A new national hub designed to preserve and advance Holocaust research is opening in the UK.

Part of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), EHRI-UK is a collaboration between the Wiener Holocaust Library, the Holocaust Research Institute, the National Archives and the University of Southampton.

As well as preserving existing work, the hub will also fund more transnational research fellowships and placements and connect researchers, the university said.

Dr Rachel Pistol, director of EHRI-UK and a digital historian at the university, said the work would improve understanding of the Holocaust “as well as helping to counter Holocaust denial and antisemitism”.