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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News

The Beginning of the H-DIARIES Project

Diaries at the Memorial

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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Blog

May 2026

Abbey IMEC

In May 2026, the H-Diaries team gathered for a two-day working meeting at the Institut mémoires de l’édition contemporaine (IMEC) near Caen.

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Archival Research

April 2026

Wiener Holocaust Library

Sarah Gruszka and Marie Moutier-Bitan carried out two research stays at the Wiener Holocaust Library in January 2026 and April 2026.

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Call for Diaries

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

Diary of Berthold Rudner

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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