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

A Research Visit to the Bergen-Belsen Memorial Archive

In September 2026 Juliane Niklas visited the Bergen-Belsen Memorial Archive to do research on diaries.

Finding Erna – the search for an anonymous author of a Holocaust diary

Luise Nippert's fascinating story of discovering the author of an anonymous Holocaust diary in the USHMM collection.

July 2026

Andrea Löw and Juliane Niklas focused on identifying diaries at the Center for Research on Antisemitism in Berlin.

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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

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"