The vision of EHRI is to secure seamless access to all sources and expertise from across Europe and beyond that are relevant to the study of the Holocaust. EHRI thereby highlights the relevance of Holocaust research for free and open societies with shared democratic values. EHRI approaches this vision by overcoming the geographical fragmentation of sources and expertise and by setting standards for excellence in transnational Holocaust research, documentation, education and remembrance. It continually develops and maintains a distributed, digital and human infrastructure that provides virtual and in-person access to resources and services to a diverse community of researchers from across the Humanities and Social Sciences, heritage professionals and archivists. Through its comprehensive service offer, EHRI enables scientific excellence by providing access to highly interlinked information about dispersed Holocaust sources, by supporting mobility of expertise, knowledge, methodologies and practices across geographical and disciplinary boundaries and by accelerating the digital transformation of Holocaust research and archiving. Its online and in-person training programme increases professional exchange and equips the next generation of practitioners with the skills they need to excel in the digital world. EHRI further optimises data use by promoting open, inter-operable and replicable standards and methods to ensure maximal accessibility, trustworthiness and visibility of Holocaust sources and research. Finally, EHRI integrates the most important research and archival facilities in Europe and Israel, and it seeks to increase collaboration in the domain on a global scale through a range of robust cooperation agreements with the most important international players. EHRI’s main user groups are Holocaust researchers, archivists and other heritage professionals. Holocaust research is an inherently inter-disciplinary endeavour that is approach from perspectives from across the Humanities and Social Sciences. EHRI further maintains a constant dialogues with other disciplinary fields concerned with mass violence, the systematic discrimination of non-Jewish victim groups, underlying ideologies, and political, cultural, legal and social responses. This includes research on non-Jewish victims of Nazi crimes, antisemitism research, war and conflict studies, genocide studies, postcolonial studies, memory studies, refugee and migration studies, Jewish studies as well as research on international relations, transitional justice and human rights. In addition to providing comprehensive research services, EHRI also pursues a social mission. Through its dissemination and outreach activities, it plays a vital role in the fight against Holocaust denial and distortion, racism and antisemitism, and advances Holocaust-related public policy agendas through the provision of infrastructural support and scientific expertise.