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NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies is a national and international centre of expertise for interdisciplinary research into the history of world wars, mass violence, and genocides, including their long-term social consequences. In addition, NIOD collects, preserves, and provides access to archives and collections.

Clues

On March 17, 2022, the report 'Clues. Research into provenance history and significance of cultural objects and colle...

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NIOD Rewind Podcast

In the NIOD Rewind podcast on war & violence, Anne van Mourik and Thijs Bouwknegt interview historians and other acad...

'Stop Tanks With Books': A Discussion With Mark Neville

Please join the NIOD ImageLab on April 14 at 4PM (GMT+2) for a discussion with photographer Mark Neville about his bo...

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28 April 2022

Call for NIOD Fund Junior Fellowships

The NIOD Fund calls upon young researchers from the Netherlands and abroad to compete for a junior fellowship of up to 2 months at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the acad...

26 April 2022

NIOD researchers discover proof of Syrian massacre

What do you do as a researcher when you come across video footage of a massacre that nobody else has seen? When NIOD researcher Ugur Üngör and Annsar Shahhoud, a student of the NIOD Holocaust and G...

04 April 2022

New opening hours reading room

As of April 4, 2022, it is no longer necessary to make a reservation for a visit to the reading room. From then on, new opening hours will also apply.

23 March 2022

Research Report: 'Book About Betrayal of Anne Frank Based on Assumptions and Lack of Historical Knowledge'

The claim that Jewish notary Arnold van den Bergh probably betrayed Anne Frank is based on assumptions and inadequate historical knowledge, says a team of historians, including NIOD researcher Laur...

09 March 2022

Vacancies at 'Fascism. Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies'

The open access journal Fascism. Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies (published by Brill, in cooperation with the NIOD) has two vacancies.

28 January 2022

Help us find the stories 'Behind the Stars'

On the occasion of Holocaust Memorial Day 2022, the NIOD ImageLab is launching the project "Behind the Star". This new project focuses on photographs in which people are depicted wearing the Yellow...

19 January 2022

Online presentation research results 'Independence, Decolonization, Violence and War in Indonesia, 1945-1950' on 17 February

On 17 February 2022, the results of the research programme Independence, Decolonization, Violence and War in Indonesia, 1945-1950 will be presented. Because of the current COVID-measures in the Net...

13 December 2021

Apply for an EHRI Conny Kristel Fellowship

By facilitating international access to an unprecedented range of key archives and collections related to the Holocaust as well as access to archival and digital humanities expertise, the EHRI Conn...

30 November 2021

Announcement: Book Titles Independence, Decolonization, Violence And War in Indonesia, 1945-1950

Amsterdam University Press will start publishing twelve books containing the results of the research programme Independence, Decolonization, Violence, and War in Indonesia, 1945-1950 in February 20...

14 October 2021

The Netherlands offers to host EHRI headquarters

The Netherlands offers to host and co-fund the headquarters of the permanent European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI). Dutch incumbent Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations Kajsa ...

19 May 2021

'The Westerbork film': Research, Restoration, Exhibition

On 19 May 2021, Kamp Westerbork Memorial Centre launched Gevangen in Beelden (‘Captured in images’), an exhibition about the Westerbork film made in 1944 by German-Jewish refugee and prisoner Rud...

06 April 2021

Martijn Eickhoff new director NIOD

On 1 September 2021, Martijn Eickhoff will be appointed director of NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Eickhoff is ...