juliane Niklas focused on identifying diaries at the Center for Research on Antisemitism in Berlin.
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The Beginning of the H-DIARIES Project
Read about the very beginning of the project at the Mémorial de la Shoah. Since 2023, Sarah Gruszka and Marie Moutier-Bitan have been working in the collections of the Mémorial de la Shoah to test the methodology.
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July 2026
Andrea Löw and Juliane Niklas focused on identifying diaries at the Center for Research on Antisemitism in Berlin.
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Please contact us if you have any information about a Holocaust Diary by a Jewish writer in a
private or archival collection during persecution.
Contact us via Mail: hdiaries.fral@gmail.com
The following archives served as a starting point for our research:
- Jewish Historical Institute (ŻIH)
- Mémorial de la Shoah
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Yad Vashem
- Ghetto Fighter's House
- Wiener Holocaust Library
Events
September 23, 2026 at 3.30pm
Webinar with Emanuel-Marius Grec on "I Am Ashamed to Be Sad": Mihail Sebastian's Journal and the Writing of Lived History"
October 14, 2026 at 3.30pm
Webinar with Ephraim Light on "Nineteen ways of looking at Ruth Mueller: Diaries in the Digital Space"
November 18, 2026 at 3.30pm
Webinar with Simon Goldberg on "The Life of a Manuscript: Time, Testimony, and Transfiguration in Avraham Tory's Yiddish Ghetto Diary"
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